The competitive advantage of ideas that are easy to understand

crjmurray said:

And some people actually understand the material and are aware that big words are necessary to get the point across.

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Big words make my head itch.

Strathos said:

How much time passes between Genesis 1 and Genesis 2?

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None.

Genesis 2 is embedded in Genesis 1.

When Genesis 1 closes, Genesis 2 has already come and gone.

(Incidently, if you want to avoid a chapter or verse becoming a link, just hit the spacebar twice between the book and the chapter.)

OldWiseGuy said:

Big words make my head itch.

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Well you don't have to get psora about it!

(I made that up! )

AV1611VET said:

None.

Genesis 2 is embedded in Genesis 1.

When Genesis 1 closes, Genesis 2 has already come and gone.

(Incidently, if you want to avoid a chapter or verse becoming a link, just hit the spacebar twice between the book and the chapter.)

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Thanks for the tip. But you are saying the events of Genesis are not in chronological order?

Strathos said:

Thanks for the tip. But you are saying the events of Genesis are not in chronological order?

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The events in Genesis 1 are in chronological order.

The events in Genesis 2 are in chronological.

Just insert the chrolologically-correct Genesis 2 into the chronologically-correct Genesis 1, and you'll get the whole picture.

Genesis 1:26 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.
Genesis 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Genesis 2: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Genesis 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Genesis 2:20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Genesis 2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
Genesis 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Genesis 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 1:28 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.

AV1611VET said:

Genesis 2:20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

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Did Adam also name the thousands of dinosaurs?

I've read the Bible and come to the conclusion that the big book of multiple choice can be "interpreted" in just about any way you want to. Interestingly it adds to the hilarity by the following passage 1 Corinthians 14:33

Mister_Al said:

When someone gives a complex answer it just means that they don't understand the subject well enough to be able to express that answer in simple terms.

Alan

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i would tend to agree.
i think genomics just simply eludes any simple explanation.
have you read any papers on this subject?
most of this stuff makes my eyes cross by the time i'm halfway through them.
terms and phrases are introduced that were unheard of 20 years ago.
i've seen concepts that reminds me of the "look ahead carry" that is used in computers.
you definitely get the feeling that this stuff was envisioned by some kind of super intelligence.
you don't get this feeling when looking at man made complexity.
for example, the saturn 5 rocket, touted as the most complex machine ever built.
but yet all of its parts are familiar to a good many people, and most can understand its operation.
the most complex thing about the saturn 5 are the equations in its computers.
this simply isn't true with microbiology, where almost everything is new and novel.
ATP synthase for example, i don't think this machine has ever been envisioned by man, i've certainly seen no patents on it.
the coding of DNA, it seems so simple in concept, but yet it has defied all attempts at putting it into program that can verify bacteria to man.

like one microbiologist has said:
"the only rule in evolution is that there are no rules"

When you are dealing with simple minds you must keep it simple, if you can not keep it simple you will lose them,
religion is simple, tell the simple person [children preferably] a simple story and tell them it's true, once they believe it they will add anything else that's needed themselves, if you are really good you can even make them believe that what they believe was originally their own idea and they were not prompted by anyone to believe what they believe, the fact that the most religious people in the world just happen to be the most simple people in the world bears testimony to this.

Put simply, backward countries produce mostly backward people who are the most religious.

referring to the religious as simple minded isn't a good idea.

Jan Volkes said:

Did Adam also name the thousands of dinosaurs?

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Youbetchumindeedydoskiville.

asherahSamaria said:

I've read the Bible and come to the conclusion that the big book of multiple choice can be "interpreted" in just about any way you want to. Interestingly it adds to the hilarity by the following passage 1 Corinthians 14:33

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What you forget though is that, no matter how It is interpreted, Phd-driven hilarity cannot be avoided.

I've noticed over the years someone say something, and it result in hilarity.

Then I say just the opposite, and it results in hilarity.

I've even agreed with them, and it resulted in hilarity.

I sum that phenomenon up this way:

It's not what we say that matters, it's what we are.

whois said:

referring to the religious as simple minded isn't a good idea.

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It relieves the pressure.

AV1611VET said:

I'll bet.

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Rudiments can mean the elements on the periodic table.

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Rudiments can also mean a drum beat -- why listen to you?

asherahSamaria said:

I've read the Bible and come to the conclusion that the big book of multiple choice can be "interpreted" in just about any way you want to. Interestingly it adds to the hilarity by the following passage 1 Corinthians 14:33

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The passage refers to the true God and to the true church. It is the false god and the false church that are funny (in a demented kind of way).

TLK Valentine said:

Rudiments can also mean a drum beat --

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Why not both?

After all, evolution is a form of witchcraft.

Doesn't voodoo use drums?

AV1611VET said:

Why not both?

After all, evolution is a form of witchcraft.

Doesn't voodoo use drums?

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Evolution is as much witchcraft as Christianity is cannibalism.

TLK Valentine said:

Evolution is as much witchcraft as Christianity is cannibalism.

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If that's a reference to the Lord's Table, then you don't know how that works, do you?

In any case, I justified my stance with etymology.

Justify yours.

AV1611VET said:

If that's a reference to the Lord's Table, then you don't know how that works, do you?

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I know what transubstantiation is -- do you?

In any case, I justified my stance with etymology.

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No, you didn't.

AV1611VET said:

Youbetchumindeedydoskiville.

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Iknowit'sonlyagame.