@Hanna “OK, but we’re talking about theology, not science or nature. It’s part of the humanities and has more in common with literature than science. You can apply logic to theology – it’s just humanities logic. Theology makes arguments like: if God says X in this scripture, then God must be Y.”
In more liberal seminaries, I agree with everything you are saying.
In conservative theologies, however, they claim that God involves himself with the natural world all the time. In that case, I think it becomes less like critical reading and more like science.