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@RaffaeleFerilli @Saganismm So, is everything in the Bible metaphorical? Perhaps human understanding of biology/science at that time was very limited, which is why the Bible doesn't actually offer a concrete explanation of the origins of humanity?

@Saganismm The literal interpretation of religious texts is a plague for all humanity. x.com/RaffaeleFerill…

"Religion deals with history, with poetry, with great literature, with ethics, with morals, including the morality of treating compassionately the least fortunate among us. All of these are things that I endorse wholeheartedly. Where religion gets into trouble is in those cases that it pretends to know something about science. The science in the Bible, for example, was acquired by the Jews from the Babylonians during the Babylonian captivity of 600 BC. That was the best science on the planet then. But we've learned something since then. Roman Catholicism, Reform Judaism, most of the mainstream Protestant denominations have no difficulty with the idea that humans have evolved from other creatures, that the Earth is 4.6 billion years old, the Big Bang. They don't have any trouble with that. The trouble comes with people who are Biblical literalists who believe that the Bible is dictated by the Creator of the Universe to an unerring stenographer and has no metaphor or allegory in it." — Carl Sagan