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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope--raised Catholic, and attended Catholic school through university.

I mean, the Bible clearly isn't meant to be taken literally.  If it was, there wouldn't be two, contradictory creation stories, would there?  It's a collection of books, written over a long period of time, that includes stories, poetry, proverbs, etc.  If you take it literally, you have to tie yourself into knots to make sense of it.

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There aren't two contradictory accounts. Genesis 1 is an overview, and Genesis 2 is more detail. Do you really think the writer would be so stupid as to forget what he wrote from one chapter to the next?[/quote]

More than one person contributed to the book of Genesis, and it probably wasn't written down all at once, but over a span of time.

And the accounts are contradictory.  In the first version, God creates fish and birds on the fourth day, land animals on the fifth day, and humans (male and female) on the sixth day.  In the second version, God creates one man, then all the animals, then one woman.  Which is not a problem if you understand them as creation myths intended to convey truths about God's relationship to his creation.  [/quote]

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