I don't think the Firehose is that particular. You just must have seen it at the right time. I don't remember interacting with you before either. But it is nice to meet you either way.
Since this is a journal, consider it a friendly place and my own personal journey instead of a new direction for
Its kind of like going back to a childhood playground and seeing all the old neighborhood friends for me.
Wait, stop
I like your signature.
No it did not come from a Bible study curriculum.
As far as my best understanding of physics, our mathematical models start applying in degrees of verifiability from complete conjecture to solid Standard Model only after the big bang.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only thing we know about the state of of the universe at the BB was from Hawking, who showed it started from a singularity, who showed it was the same mathematically an undefinable state that Einstein defined a singularity as.
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.
over the deep face of the depths.
"deep" fits neither the words nor the context.
"depths" It says water, not depths.
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.
Heh. Only if you are interested. I'm not here to force my views on anyone.
Gen 1:1 is coming next. That is where the translation wresting begins
I'm still here.
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
Ah, then i wasn't there. I just remember being in slashdot before logins existed.
I was remembering all the fun we had
Yeah, i remember the discussions. None of the details though.
Thanks for commenting. It is good to hear from you again.
Same.
I don't remember Duckpins. I remember dips and chips, but not sure if i was reading then.,
Belay that, I do know. Some memories are quicker than others.
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.
