That’s very encouraging to hear Marshall. I’m glad you listened to the podcast and could share so much about your wrestling with the text. I guess the big takeaway from this forum isn’t really any scientific evidence which I will certainly be studying in the near future. It’s the general idea of everyone here not simply disagreeing with parts of the Bible and cutting them out like Jefferson. It’s not even people judging God for slavery, hell, or whatever other thing you want to mention. I don’t see people looking to disprove every last verse of the Bible and trying to tear down inerrancy. I don’t see people who “just didn’t have enough faith in God to believe the Scripture.” I don’t see people who had one particular disagreement and sought ways they could repackage the Bible and make it more palatable to a 21st century audience. Overall, I see people reconciling faith and science. I see people who realize cartesian certainty is impossible in this life. I see people who actively wrestle with all of their doubts instead of bury them deep inside their psyches. It’s certainly not the impression my parents gave me of Christians in this camp.
Edit: I would add too that it’s not an inevitable domino effect to atheism either. Atheists are mad at YEC for rejecting science. They are also mad that people in the biologos EC community aren’t atheists. They view this as a preposterous marriage of faith and science and that everyone here is just holding onto a religion that nobody will believe in 100 years. In YEC, fear is a primary motivator. Fear that if God didn’t reveal his perfect Word in the Bible, why would he bother at all? I’d rather have a nuanced and slightly less simple view of Christianity then a black and white one.