But this is not the only possible view. If one approaches the text with the presupposition that it DOES square with reality (historical, geographical, and scientific), he will find that plausible theories exist which will accomodate all of the data (biblical as well as extra-biblical). To the critics, this will look like we are "making things up".
my problem with this idea is it denies a fundamental fact, the people who wrote the text believed the text was correct, trying to twist what the text says only shows that the text needs to be twisted to work and if it needs to be twisted to work, it fails to be true
the fact is they thought the earth was a giant snow globe like other cultures did, they had no insight into how the world work or how it was created anymore than anyone else, they thought god did it the way the bible says, this doesn't make the belief anything more, just wrong
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