I agree with something that Chad writes!

In my recent exchanges with Chad at CCK, he complained that I am upset with everything he writes these days.  I think that's an exageration.  Most of what Chad writes is sensible enough, though I think he would be more plausible if he tried on occasion to be a little less reflexively partisan.  Anyway, I wish to announce that I did agree with one thing he wrote.  He directs our attention to a Dakota Voice post on evolution. Chad says:

I just can't take a guy seriously who believes that the earth is 6,000 years old.  Actually, that fact that he seriously believes that pretty much discredits everything else he says.

Now I do not know whether DV's Bob Ellis really believes that the Earth is 6,000 years old.  But I emphatically agree with Chad that such an opinion discredits any attempt at a scientifically respectable critique of Darwinian theory.  If the Earth is really only 6,000 years old, then pretty much all science is a mistake, not just biology. 

But I think that such strict constructionist interpretations of the Bible are not in fact faithful to the Bible.   As Christ spoke in parables, so the Bible as a whole tells stories that are literally true if, and only if, they are interpreted as poetry is interpreted.  I don't believe in talking serpents, but I do believe in temptation and redemption.  I am guessing that Chad and I would agree on that latter point as well.