{"id":9086,"date":"2012-08-26T14:13:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T18:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=9086"},"modified":"2012-08-26T14:13:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T18:13:26","slug":"creationists-vote-to-ditch-genesis-1-3-for-being-soft-on-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/08\/creationists-vote-to-ditch-genesis-1-3-for-being-soft-on-evolution.html","title":{"rendered":"Creationists Vote to Ditch Genesis 1-3 for Being Soft on Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

News from the future:<\/p>\n

At their 2025 annual meeting, a well-known young-earth creationist organization decided to finally take the step of removing Genesis 1-3 from their canon of Scripture.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cIt was long overdue,\u201d said the organization\u2019s longstanding president (who changed his name to an unprintable squiggle after discovering that his surname referred to a meat outlawed in the Bible). \u201cWe accepted Genesis 1-3 for a long time, emphasizing that it doesn\u2019t mention evolution. But recently, it was drawn to our attention that neither is it as staunchly\u00a0anti-<\/em>evolution as we expect from a truly<\/em> Christian text. Most of our arguments, in fact, are absent from Genesis 1-3. And so we had to draw the conclusion that it was an inadequate depiction that does not deserve to be considered inerrant Scripture \u2013 unlike our own writings on this topic.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked for examples, he listed the following: \u201cIt never mentions God making the 2nd chromosome in human beings look like it resulted from the fusion of two chromosomes inherited from a primate ancestor, to test our faith. It never mentions God creating starlight en route<\/em> to Earth 6,000 years ago. It even uses ambiguous language, sounding as though it could be saying that God commanded the Earth and sea to bring forth life, rather than creating them directly. And in Genesis 2:2, the literal wording talks of a\u00a0day<\/em> in which God made the heavens and the earth. Being at odds with our literal six-day creationism, we decided to remove it from our Scripture, lest anyone be confused by it or led into error.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same annual meeting, the organization also decided to change the name of their organization to Answers in Genesis 4-50.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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