Cosmology has nothing to say so far, except agreeing there is no dimension or substance or life, but if there was a casual observer that could exist in these circumstances the emotions provided in the preceding verses would suffice for our kindergartners.
But Cosmology has a lot to say about the next verse,
And said God, "Let there be light", and there was light.
I agree, Genesis makes a very explicit distinction between the deep and water. I'm admittedly taking figurative license that an ocean and a depth can often describe the same thing.
In the next part I go further in the concept of water being an allusion for chaos when i talk about the separation of the waters from the waters. At that point Genesis tries (in my opinion) to move from an allusion of cosmic chaos as "waters" and the waters the allusion was built on, the waters we actually experience.
I'm trying to find a way to introduce this with just the translation, and might find a way that preserves the Genesis distinction. I would even prefer it if I could.
Where do we start with little five year olds?
Genesis is abstract such that it might map to that early big bang, or it could map to the first time our sun light up what would soon be its domain -- our solar system.
Gen 1:1 is coming next. That is where the translation wresting begins
Cosmology, evolution, paleontology, are all fields of science where we can peer into the past after countless thousands of hours spent in painstaking effort to deduce physical cues from the world around us. We can look past history to see human families and sociality extending more than a hundred thousand years with the tools, bones and footprints they left. We can look even farther into the past before humans even existed and see a continuity of primordial evolution that takes us back to the
Belay that, I do know. Some memories are quicker than others.
If you had said Bits and Chips, or maybe BoredAtWork I think I would have understood. I'm afraid I don't understand Duckpins...
Hopefully I can get away with making it an exercise in appreciating beauty, and not get high centered trying to push the cart one way or the other. Not that Spitzer is, but it is something I'm personally worried about.
It is good to see you too. I wasn't expecting anyone to be around.
I hope you are doing well, friend.
I was remembering all the fun we had in the book of Genesis as I'm pondering making a YT video with this premise
The answer is surprising, it is more useful in giving a picture of the early universe up through the Eocene than it was when I was growing up. Strikingly so, even.
For instance, light wasn't just a spark at the beginning, but it filled the universe for hundreds of thousands of years until the great inflation cooled things down enough. Then it would have looked something like a vast twilight that we can still see in the cosmic microwave background radiation. And that is just the morning and the evening of the first day. It actually seems to play pretty smoothly through the rest of the days as well.
Thanks for commenting. It is good to hear from you again.
Gone are the old-bold days. Rosebud.
I wonder if Cheezeburger Brown saw The Meep was a wolf in sheep's clothing villain in the throwback 10th Doctor.
Heh, villAIn...
That's be some pretty impressive overclocking, as the lowest energy wavelength considered X-ray band is 3nm, which is approx 100 PHz. Or 100,000,000 GHz.
Why can't the FBI target these malicious bot networks? They seem to be only focusing on software sharing sites and torrent networks.
Seems crazy that Google has to do this in the lack of the FBI's action.
They can't even remember whatever boogeyman Fox News was scaring them about 6 months ago, so how are they ever going to consider anything from all the way back in elementary school contradicts the latest compelling political talk show drama?
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- A.J. Perlis
