02-09-2022, 07:12 AM
The poem, again:
The Order of Things
First light, and above the formless Earth
an opaque sky; below, a primordial water world.
The sun and moon then appeared through clouds,
and once dry land had formed, plants that signaled life.
Suddenly, there was an explosion of fish and fowl,
then, on land, multitudes of mammals. And finally, us.
The order of things, as science has shown,
how were they known, 40 centuiries ago?
known/nōn/: recognized, familiar, or within the scope of knowledge.
Wthin the scope of knowledge available thousands of years ago I still find it fascinating that folks were smart enough that they recognized some semblance of the order of things. I did not change the order of those six "days" within the way I paraphrased the "days" of Genesis in the first six lines of the poem, knowing full well of the inaccuracies.
Of course, science easily blows holes in the order described in Genesis, but Genesis is not science, or a theory, it is an interesting story. And if I'm praising anything, it is the ingenuity and intelligence of humans well before scientific methods were even developed.
Even if it were just some largely forgotten ancient text, and not part of a book that has been studied for centuries, I would still be impressed that people noodled through a creation story as well as they did. Not a bad attempt at trying to explain things at a time when the vast majority of people were illiterate. Those writers were definitely *creative*.
I approached this subject as a poet, not a lawyer. If y'all want to continue to prosecute your cases, have at it. I'm glad that I could provide the poem as "exhibit A".
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. I'm on to the next one...
The Order of Things
First light, and above the formless Earth
an opaque sky; below, a primordial water world.
The sun and moon then appeared through clouds,
and once dry land had formed, plants that signaled life.
Suddenly, there was an explosion of fish and fowl,
then, on land, multitudes of mammals. And finally, us.
The order of things, as science has shown,
how were they known, 40 centuiries ago?
known/nōn/: recognized, familiar, or within the scope of knowledge.
Wthin the scope of knowledge available thousands of years ago I still find it fascinating that folks were smart enough that they recognized some semblance of the order of things. I did not change the order of those six "days" within the way I paraphrased the "days" of Genesis in the first six lines of the poem, knowing full well of the inaccuracies.
Of course, science easily blows holes in the order described in Genesis, but Genesis is not science, or a theory, it is an interesting story. And if I'm praising anything, it is the ingenuity and intelligence of humans well before scientific methods were even developed.
Even if it were just some largely forgotten ancient text, and not part of a book that has been studied for centuries, I would still be impressed that people noodled through a creation story as well as they did. Not a bad attempt at trying to explain things at a time when the vast majority of people were illiterate. Those writers were definitely *creative*.
I approached this subject as a poet, not a lawyer. If y'all want to continue to prosecute your cases, have at it. I'm glad that I could provide the poem as "exhibit A".
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. I'm on to the next one...