Genesis/Guitar Sector
Why I Believe At Least Parts of Genesis: (cont.)
3: The proto-serpent/dinosaur connection:
A few thousand years before Darwin, in the oral history of a semitic
group in the Middle East, Genesis contended (de facto) that the serpent
had a predecessor (a pre-snake, proto-snake, foresnake?) which did not
crawl on its belly. Nowadays most people believe that ancient reptiles
were much taller, larger, and for the most part didn't crawl on their
bellies but were bipedal, quadrapedal or flew or swam. Yes, lizards
are quadrapeds, but they are built close to the ground.
Renaissance era painters usually show the serpent looking pretty
much like modern serpents, when depicting the fall of man. Probably
because their minds boggled at the concept of a snake that didn't crawl.
To sum up the proto-serpent idea:
Common non-biblical belief 500 years ago: Things are pretty much the
way things have been Genesis: Once proto-snake did not crawl on its
belly, then was cursed and crawled on its belly (If part of the curse
was that it was to crawl on its belly, then it probably didn't crawl
on its belly before).
Modern theory: Early reptiles were generally huge and for the most
part did not crawl on their bellies. The time line defintely does
not agree, by about 160,000,000 years or so if I recall right. But
otherwise it seems to me that parts of Genesis are much more
in
agreement with modern science than recent human history.
4. Also two of the major pyramid builders, Mayans and Egyptians,
both used an ideographic written language, independent of their spoken
language. This is opposed to a phonetic alphabet which would be linked
to the spoken language. People using ideographs would much better
withstand a confusion of their spoken language. It was of course a
confusion of language which according to the Genesis account disrupted
the building of the tower of Babel.
Also, apparently the Sumerians, who built a towerlike building called a
ziggurat, used a hieroglyphic based written language before they changed
to a cuneiform type writing.
The fact that two of the ancient pyramid builders also were users of
ideographs while people at the tower of Babel were unable to complete
their work because of language problems seems consistent. Once again,
time lines don't agree. It's a bit of a reach, but I believe the
consistency strengthens the case for Genesis being factual.
5. Intuitive judgement or something or faith.
RELATIONSHIP OF GENESIS TO CREATIONISM
Some of this information does sort of relate to
creationism, but the main focus the article is on Genesis.
But the information also does seem to relate to the
crreationism-evolution disagreement. I am not a pure
creationist (I am not certain how things were created,
perhaps in a gradual manner) but I do believe in at
least parts of Genesis as stated.
Also I am aware of the carbon dating evidence, geological
stratas, radioactive isotopes, etc., and I can't explain the
time differences. Perhaps there is another explanation for
the time lines. Nevertheless, the information in Genesis
seems to indicate that Genesis is at least partly correct.
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