The historiographical models canvassed to give structure to the relationship between Bible and science have tended to reflect the partisanship of their propounders. This chapter explores the history of the relationship between the Bible and science as a story of multiple discourses. The multiple-discourses approach avoids painting an oversimplified picture of the relationship between Bible and science, which relationship, cannot be resolved into two polar opposites of cognition, the one is religious conviction and the other is theology. Lilienthal contributed to a discourse that took the Bible and, in particular, its historical portions in a literal sense. The Old and New Testaments alike are divinely inspired and therefore inerrant. Most important to the literalist discourse have been creation, the flood and the age of the world as calculated on the basis of the genealogies of the ante and post-diluvial patriarchs.