would describe as an elementary error. Though Richard Dawkins, for example, acknowledges that not all Christians are creationists, holding to a literal understanding of the Genesis creation account, he proceeds to state: ‘Of course irritated theologians will protest that we don’t take the book of Genesis literally anymore. But that is my whole point! We pick and choose which bits of scripture to believe, which bits to write off as symbols or allegories. Such picking and choosing is a matter of personal