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Quote by: Winter wind  Most modern scholars (not idiots like me, people who have studied this for their lives) reject the traditional view of historicity, and hold instead that the genealogy reflects the ethnic groupings and changing... |
In other words, most modern scholars recognize that they'd sound like idiots in front of their scholar buddies if they say "The earth is 6000 years old" so they've come up with an excuse. We see this all the time with biblical scholars. They begin with the brainless idea that the bible is always correct / the word of god and not the laboring of sociopathic sandal wearers. When the claims in the book are destroyed utterly by science, the honest thing for these apologists to do would be to say, "Okay. It's wrong." Instead, they conclude that the wrong stuff is "figurative" and look for other meanings.
"What? The earth
isn't 6000 years old? Well... uhm... it
couldn't be the case that the bible is just wrong... so what silly meaning can we invent that sounds sorta like what's in there? I know! Ethnic lines! Sure. Let's run with it..."