The older I get and the more science discovers, the more literalistic I get about the Bible. Take for instance the following, which all kinds of “enlightened” people declared mere allegory back when there was more mechanistic view of the universe.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. If “the earth” is the universe, it would have been “without form and void” prior to the Big Bang. It would have been a tiny string of unimaginable energy.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. Light didn’t exist before the Big Bang. It is merely one of the forms of radiation that had been “trapped”, so to speak in the “string”. It’s just a fact that the Big Bang would have released light for the first time.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. That exactly happened when the wavelength we know as “light” manifested itself.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. What’s an “evening” and what’s a “morning” in cosmic terms?
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. Prior to the Big Bang there was nothing solid at all, according to some physicists. It was all energy. But as the Bang explanded, particles of matter began to “congeal” making the very first solids or “firmament” As to “waters”, some astophysicists hold that the Big Bang was caused by the intersection of two shimmering "membranes of cosmic energy. If we could see that energy, it would perhaps look like undulating “waters”."
Anyway, as time goes on, and as science discovers more and more, it seems more to support “literal” interpretations of the Bible. I don’t pretend to be any kind of scientist, but it sure seems that way to me.
