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Technosoul · Oct 12, 2004, 01:35 pm

From out of the blue I have discovered a new interpretation concerning the so-called 7 day creation story mentioned in the Bible.

It is really a story about the history of science. The first purpose of science is to name everything, because without words as names for everything we cannot communicate and so knowledge could not have been passed around from between one another or down through the generations. In naming everything we get into the science of noting the differences found in the natual environment as a species and so forth.

The names then allows us to mentally seperate one item from another so that it is not just "one blob" of everythingness. So the story is about the creation of names which would be the creation of human terminology.

"and the light was called daytime and the darkness was called night"

And the water was called the sea, and the dry places were called the land".

This was not about the creation of day and night, or about the creation of land and water, but about creating names for the different aspects present. A diffferent name for the sky and for earth, etc.

The story goes on to talk about how the plants were named and the fowls in the air, and each thing that creeps on the earth. It was all about the creation of our educational system (schools of reading and writing) and not about which day something was created by magic. The creation of names is what the story was speaking about - about creating the word that was in the beginning of human history.

Because history is what was written and pre-history was the unwritten part, because history depends on recording names and other forms of human communication symbolism.

As the story continued we see then that Adam (meaning mankind) was instructed to continue the science of naming things - as Adam was told in that story to start naming all the animsls he saw. So that instead of just one name "animals" for them all we sould have individual names like cows, lions, groundhogs, goats, etc.

Now when that story was written in it's final version people already knew about the 6 day work week and about resting on the 7th day - due to the teachings of Moses, and so a week mainly just represented a time frame for starting a job and ending it before Saturday ( which we now have changed to Sunday).

Even that idea was part of the history of science because it employed scientific knowledge about our solar system - due to the fact that the planet earth came to rest in the 7th orbit around the sun. If you count in from Pluto (instead of counting outwards from the sun).

I am not sure how the biblical history of science was changed into it's present day missconception.

Technosoul.

Oct 12, 2004, 01:35 pm	#1 (permalink) (top)
Technosoul Volcanic Erupter Posts: 8,663	From out of the blue I have discovered a new interpretation concerning the so-called 7 day creation story mentioned in the Bible. It is really a story about the history of science. The first purpose of science is to name everything, because without words as names for everything we cannot communicate and so knowledge could not have been passed around from between one another or down through the generations. In naming everything we get into the science of noting the differences found in the natual environment as a species and so forth. The names then allows us to mentally seperate one item from another so that it is not just "one blob" of everythingness. So the story is about the creation of names which would be the creation of human terminology. "and the light was called daytime and the darkness was called night" And the water was called the sea, and the dry places were called the land". This was not about the creation of day and night, or about the creation of land and water, but about creating names for the different aspects present. A diffferent name for the sky and for earth, etc. The story goes on to talk about how the plants were named and the fowls in the air, and each thing that creeps on the earth. It was all about the creation of our educational system (schools of reading and writing) and not about which day something was created by magic. The creation of names is what the story was speaking about - about creating the word that was in the beginning of human history. Because history is what was written and pre-history was the unwritten part, because history depends on recording names and other forms of human communication symbolism. As the story continued we see then that Adam (meaning mankind) was instructed to continue the science of naming things - as Adam was told in that story to start naming all the animsls he saw. So that instead of just one name "animals" for them all we sould have individual names like cows, lions, groundhogs, goats, etc. Now when that story was written in it's final version people already knew about the 6 day work week and about resting on the 7th day - due to the teachings of Moses, and so a week mainly just represented a time frame for starting a job and ending it before Saturday ( which we now have changed to Sunday). Even that idea was part of the history of science because it employed scientific knowledge about our solar system - due to the fact that the planet earth came to rest in the 7th orbit around the sun. If you count in from Pluto (instead of counting outwards from the sun). I am not sure how the biblical history of science was changed into it's present day missconception. Technosoul.