The preceding falsehoods have already been dealt with so I'll jump in here.
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I also don't think it is definitive that verse 1 is a summation
Since we have a creation of Heaven and of Earth in later verses it looks pretty definite to me. And the Heaven and Earth there aren't what you say.
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also don't think it is definitive that verse 1 is a summation. This is just an argument, and it fits a specific vantage. The argument I am presenting is a different vantage of the chapter and it argues a completely different way of looking at it. When you look at them side by side, what I am arguing is much more plausible. Especially since it agrees with Science
I don't think that your ideas about what the text should be are a plausible basis for a good interpretation. Let alone better than the actual text.
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If we are to test scripture we should look at science and biblical thought, and find a good interpretation of them both.
Unless your idea of "good interpretation" is one that fits what you want, over and above the text then you aren't even making an attempt to do that.
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This is a way of reconciling scripture and showing that it is actually perfect.
More like ignoring scripture and pretending that it is "perfect".
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God does not have to communicate all things if he does not want to communicate all things. God communicated what God intended to communicate.
By which you mean that God has to do what you want him to have done. And since He didn't, you have to pretend that He did.
Genesis 1 was written for the exiles in Babylon, not for a modern scientifically literate population. It shows no intention of representing modern science, the scale of space and time is hopelessly compressed by that standard. The sky is blue because it's full of water, with a roof keeping it up there. The stars are just lights in the sky put there for the benefit of human timekeeping.
Exalt yourself by misrepresenting scripture all you want, but don't think that you're fooling anyone.
Well there's a lot more but it's all the same confusion of what you want the Bible to say with what it actually says.
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What I find interesting is the order, it is perfect.
But it isn't. The primordial Earth was dry, with water coming from space, and so far as we know never completely covered in water. Birds came after land animals, so did whales. In fact the text doesn't make any distinction between ancient and modern life in it's ordering, making the order not even wrong, too far from the truth to be even a simple error.