Gungor, who previously believed in biblical creation before accepting the concept of theistic evolution, now thinks the creation account in Genesis is merely a poem.“So to take the poem of Genesis 1, for instance, and try to make it into a science textbook is to just, is to kill the thing,” said Gungor. Now, I say poem because that’s actually what it is. The way it’s lined up and divided, with repetition and the days, how they’re ordered, it is a poem. So, I think it absolutely has amazing value, and I think it has for billions of people for thousands of years.”
“And for thousands of years or at least hundreds of years, people in Christian history have been saying things like hey, you can’t try to read the Bible as a science book when science conflicts with the Bible and your reading of the Bible,” he said.
“Re-read the Bible. Change that, because you’re probably the one that’s wrong; and if ...