Checkpoint on the Question (Confirmed)
For expediency’s sake, I will set aside my proposed taxonomy (“Checkpoint on the Question (Proposed)”) and accept yours without question or comment.
I first came to this BioLogos Forum on June 22 asking “Who best reconciles the Bible and Evolution?” Along the way, I launched about a half a dozen other topics, but all related to, and in support of, my original question.
In these discussions, I was finding a lot of engagement but was not making discernible progress toward answering my original question. Most of the responses I was receving were providing scientific arguments and evidence for evolution; I, however, was looking for biblical answers that would either support evolution or at least not prohibit it. I was advised by more than one participant that focusing first on the age of the earth would be a better way of getting to the answer I sought. And so I launched this particular thread on July 15, and have devoted almost all my BioLogos time since then to it.
Your taxonomy makes me question whether narrowing my focus from evolution to the age of the earth has been of any significant value given my interest in biblical rather than scientific reasons. For if the Bible is ambiguous about the age of the earth then I don’t understand the value of focusing on it first. It seems I could have just as easily decided that the Bible was ambiguous about evolution. I’ll have to ponder this and re-think my next step.