Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: ut-emx!blais@emx.utexas.edu (Donald Blais) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: inconsistencies in the Bible (digest of postings) Message-ID: Date: 16 Jan 90 00:36:08 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 28 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article hplabs!scottg@hp-ptp.hp.com (Scott_Gulland) writes: >As you can see by the author's comment, this interpretation of version 1 is >not very credible. Here is another interpetation which does not contradict >scientific knowledge about nature of the creation of the universe and earth. The internal structure of the first story of creation is simple, elegant, and hard to ignore once recognized. The story sorts the whole of creation into six classes: (1) the domain of light Gn 1:3-5 (2) the domain of water Gn 1:6-8 (3) the domain of earth Gn 1:9-13 (4) mobile denizens of the domain of light Gn 1:14-19 (5) mobile denizens of the domain of water Gn 1:20-23 (6) mobile denizens of the domain of earth Gn 1:24-31 At the start, there is chaos. God instills order. God rests. The story has a beauty and consistency of its own. The day (YWM) is a narrative artifice for the separation into six classes. Its length is the duration of a category. -- Donald E. Blais INTERNET: blais@emx.utexas.edu Computation Center BITNET: BLAIS@UTAIVC University of Texas UUCP: ... !cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!blais Austin TX 78712 PHONE: (512) 471-3241