Seven Days In Reverse

Genesis 1:1 - 2:4

The Biblical seven day account of creation is an allegory, a mnemonic for a people just beginning to preserve their collective memory by way of worshiping their One Supreme God. The symbolic days represent the millions of centuries that passed before our memory was born. 

They, the people of Abraham, would tell and retell this and other stories for thousands of years, both before and after they developed the ability to write it down.

Does it astound you that the Hebrews' collective memory stretches back into everyone else's prehistory? It does me.

The Bible starts with the first day; let's call it "Sunday." I'm going to start with the seventh day, "Saturday," and work backwards. After that, you can look at the chart I made to compare the Bible to Science.

So here it is -- the seven days of creation backwards:

Day 7 - Resting is for those who have been working. You might ask why God needed to rest at all. Two things; first, God set the example for His people, and B, biological evolution had done its thing. It was time for God to to let social evolution happen, and to raise one particular community of brand new humans.

Day 6 - There would be no social evolution without humans to socialize in the first place, and there would be no humans if other mammals hadn’t evolved before us.

Day 5 - Mammals couldn’t have evolved if fish, reptiles, and birds hadn’t already been here.

Day 4 - None of our species would have evolved as we are unless She (Earth) had settled into the Goldilocks zone around the star we used to call Sol (Am I the only one who thinks it's a better name than "the Sun?").

Day 3 - Plants are important. They evolved from the cosmically seeded building blocks of microorganisms and early plant forms. Of course, our plants wouldn't exist unless there was both land and water.

Day 2 - The Earth didn’t always have an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere. In addition to the gasses she spewed from her molten core, cosmic accidents and the laws of gravity provided water and additional gasses to clothe our infant Mother goddess Earth  (molten core -- how common is that cosmically speaking? (No...really...I want to know)).

Day 1 - Mother was born of star stuff, so the stars must have already been created. Creating stars in a void -- man -- that sure would take a Big Bang -- “Let there be Light!”

Day	Bible	Science
1	Shapeless and void	The Plank-time before…
	“Let there be Light”	…the Big Bang
	Separates day from night	Planets form, and are lit by their respective stars on one side at a time.
2	Makes the sky	Gasses and water begin to form an atmosphere
3	Separates water and land	Pangaea, one land mass in the middle of a vast ocean.
	The Earth brings forth plants	Microorganisms and plant forms leap into the long process of evolution
4	Lights in the sky. Sun Moon Stars	Earth and Moon settle into their orbits. The Sun takes a seasonal course, and the Moon goes through phases. The shifting constellations make moving pictures in the sky.
5	Fish, reptiles and birds	Fish, reptiles and birds
6	Mammals and Man	Mammals and Man
	God gives it all to Man	Mankind is Earth’s dominate species.
7	God rests and blesses the day	WEEKEND!

I guess all that took around 168 hours -- give or take fourteen-billion years.

OK -- I hear you -- you want to know if the man was the first man ever.

Yeah…ummm…errr…NO

For now, let’s say that he was the first man the ancient Hebrews knew of. Their first man was the first named ancestor of King David and the High Priests of Israel. To them, Adam was the first man in the world. That only makes the Hebrews just like most of the other ancient peoples who had their own first men.

The best way to understand Adam's origin is to tell the story.

Next time: Awdawm-ish and Awdawm-ishah 

It's never too late to use the comments section; ask questions, talk among yourselves; it’s all good...

It would be very cool if you would ask any nagging Bible questions you might be carrying around. I’m not saying I can answer all of them, but I bet I can do weekday posts on most of them, and at least address the rest.

Peace Out, Y’all.