I seem to have succumbed to this cold I've been fighting on the eve of a routine DRs appointment. Can I can in sick to my doctor?
But? There's always a but. When this is over, can we have a big 'but' moratorium?
Fred ,'Smile Time'
Spike's Bitches 37: You take the killing for granted.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Laga - Sep 12, 2007 3:44:34 pm PDT #5334 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Emily - Sep 12, 2007 3:54:54 pm PDT #5335 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Genesis' order is: land plants, the sun and moon, aquatic life and birds, land animals, humanity.
Huh? Granted, there seems to be earth before sun, but it looks to me like: heaven and earth, light and dark, sky, land, then vegetation.
And I'm going away to prep for class before you get a chance to respond. Sorry!
Laga - Sep 12, 2007 3:57:32 pm PDT #5336 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Have y'all seen Ricky Gervais' stand-up routine about Genesis?
billytea - Sep 12, 2007 4:13:00 pm PDT #5337 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Huh? Granted, there seems to be earth before sun, but it looks to me like: heaven and earth, light and dark, sky, land, then vegetation.
Third day: land vegetation (v11-12). Fourth day: sun and moon and stars (v14-18 - note that, by a neat trick, evening and morning were already rocking around before the invention of the sun). Fifth day: aquatic life and flying birds (v20-22). Sixth day: land animals (v24-5), then humanity (v26-30; we needed more in the way of operating instructions).
The stuff on the first and second day doesn't include living things, and therefore doesn't have much bearing on the evolutionary time sequence. Neither does the creation of the sun and moon, of course, but since he got started on plants the day before I included them.
amych - Sep 12, 2007 4:14:47 pm PDT #5338 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
land animals (v24-5), then humanity (v26-30; we needed more in the way of operating instructions).
We're the ones responsible for programming the TiVo. It takes some training.
tommyrot - Sep 12, 2007 4:16:51 pm PDT #5339 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Do the two different accounts of creation in Genesis agree on this?
billytea - Sep 12, 2007 4:18:36 pm PDT #5340 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
We're the ones responsible for programming the TiVo. It takes some training.
Kangaroos TiVo their young! In times of drought, they can hold onto a fertilised egg and pause its development until times are better. They lack the rewind function, though.
amych - Sep 12, 2007 4:19:25 pm PDT #5341 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
How about skipping commercials? That'd come in handy for, say, adolescence.
javachik - Sep 12, 2007 4:24:09 pm PDT #5342 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
How did sun get created after plants? Isn't photosynthesis essential for plant growth?
billytea - Sep 12, 2007 4:25:26 pm PDT #5343 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Do the two different accounts of creation in Genesis agree on this?
The second account starts off life with Adam, and then we get plants, land animals, birds, and then Eve. No mention of aquatic life. The Bible does state that there were no plants on earth when Adam was created, so that's contradictory, but thereafter all the creation is in the Garden of Eden. Whether or not that's contradictory depends on whether you think Eden got first dibs on Faunapalooza.
And I think you need to check tense too, because it also notes that God put Adam in this garden he'd made, i.e. Eden. It's not clear from my reading whether he is supposed to have made Adam, then Eden, then plonked Adam therein, or if he set up the biodome before getting to work on Mr Ribs.
In a nutshell, different literary devices, thus integrating the stories is a bit malleable.