Death Before the Fall Quotes

“What should we make of the fact, for example, that the geological event that is said by creationists to have wreaked such havoc upon the earth’s surface, literally tearing apart its mantle, somehow left all of the preflood geographical markers mentioned in Genesis 1–10 (the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the land of Cush, the land of Nod) precisely in place once the flood waters subsided? Did”
― Ronald E. Osborn, Death Before the Fall: Biblical Literalism and the Problem of Animal Suffering

“Flannery O’Connor wrote, “Conviction without experience makes for harshness.”
― Ronald E. Osborn, Death Before the Fall: Biblical Literalism and the Problem of Animal Suffering

“It is strict literalists themselves, we have also seen, who have most clearly subjected the theological authority of Scripture to the authority of modern scientific rationalism with their insistence that Genesis be “scientific” in order to be divinely inspired. This”
― Ronald E. Osborn, Death Before the Fall: Biblical Literalism and the Problem of Animal Suffering

“The tragic irony of strict literalism and “scientific” creationism, I am suggesting, is that it presents itself as the great opponent of scientism when it is in fact one of scientism’s most acute manifestations. The”
― Ronald E. Osborn, Death Before the Fall: Biblical Literalism and the Problem of Animal Suffering