John, no condescenion intended, and thanks for the warm, hospitable welcome.

I don’t have any “answers.” What I do have is two solid years of wrestling with these issues, in a community of people who have been wrestling with them far longer.

No one as far as I can tell has referenced John Polkinhorne, Alister McGrath, Nancey Murphy, Conrad Hyers, Bernard Ramm, or any other heavyweights in faith-science questions, or the ASA’s journal “Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith,” or CIS’ journal “Science and Christian Belief.” On heremenuetics, there is an interesting discussion now taking place in evangelical circles about the nature and limits of “accommodation” — see Peter Enns’ “Inspiration and Accommodation.”

Anyway, none of this is intended to claim answers, but hopefully to point to some fruitful resources. Does “open source” mean “without reference to anything anyone else has ever said?”