Excellent thoughts Farmer Deere.
Like everything in life, as our experience grows and knowledge deepens, our conclusions can change. This is a kind of mental evolution I suppose and I certainly continue to evolve, or some might argue disolve.
. Since neither of us will know the perfect truth until after death, I was merely pointing out that nothing in modern "settled science" contradicts my faith, actually I find all of modern science confirms my faith. You can't have a big bang without one heck of a kick of energy from God. I view your interpretation about the same as mine, it was created and did not create itself. The details are not meant to be known to man. The creation story was written by man using the best technology, knowledge, and language available at the time. This does not make it less valid, rather moreso. All of the bible was written, or transposed from oral accounts, a long time ago making any modern interpretation difficult.
I love listening to a catholic scripture scholar explain a verse and put it into historical context. The best one is one of Christ's last sayings on the cross, "Why have thou foresaken me?"...instead of questioning God as many think, this is the first verse of Psalm 22 written by David centuries earlier about Christ's death, which starts with these words, and ends triumphantly...exactly opposite of what many would think just hearing it. It is entirely possible that the faithful, hearing Christ entone the verse, would have completed the psalm in unison at the base of the cross.
Thank you for your thoughts.
