Oh, and even a Biblical literalist has to realize that the Bible itself says that a day “is as” a thousand years. To take it literally is obviously a mistake. I consider myself to be both a creationist and a scientist. They are not at odds. To me science is no more than our attempts to discover to the mechanics and details of the methods chosen for our existence.

I do think the person on the View meant it – she had three chances at the question and did not change her answer. On another blog I wrote “she went home and heard about 200 times that she was not smarter than a fifth grader and reconsidered her future on television. Then she reconsidered the shape of the earth.”