Dr. Gayle informs us:
Dr. Hugh Henry and Mr. Daniel J. Dyke, respectively a retired physicist and a professor of Old Testament, have taken on Rashi, Robert Young, and several other Bible translators. In fact, the two have taken on (what they say is) Aristotle’s view of the universe and the resultant (liberal, unscientific, outdated) translation methods of the Bible.
Their essay “Translating Genesis 1:1: Aristotle or the Big Bang?” is posted as a two parter here and here.
You might also check out Dr. Gayle’s thoughts on this as well.
This sounds fun. Weird, isn’t it, that after all these years we can’t even agree on the translation of the first verse of the whole Bible?
Amen to that, Mitchell!
And I mean we in the general sense, not me and you in particular–(I’d be hard-pressed to disagree with anyone on the first verse, other than perhaps Joseph Smith.