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Seven Days that Divide the World: The Beginning according to Genesis and Science is unavailable, but you can change that!

What did the writer of Genesis mean by “the first day”? Is it a literal week or a series of time periods? If I believe that the earth is 4.5 billion years old, am I denying the authority of Scripture? In response to the continuing controversy over the interpretation of the creation narrative in Genesis, John Lennox proposes a succinct method of reading and interpreting the first chapters of...

suggested that religion and science belong to separate domains or magisteria.6 He meant that science and religion deal with fundamentally distinct questions, and harmony can be achieved if we keep the two completely apart. Now this view (often referred to by the acronym NOMA—nonoverlapping magisteria) has an obvious attraction for some people: if science and the Bible have nothing to do with each other, then our problem is solved. However, there are two very big snags. Firstly, the claim that science
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