VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Edwin|DATE|1357581050|CONTENT|The rabbis in the 10th century laid down the following principle: if a biblical narrative is incompatible with established scientific fact, it is not to be read literally.&quot;- Lord Sachs

Anyone have a reference for evidence in support of this statement? Not a lot of science around in the 900 to be incompatible with Bible texts. It just makes no sense to say that although a writer back in the Bronze Age or Iron Age thought he was writing the truth we now know better and KNOW he was really being metaphorical. A sensible child could destroy the arguments of this noble ...(word excised to stay within the policies of POTD).

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