Walter Hicks wrote:
> george murphy wrote:
>
>>
>> 1) As I noted earlier, the "rivers section" of Gen.2 indicates that
>> that account refers to our present world (in which at least 2 of
>> those rivers are identifiable). This doesn't require that it be
>> historical narrative but whatever it is it's about our earth.
>
> I disagree. That does not prove that it is our Earth, nor does it
> prove that it not historical. If it is historical, it could not be our
> Earth.
>
>> 2) Was that first universe not one of increasing entropy? If Adam
>> or Eve put a bucket of hot water next to one of cold water did they
>> not come to a common temperature? For that matter, the chemical
>> reactions their lives required couldn't have operated without the 2d
>> law.
>
> Pish! That sounds like a physicist who likes to define what God can or
> cannot create. Why not a universe without the physical laws that you
> have come to know and love? If you want to force fit a single universe
> theory, then you are pretty much required to consider much of Genesis
> 2 & 3 to be a myth or legend. I prefer to take the Bible at face
> value.
>
>> 3) You assume that the 2 creation accounts must be reconcilable as
>> historical accounts but there is no need to make this assumption.
>> Questions about what God could do are irrelevant. The Bible deals
>> with the one world God has created, not Dreamtimes, parallel worlds,
>> &c.
>
> If I take the Bible at face value, I see a world (in Genesis 2 & 3)
> where men came before animals and beasts could speak. Where does the
> Bible say that God created only one world and that the story of Adam
> and Eve is some sort of a fable? Jesus seemed to think that Genesis 2
> and 3 was "historical"
Given your reply to Dave, I'm not sure whether you're interested
primarily in "fun" or apologetics. If the 1st then your idea is perhaps
worthy of a 1/2 hour Twilight Zone episode. If the latter then I'd
alter Dave's evaluation to "preposterouser and preposterouser." An
alternate universe with rivers named Tigris & Euphrates & a land named
Assyria? It sounds as if you've watched the ending of "Planet of the
Apes" too many times. (I hope at least it was the original one: Last
summer's remake was wretched.)
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
"The Science-Theology Interface"
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