Taking the text seriously is not expressed by correlating it with modern science; it is expressed by understanding it in its ancient context. If the text is interested in functional origins, it need not be evaluated against material claims and material knowledge. Its validation would come in answer to the question, Is this really how God set up the world to run, and is he the one who set it up? This stands in stark contrast to the validation that asks, Is this a scientifically accurate account of how the material universe came into being?
