Couldn’t God have created evolution? Would that solve anything?

What if the true believers could simple accept that the “7 days” story is a metaphor, since Samites or whoever the first Bible readers were had no formal education, but could understand a *day,* even one that happened in the past, and could understand that things must occur in a logical progression (US Foreign *policy* excluded) , but could not possibly be expected to understand 4.6 BILLION years – hence 7 *days* of creation.
I know, I know. The Bible is infallible. and the words. even in the translation are divinely inspired for exactly the appropriate time and context of their reading to convey the message of the Holy Spirit. And shit.Buzzkill has explained it to me:

Sock you stupid motherfucker. Yer going straight to hell. More to the point, the fucking Bible says 7 days, so it was 7 24 earth-hour days. I do not give a flying shit about the so-called fact that an earth day could not exist until day 3, or 2 at the earliest in the creation story. Also, Methuselah was 969 2005 American years old, even though the 12 month Gregorian calendar on which our society is based was not adopted until about 1582. God obviously planned on cynical Americans when he inspired the prophets 2000 years before America or the fucking calendar it uses even existed. Nimrod

The hard core religious right will not be swayed. All thiniking people can do is try to inform the vast, sane middle ground. We do have some ground to give without conceding the battle. Humor is just one way to open a dialogue.

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