Re: Was "Re: Creation v. Evolution: the danger of misplaced

There has been a thread on this very topic earlier, and with a discussion
of
the significance of the narrative form (morphologically waw+iussive; as
distinct from waw+perfect which is also sometimes called waw consecutive
but
is entirely different) of verbs. It was in part controversial but I think
the im****tant points were made. The first posting to the thread had the
msg-id <6tbddr$p7l$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>.

At that time I held a position which I still hold today:

  Could it not also be that he [the writer of Genesis] was utterly
  disinterested in this kind of detail? That he noticed a discrepancy but
  saw no reason to resolve it?  We should not forget that it is only us
  children of the "Enlightenment" who consider the most interesting
aspects
  of the creation stories to be duration and sequence of the steps God
  took. The writer of Genesis might have been more interested in who it
did,
  that it was an act of creating order, or that there is only one God (in
  particular that sun and moon are not - just lamps).

-- 
Helmut Richter










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