Science
It should be abundantly clear that the Bible was never intended to be a rigorous scientific treatise in our modern sense. Talmage, for instance, wrote, “The opening chapters of Genesis, and scriptures related thereto, were never intended as a textbook of geology, archaeology, earth-science or man-science.” Nonetheless, many today insist on a literal reading of the Genesis, holding that the earth (or even the entire universe) was created a few thousand years ago over a 6-day (or 6,000-year) period, that there was no life or death on earth prior to this, and that species are unchanged since creation. Needless to say, these notions are at odds with modern science, and lead to the blasphemous notion that God has planted evidence to mislead us.
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