Sunday, November 6, 2011

What are the odds?

   One of the most amazing and provocative much overlooked feature of the Judeo-Christian scriptures is the Genesis creation account.  To summarize, there are six "days" of creation that are listed:
  1. Day one - the earth is created from a nebulous material.  It is described as "without form, and void."
  2. Day two - the earth is covered with water and thick clouds.  The earth's crust emerges from the water.
  3. Day three - First life forms emerge.
  4. Day four - Cloud cover dissipates revealing sun, moon, stars.  Mammals and diverse land and sea animals appear.
  5. Day five - Man appears
   There are three very important observations about this:
  1. The oldest original manuscripts of the book of Genesis, ascribed to Moses, are very ancient, certainly predeeding any knowledge about cosmology, geology, biology, etc
  2. Moses was raised by Egyptians, later was a sheep herder, later led the israelites out of Egypt.  Nothing in his resume seems to reveal any scientific knowledge about astronomy, geology, archeology, etc.
  3. The account of creation found here follows the general scenario of how we think the earth was formed .
   But the most amazing feature of this account is that the events are in the correct order.  What are the odds that a wilderness-wandering sheep herder could have gotten this right?  Where did he get this information?  The Egyptians were already building pyramids and doing other impossible things when Moses was there.  Did they know about it?

   Fellow seekers, I would like to see your ideas about this.

   Did the Great Engineer in the Sky tell Moses about this when He gave the ten commandments to Moses on mount Horeb?  Did ancient aliens visit the earth and tell him?  What happened here?

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