{{QuoteBox|Probably, so far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew or Old Testament at any world-class university who does not believe that the writer(s) of Genesis 1–11 intended to convey to their readers the ideas that: (a) creation took place in a series of six days which were the same as the days of 24 hours we now experience (b) the figures contained in the Genesis genealogies provided by simple addition a chronology from the beginning of the world up to later stages in the biblical story (c) Noah’s flood was understood to be world-wide and extinguish all human and animal life except for those in the ark. Or, to put it negatively, the apologetic arguments which suppose the "days" of creation to be long eras of time, the figures of years not to be chronological, and the flood to be a merely local Mesopotamian flood, are not taken seriously by any such professors, as far as I know}}
{{QuoteBox|Probably, so far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew or Old Testament at any world-class university who does not believe that the writer(s) of Genesis 1–11 intended to convey to their readers the ideas that: (a) creation took place in a series of six days which were the same as the days of 24 hours we now experience (b) the figures contained in the Genesis genealogies provided by simple addition a chronology from the beginning of the world up to later stages in the biblical story (c) Noah’s flood was understood to be world-wide and extinguish all human and animal life except for those in the ark. Or, to put it negatively, the apologetic arguments which suppose the "days" of creation to be long eras of time, the figures of years not to be chronological, and the flood to be a merely local Mesopotamian flood, are not taken seriously by any such professors, as far as I know}}
:[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 00:28, 18 May 2007 (EDT)
:[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 00:28, 18 May 2007 (EDT)
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Well, that's one man's opinion claiming no others "as far as I know" disagree. Hardly an open and shut case. And dismissing over 10,000 clergy and others, including Pope John Paul as non-experts is at least as "typical" as my so-called "typical of anti-creationist slur"... [[User:QNA|QNA]] 07:31, 18 May 2007 (EDT)