>but let’s skip that plot hole for now.
If you've not read Holy Bible - Best God Damned Version - Genesis the entire thing is pointing out all the plot holes (and it's JUST Genesis). It's a hoot.
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>Every time I have this discussion I come away more convinced that religion is one of mankind’s worst ideas.
I could even accept that it was our best attempt at making sense of our world... at the time. It's beyond maddening that people still cling to things that are obviously BS. Take Genesis... even if you take the first "let their be light" as being photons you still cannot escape the fact that multiple times after their are explicit sources of visible light that happen for freaking stars exist. So you can't even get out of the very beginning of the first book without it going completely off the rails.