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“When people today read the Bible in a non-literal fashion, this is not a retreat from the advances of scientific knowledge. It is rather a return to the classic way of approaching these texts. The only people who are allowing the concerns of modern science to determine the way they read the text are, ironically, the fundamentalists, who seek absolute certain scientific explanations in a text that does not offer them.
Read the whole thing — it’s not long. I personally would disagree that there is such a thing as “absolute certain scientific explanations,” nor would I say the available evidence justifies McGrath’s claim that “the reality of which we are a part is neither simply hostile nor ultimately meaningless.” But those are side issues compared to the fundamentalists’ failure to understand what it is they’re reading.
