When Evolution’s Controversial, Declaring a State Fossil Can Get Tricky
April 11th, 2014On which day did God create z8_GND_5296?
Via: Smithsonian Magazine:
The Columbian Mammoth is about to become an official state symbol of South Carolina, but its path to the limelight was long and fraught with controversy. Let’s see if you can guess why. Here’s the text of the bill that made it official:
Section 1-1-712A. The Columbian Mammoth, which was created on the Sixth Day with the other beasts of the field, is designated as the official State Fossil of South Carolina and must be officially referred to as the ‘Columbian Mammoth’, which was created on the Sixth Day with the other beasts of the field.
This is actually the watered-down version of the bill; one version, proposed earlier, made even more explicit references to the role of a divine creator in the mammoth’s history.
Research Credit: ottilie
z8_GND_5296?
Maybe…that would’ve been sometime around Genesis 1:1 and in advance of Genesis 1:2 if the seemingly more accurate translation of ‘…and the earth became formless and void’ is used. So, long before any of that stuff about ‘days’ that people get their knickers in a knot about.
Ah, ok, so just ignore the part about the “days” then?
Har. Reminds me of a great 1927 short story by Wilbur Daniel Steele:
The Man Who Saw Through Heaven
http://people.eku.edu/sicar/saw.through.heaven.htm
@Kevin
If the Hebrew word ‘day’ were interpreted by its use in the Genesis creation story, it would be impossible to claim it meant a 24-hour period.
@Pookie
I enjoyed the story, loved how it was written. Reminded of this:
http://www.threewordphrase.com/glory.htm
and also this:
“We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.”
— Einstein & Religion, by Max Jammer.
May write more later. Don’t have time right now.