Many mainline Christians treat most of the Old Testament, especially scientifically implausible parts like Genesis, as tradition, and not literal fact. These ar

Many mainline Christians treat most of the Old Testament, especially scientifically implausible parts like Genesis, as tradition, and not literal fact. These are things that are perhaps taught in Sunday school to children, but not treated very seriously from a historical or scientific perspective. This very morning in my church discussion group, we each had a list of questions to discuss our perspective on. This particular gal had the question, "What's your favorite traditional Christian symbol?" Her answer was "the Jesus fish, and the evolved Jesus fish with legs". They are not incompatible given how our denomination tries to understand God.