Quote Originally Posted by InsaneApache

As for the universe, it is my opinion that to all intents and purposes it's always been there. In the human time scale, that is.

The Bible was early bronze age mans attempt to explain the world around him. As other 'good' books of that era are. Having no knowledge of physics, chemistry or biology, they had to try and find reasons for natural events. So they decided that a supreme being must be the answer.

As for taking the Bible literally, possibly, as long as we go back to living in tents and herding goats, then it might work.

BTW Kukri congrats on the promotion.
That's more or less how I think about it