A Literal Interpretation of Scripture


I have to clarify one thing you said (twice): “…you can’t believe in evolution and believe in a literal translation of the bible.” This is somewhat misleading, because neither can you believe in anatomy, astronomy, geology, meteorology, botany, mathematics, or geography and truely stick to a literal interpretation of scripture. Scripture was never intended to be authoritative on those issues, and merely reflects the popular views of the human authors when it comes to the natural sciences.

In this respect, evolution is nothing special. It just happens to be where the front lines of this historic battle between natural and special revelation currently exist.

Gordon J. Glover in a comment on the blog Evangelical Dialog