Bex, the next post from you about hominid fossils, if you want to write one, will hopefully be well researched; that means learning about the fossils and current scientific understanding of human origins, rather than more regurgitated PRATTs from creationist sites. If this takes days or weeks, I'm happy with that.

I do have one question about your reply to LinearAQ re: the Bible. In response to his question about Paul telling women to cover their heads in church, you said you don't. The question, therefore, remains:

Do you do everything the Bible tells you to do?

The answer appears to be no. I imagine it's no for everyone, unless they also think they should be doing things like slaughtering sacrificial animals and other things Deuteronomy tells them to do.

Therefore, every person who follows the Bible makes a choice about what they will take and what they will leave. It is not logically possible to claim that you do otherwise.

Therefore, Christians today make decisions about what it is practical and relevant to believe and to do in this day and age. Therefore, a person's entire faith need not come crashing down if they make this kind of rational decision about how to interpret the book of Genesis.

This sounds like a logical chain of reasoning to me.