The Genesis Hypothesis | Chapter 1

Planet of the Skeptics

Genesis Chapter 1

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.    3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. 6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called the Seas: and God saw that it was good. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.    14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. 20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

1 - 2: What about the other planets? What is this "heaven"? How can earth have be created without form and void? If there is no form to the earth, how can a "spirit" move across the face of the waters?    3 - 4: God speaks light into existence and then separates it from darkness. (The existence of darkness is dependent on the absence of light. How can God separate something that's existence depends on it's separation from the other?) Why is an all knowing being patting himself on the back for his creation? 5: *Day 1 complete Light and Darkness created and separated from each other. 6 - 8: God needed a way to separate the waters so there would be earth based water and sky based water. God created a solid divider called Heaven. So Heaven is in between the sky-based waters and earth-based waters? 8: *Day 2 complete Heaven created (which he was to have created already in the first verse) and uses it to separate the waters above Heaven from the waters below Heaven. 9 - 10: God gathers all the waters from the land into one place and calls them "the Seas". (If it’s all gathered in one place, why is called the Seas rather than the Sea?) God gave the dry land permission to appear, which he called Earth. "God saw that it was good." – I  get it! You make something and you are happy with yourself for it.    11: Plants created (trees,herbs, grass,etc) 12: In case you skipped the last verse, plants were created. He thought he did a good job again. (This is starting to become narcissistic.) 13: *Day 3 complete Plants created. 14 - 18: God created stars and placed them in Heaven, to provide light to Earth. One Light for day and one for Night. Note 1: Scientific Fact: moonlight comes from the same source as daylight! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight Note 2: Stars are beyond the water in the sky. In fact the closest one - the Sun - is between 146.5 - 149.5 million kms away. This distance is known as 1 astronomical unit or 1au. Note 3: If the Earth had no light until the fourth day, how did the plants survive? Scientific Fact:  Plants require photosynthesis. 19: *Day 4 complete Stars created. Light and darkness separated, again. 20: God commands that the sea creatures that hath life be brought forth from the waters and birds to fly in the "open, solid layer of heaven".  Note 1: If God hasn't created any creatures yet, how can those already alive to come forth from the waters. And the fowls in the sky? Note 2: So Heaven isn’t Heaven but the sky? Plausible if not for the previous assertion that stars were placed in Heaven?!? 21 - 22: God created birds and sea creatures “after their kind”. God saw that it was good." This narcissism is really annoying. Wikipedia defines Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) as "...a personality disorder in which a person is excessively preoccupied with personal adequacy, power, prestige and vanity." 23: *Day 5 complete God created sea creatures and birds. 24 - 25: God created land animals. He made them after their own kind (Wait. If he created them, how can they be made after their own kind? How can the initial animal be modeled after itself?). 26 - 28: God makes man/woman in his image. Shouldn't humans be invisible then? I guess this explains the narcissism of humankind. God commands that humans should have lots of sex and make lots of babies. He further orders that humans restore and control the earth, as well as having control over all other creatures on earth. Is this why some people don't feel the need to have empathy towards non-human animals? 29 - 30: God tells man and woman that they could eat of all the trees and herbs that bear seeds. That they should treat it as though it is meat. God tells humans (who are new to earth and have never eaten a thing) that they can eat the fruit and plants. Since they have no concept of food God explains that it is like eating meat? 31: *Day 6 complete God creates all land animals, including humans.