With no such intent, scientific inquiries have fully refuted scriptural claims of physical truths.
Look up “Human Population Bottleneck”, you’ll learn that human population has never been below 3,000, therefore scriptural claims of only two, Adam and Eve and Noah’s eight are impossible.
Localized floods are commonplace as we can clearly see in current events.
Multiple scientific disciplines have fully verified that there was never a worldwide flood that destroyed all life.
Factually, Genesis tales are impossible.
Without the truth of the foundation tale of Genesis, everything that builds on that mythical foundation must also be mythical.
If one continues to believe scriptures’ alleged and asserted truths, it is only because one wants to believe in myths, not because these alleged truths are actually true.
As scriptures are not actually true, their only possible value can be as metaphor.
If metaphor, they are fully open to each and every individual’s interpretation, therefore they cannot have universal value.
As metaphor, what is the take away from Genesis 2 and 3?
Genesis 2:17
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.
Genesis 3:2-5
2) The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,
3) but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”
4) “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.
5) “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
First, as the tale continues, Adam lived over 900 years, far from dying as soon as the command was dis-obeyed.
Second, whatever could possibly be so wrong with having knowledge of good and evil?
Third, according to the tale, Adam and Eve were the first humans ever, they could have only minimal life experience, they could have no knowledge passed down to them from previous generations, therefore they must have been extremely innocent, naïve and gullible.
Well knowing His creations were so naïve and gullible, God passive/aggressively baits them with an irresistible trap, well knowing they will fail.
And for this failure, all subsequent generations are doomed to carry sin, all for God’s psychotic desire to punish what He has made imperfect.
Metaphorically, God himself has unacceptable morality, He manipulatively abuses His own power and authority, He’s just nuts.
Try to imagine back to the beginning of eternity.
Nothing, absolutely nothing exists. There is not a single atom, proton or neutron, no matter, no energy, not a single photon of light.
There is no time, no space, not even a void can or does exist.
There is no thought, nothing to think about, nothing to think with, no one to think about nothing, no one to think with nothing to think with.
Suddenly, in less than an instant, an all powerful being spontaneously creates itself, creates space and time and all the matter and energy in this and all universes.
Alternately, within this nothingness exists a powerful yet non-corporeal entity which has seen, experienced, known and remembers only nothing because nothing is all that has ever been.
This non-corporeal entity suddenly creates space and time and all the matter and energy in this and all universes.
This all powerful being then tracks, cares, influences and judges every particle and every event right from these very beginnings through the present and on into the infinity of the future.
Further, it waits thirteen odd billion years for humanity to evolve, decides to briefly make its presence known to a few barely literate desert nomads, lays down some impossible to follow rules and disappears again leaving behind the idea that it’s always watching everything everywhere and judging all humans’ on all their actions.
Consider this a thought exercise if you will, a philosophical statement.
Is it rational or irrational, credible or incredible, plausible or implausible?
Whatever you choose to think about all this is just that, a choice of thought.
There is no factual evidence to support this imagined supposition nor is there any factual support for whatever responses you the reader might imagine. There are, admittedly, supporting mythologies.
This is all that philosophy is, thought exercise.
Theology is a subset of philosophy referencing the writings of Bronze Age authors and concerning itself primarily with the task of making myths palatable and believable and the profits from the naïve, innocent and gullible that accompany success.
Philosophy has never accomplished a single thing.
Theology has achieved only the instilling of judgmental bigotry into its followers.
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Consider the manned moon landings.
A militaristic society recognized that a Space Race was in progress, a well financed and determined program should and possibly could and would succeed in winning this race.
No one knew for 100% certain that the goal was reachable, but given the state of advancement of accumulated human knowledge, the goal seemed plausible.
It was still a hypothetical thought exercise at this point.
To actually get to the Moon required concerted and coordinated efforts of scientists from several disciplines, engineers and fabricators all working within the limitations of testable reality.
There was no, could be no philosophical imaginings of orbital trajectories, environmental conditions, rocket thrust, material selections, rivet or weld configurations.
Applied Sciences sent humans to the Moon, not philosophy, not theology.