Was it seven literal 24 hour days?
Literalists took a hit last week when Washington, DC's Cardinal Theodore McCarrick said that a belief in "theistic evolution" can be consistent with Christian teaching. Predictably, some are outraged. Why? If the Genesis creation accounts (Genesis 1 and 2 offer two different tellings of the creation story from two different perspectives) are literally true, then terrific. If they're not (why would God wait until day 4 to create the sun and moon if our conception of time was so critically important?), then terrific. In either scenario, believers can still embrace God as the author and finisher of life, the completion of the story. But the hostility of the either/or crowd is off-putting and does damage to our public testimony.
posted by Jeremy Del Rio @ 7/18/2005 07:36:00 PM
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