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.

How about skipping commercials? That'd come in handy for, say, adolescence.

How did sun get created after plants? Isn't photosynthesis essential for plant growth?

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.

How did sun get created after plants? Isn't photosynthesis essential for plant growth?

Hey, he's God. Maybe he just created them all as seeds or something and kept the Earth warm in a giant blankie overnight. Maybe there was a cut scene with Pantomime God warning the plants not to germinate when his back was turned, and the Angels have to keep shouting at him to turn around.

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.

He created Adam and just had him float around in the Holy Spacesuit until He finished Eden....

I had an amazingly uneventful flight that arrived early. Hertz gold had my car ready and it even has satellite radio and neverlost and I'm not being charged for them. Seattle traffic has even been nice to me.

Hmm. Interesting.

So I'm no expert on either side, and talking ex cloaca here, but from Wikipedia's Timeline of evolution and Bible Gateway's Genesis 1, it looks like the major problems are seeds and flowers, and birds. Those are the ones that are significantly out of cycle, leaving aside the whole light/sun question.

prokaryotes [4 bil]formless and void, waters [1]chemoautotrophs using carbon dioxide as a carbon source and oxidizing inorganic materials to extract energy photosynthesis [3 bil]light and darkness[1]cyanobacteria using water as a reducing agent, producing oxygen eukaryotes [2 bil], multicellular life [1 bil] ?   ? (glaciation?)firmament (separating waters above from waters below, heaven)[2]accumulation of atmospheric oxygen allows formation of ozone layer, blocking uv and permitting colonization of the land ?dry land (earth and seas)[3]  simple animals [600 mil], arthropods [570 mil], complex animals [550 mil]?  -grass, seeds, fruit[3]this is a problem, flowers not turning up until very late on the evolutionary chart, and land animals perhaps predating land plants -stars, sun, moon[4]  fish and proto-amphibians [500 mil]fish and birds[5]birds are a problem, not appearing until later in the evolutionary timeline land plants [475 mil]-  insects and seeds [400 mil]-  amphibians [360 mil], reptiles [300 mil], mammals [200 mil]beasts of the earth, crawling animals[6]  birds [150 mil]-  flowers [130 mil]-  humans [2 mil]man and woman[6]  -rest, sabbath[7] 

Close - Midrashim (singular midrash).

amych and I once had a long conversation about fanfic as midrash. (And conversely, you can think of midrash as fanfic about God.)

Whoa! Liese with the table making!