I find that entire argument to be, well, wrong. ‘We shouldn’t let science dictate how we interpret scripture.’ Why not? We read Jesus saying, ‘I am the vine’ and we don’t take it literally – we don’t think Jesus had leaves. Why not? Because we know that human beings aren’t vines. We have to use our knowledge of the world to interpret the Bible or any other text, or else the words don’t mean anything. And as it happens, science is one of the ways that we know stuff about the world.
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