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Claim CH102.2.1:

Jesus refers to creation and flood as though they were literal, which shows that those stories were, in fact, literal.

Source:

Morris, Henry M. 1985. Scientific Creationism. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, p. 204,246,253-254.

Response:

  1. Jesus's referring to traditional stories does not mean those stories were literal. People today refer to "the boy who cried wolf" and "blind men examining an elephant" and other stories the same way. Yet they do not consider those stories to be literally true. Their value, and the value of the stories Jesus refers to, is as stories, not as historical record.

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