
[Unedited] John Polkinghorne with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Nature of God
Genesis 1 is a poem, isn't it? It's much more like poem than prose. People who are really wanting to be respectful to Scripture are, I think, ironically, being disrespectful, because they're not using it the right way. And that's in a sense the sadness of the creationist, so-called, position.
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