Category: Genesis

• Genesis 1: The Necessary Oomphalos

  Apparent Age is a fringe thought. From the view of the typical secularist it is one of the craziest uncles in a crazy family of religious ideas. When the evidence of an old universe first put pressure on the literal reading of Genesis, some sincere creationist argued that Adam must have had a belly button,…

• Genesis 1: The Layers of Intelligent Design

  A very rough draft. First, the primordial cosmos: the earth was “without form and void”. This is not something other than matter. In fact, you actually can’t imagine something other than matter. Even when you imagine energy, the nebulous form of matter, you imagine a picture drawn from visible angles of matter. What God made…

• Genesis 2: Eve’s curiosity

  Eve’s sin was to prefer the exploration of the world to obediance to God, taking the evidence of her senses as the final arbiter on good and evil.   And the context of the incident is important: Eve could explore 99% of the universe with impunity.   This freedom to explore a rational universe accounts…