"Quite true, but ethical scientists strive to eliminate bias. Most clergy I have encountered are completely closed to notions or concepts other than what they learned in seminary."
All true, and I pretty much agree with you.
Just picking on the hyperbole. There are bad scientists.
And scientists should not be afraid of legitimate --- LEGITIMATE --- confrontation and discussion.
Note the word "Legitimate" Which does not include routinely debunked dishonest B.S. about the 2nd law of themodynamics so often heard --- (To which I respond --- see that big light in the sky? Feel the heat?)
And please note, I am a fundamentalist Christian --- converted from Jew, no less. So serious about the Bible I knowingly pissed away pretty much my whole family on conversion, and did it nonetheless.
I believe every word in the Bible. Literally.
I am also a petroleum engineer. And a geologist. I find coral reefs. In New Mexico. 15,000 feet down.
The problem is not Genesis. It is the pre-conceived agenda people read into the Bible to reach YEC and other stuff that is simply NOT IN THE BIBLE.
I agree, with the reservation that much of what we have today in Scripture concerning Creation is allegory.
I meant to ask you about this when you mentioned it in another thread. I understand how a coral reef from an ancient ocean could be located in New Mexico, but how did it get to be 15,000 feet below the surface of the earth?
I'm guessing millions of years of sediment?