@mentalmagicman, Welcome to the forum. I’m not from Biologos, but appreciate everyone’s input here.
Maybe you can answer some of the following questions as an introduction sometime:
- What is your background?
2Specific interests? - Study favorite?
- Which book is in your opinion the most influential in the last 10 years (scientific or theological)?
- Which mainstream scientific or theological belief, in your opinion, most needs to stop?
- You go into your favorite bar or restaurant. Which one is it, and what do you order?
To answer your question, I don’t know the answer fully, but believe that the Bible is made of many, many different types of literature and by many different authors. The genre of the OT and specifically of Genesis 1-11 (not really intended to say how, but why) is much different from that of the NT, which is eyewitness (or close to it), and based on many different accounts, much closer to the source.
Lamoureux’s posts and Enns’ work (Inspiration and Incarnation) have much to do with this. Lamoureux's Evolutionary Creation - #3 by Randy