Re: [asa] Slug

 Michael Roberts has memorably described Genesis Ch 1 as a "Hymn to Creation", and I think if one views it as that, and quit worrying about whether what it conveys are accurate facts, then perhaps you can get it "straight in the guts" just as that Wilfred Owen poem with all its scientific absurdities gets me in the guts.

Iain

I do not have the oriiginal thought to describe Gen1 as a poem. I took that from Gilbert Rorison's chapter on Genesis in Samuel Wilberforce,s "Answers to Essays and Reviews" in 1861. That book was a selection of essays by conservatives opposing the liberal theology of "Essays and Reviews". Clearly for Wilberforce, despite his anti- darwinism and conservatism Rosison's view was not radical or liberal.

After all most theologians had stopped this detailed tie-up of Genesis and science by about 1700, and most early 19th century concordist approachs were far more generalised and non-specific than Glenn wants to be.

I am sorry Glenn there can be little engagement with your ideas as you seem to dismiss all others especially those you charge with metaphoricalism and accommodation.

Michael

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Received on Fri Jun 16 04:09:18 2006