Is Genesis 1 coincidentally accurate?

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@Ronald_Cram, how do you distinguish your approach to Genesis from “Scientific Prophecies in the Koran”? See for example this link:

Qur'anic scientific foreknowledge

It seems that your hermeneutic is:

1. No different than a Muslim making the same claims about the Koran.
2. There is no consistent rule that shows how you are right, and they are wrong.
3. I’ll assume that you do not accept the Koran as inspired.

So how do you resolve that mess? It seems to lend a lot of credence to…

@Jordan

What purpose does it serve to embed hidden “accurate” science that isn’t going to be discovered for many centuries? It just seems to be asking too much of the text. I’m not trying to be sarcastic or facetious, I just don’t know how to get what you’re getting out of the Bible.

And what concerns me, personally, is that it’s so easy to let coincidental accuracy replace what does seem to me to be the true, inspired, divine, message of Genesis. I don’t believe the divinely inspired author was worried about the discoveries of 20th century science at all, I think he was concerned with saying:

How do you know you aren’t doing anything different than a Muslim reading the Koran?