Friday, April 8, 2011

Bible Breakdown - The Book of Genesis : Chapters 1 - 2

As a geologist and scientist, the first chapters of genesis are nothing more than amusing to me.  I have a pretty good idea of how the earth was made as all evidence present here on earth points to one solid theory
(In science, theory is a strong word.  It does not mean a hypothesis as many people assume.), however I was not here to witness the beginning of Earth.  But I do know that it did not just appear as the first chapter of genesis implies.  I will not spend much time here.  However I have found an inconsistency.  From now on, I will mark inconsistencies with *'s. 

*Genesis 1:3 - "And God said: Be light made. And light was made."
Genesis 1:14 > 1:6 - "And God said: Let there be lights made in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years. To shine in the firmament of heaven, and to give light upon the earth. And so it was done.  And God made two great lights: a greater light to rule the day; and a lesser light to rule the night: and the stars."

So what this says is that God created light before he created the sun.  This inconsistency is actually consistent with the order in the ancient egyptian creation story of Hermopolis.  Isn't that funny?  You can read more here.*

Just a few remarks for chapter two... 

 Genesis 2:19 - "And the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all of the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name."

What?  Was the writer too lazy to name the creatures of the earth and describe them?  And why even discriminate between two types of animals and give the types names before Adam has named them?  Fowls and beasts...  Perhaps instead of dividing the animals into groups based on their ability to get around, he might have wanted to base the group names on color, size or even what noise the animal makes...  So why not just say "brought all the creatures" ?  Oh and they already mentioned "fish" too... that kind of ruins the fun for Adam.  :(

Moving on to the end of chapter two, we see the beginning of sexism in the bible.  Eve is created from Adam's rib bone.  Not much more to say yet.  We'll get into much heavier and absolutely deporable acts of sexism later on.

So basically anyone educated beyond the sixth grade level in science can see that the first two chapters of genesis were made to explain the unexplainable (at that time).  This sort of thing has been done all throughout history.  However I find it hard to understand why anyone with access to modern science still  believes in the christian creation story.  I'm baffled. 

7 comments:

  1. I absolutely agree! I don't see how anyone still believes in that stuff! We're much more educated these days and CAN explain the unexplainable. Tell it like it is! I'm looking forward to the next part! HURRRRRY!!! :D

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  2. @Katie

    I'm glad you enjoy the series... I'll be writing more when I have time - next week will be my last week of finals! Keep your eyes peeled! ^^

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  3. There isn't a way for you to "explain the unexplainable" as Katie said, because like how you just grasped at straws to find holes in creationism, I can also point out many holes in any evolution theory that you believe also.

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  4. I am praying for you. I know that you live your life without hope. In God there is hope, but you have to have faith. That is believing without seeing. The Bible also warns us to not lean on our own understanding but to trust Him. Do more research on history instead of science. There is more proof that God's word is true.

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  5. I live my life without hope? Where did you come up with that? Because anyone with any other view of life must have something wrong with them right? I HOPE that you come to your senses.

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  6. funny how people can say creation is false by quoting a bible that has been edited so many times that many parts ethier dont make sense or have been left out

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  7. So you believe that the fallible word of man is greater than the Word of God. That is the error of you ways. You are absolutely correct when you say you were not there......but GOD was. And His word is the TRUTH

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