constructively integrated. Concordism emerges from the belief that revelation is a coherent union. Also, since Genesis 1–3 records real space-time history, the book of nature may be used to probe that history. RTB affirms a soft concordist perspective, which seeks agreement between properly interpreted Scripture passages that describe some aspect of the natural realm and indisputable and well-established data in science. RTB’s soft concordism rejects the view that a literalistic hermeneutic applies