earth, old-earth, creation, evolution…what does Genesis teach?
In the seemingly-endless battle between proponents of various views of creation or evolution one thing often gets glossed over–the actual text of the Biblical creation account. Those who work with the Hebrew text of Genesis have realized for decades that there is a large amount of flexibility and ambiguity in how the text can be translated due to the very nature of the Hebrew language. For instance, while English has 12 verb tenses by which to express the temporal aspect of an action, Hebrew only has 2–and they can be used interchangeably quite often! Another factor which Creationists and Darwinists seem oblivious to is that Genesis’ creation account is written in a known Ancient Near East (ANE) literary style and is not intended to be read as stright literal chronology. This has been demonstrated by both Jewish and Christian Biblical Hebrew scholars…yet it seems to go completely unnoticed whenever Genesis is used to argue for or against a particular scientific view of creation. Bu
