Wikipedia has an informative article on the attitude
of many major religious denominations toward the
inerrancy of the Bible.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_inerrancy

There is variability in the degree to which organized
churches accept the Scripture(s) as they were written,
translated and currently received. Individual beliefs
of members of those churches are even more variable
than the official position. 

Over time these positions have shifted and fluctuated,
as have the positions about theories such as the
arrangement of the sun and planets in our  solar
system, the nature of gravity and Darwinian evolution.

Science is very much a product of culture, society and
the community the scientist finds him/herself in.  It
does not happen in a vacuum, any more than religious
practice and dogma does.  

Personally, to use the work of science, specifically
natural history, to bolster the account told in
Genesis strikes me as surreal, regardless of what
Republican (or Whig, for that matter) presidents
think. 

Judy Turner
Whitefish Bay, WI


       
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