re: #203 Sharmuta

And Genesis wasn’t written by God, but by very limited men trying to explain something beyond their comprehension. It’s not a science book.

If we had received Genesis as a complete chemical and physical explanation of the creation of the universe, we would have eaten it, or built a shrine for it, but we sure wouldn’t have kept it alive. Young cultures needs stories. Old cultures keep telling them, and finding more meaning in them and behind them.

My theory, which I know I’ve posted here before is that the difference between Genesis and modern science is the difference between telling a child that when a Mommy and a Daddy want to have a baby the baby grows in Mommy’s tummy, and an adult’s understanding of sex, love, marriage, family, genetics, culture, heritage…it’s not a lie you tell the little one, it’s what she or he can understand at first.