pete, I had a sudden vision of you the other day (hallelujah!!). You are valiantly defending an unassailable 'edifice' called The Bible from an evil 'edifice' called Modern Science. Your favourite mode of defence is attack!! You crawl all over the second edifice with a magnifying glass looking for cracks, chinks and flaws. When you find such a flaw (or think you've found one) you cry in triumph, "Ahaa! Science is wrong and that means that the Bible must be right! Hallelujah!!"

All that, of course, is nonsense. The Bible may be an edifice (of dubious unassailability) but Science isn't. Science is a collection of methods and techniques for investigating reality. Through a process called 'peer review' Science advances, changes and (dare I say it?) evolves. Genuine peer reviewers make you look like the eccentric, obsessional, not very clued-up, amateur that you are. And, of course, if Science (currently) really is wrong about some things, this most emphatically doesn't mean that the Bible must be right! There are, almost certainly, lots of other, much more plausible, explanations.