Mauro’s unease began when he first picked up the Scofield Reference Bible. He was anticipating its arrival after years of hype and the high esteem in which he held “the editor and his co-workers.” But Mauro did not make it past Scofield’s notes on Genesis 1, which allowed for a nonliteral reading of “days” of creation. “I found to my surprise and disappointment that these notes made room for, and indeed rather favored, the absurd notion that the ‘days’ of Genesis 1 were long periods—ages—of time.”
