Wow! That's a long one. I'm glad I don't have to answer that?!
:)
Nut, of course, Alecto, by the same reasoning, there's no reason to accept any of the Bible. Certainly Paul held the Old Testament in high regard. When he said that scripture was inspired by God, he didn't mean that someone sat down one day and said, "Just thinking about God makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. I think I'll write a long book about Him." Also, he seems to have taken the story about Adam pretty seriously when he said that sin entered the world through Adam.
But it's true, I think, that you can't prove that the Genesis account is true. If God created the universe, there's only one eye witness. He either reported it (in the Bible) or He didn't. If He did, He either did truthfully or He didn't.
But the Genesis account is by no means rediculous and makes as much sense as the "scientific" explanations. Assuming a creator God, it makes quite a lot of sense in fact.
Now, what kind of translaton error was made in the English translations of the Bible? I see quite a lot in the newer thought-for-thought and paraphrase versions but I've dug around in the Greek Interlinear Bible for quite a while and I'm just not seeing much that looks like it might be error.
