Bill Nye comment about how old the earth is...

[merrily]

24. A couple of places in the Bible, words attributed to God the father

state plainly that God does not reckon time as we do. I don't remember the exact words or context at the moment, but it's something like "My time is not your time." There is also a reference to something like a thousand years being as one day to "me" (meaning to God). If a thousand--a number used to people who could barely conceive of a thousand--why not several million.

I guess I am trying to say that, even going by a literal interpretation of the Bible, one could take a statement like that and apply it to the Genesis creation story. Also, the Bible is full of metaphor and simile, why not a time metaphor? The essential point for a believer is God's involvement in creation, not how he chose to bring it about or how long it took.

So, perhaps it is not God who is at fault, but pastors who simply will not let go of an erroneous interpretation, perhaps because people might start to think that, if they got that wrong, maybe they have other things wrong as well.

I know only the Pope claims infallibility, and only when speaking on a limited range of things, but these self-proclaimed ministers sure seem to act as though they are also infallible, and about all topics, to boot.