On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Patricia Keith-Spiegel wrote: > > I send the > complaining students to the book of Genesis where they will > find not one, but TWO stories of the creation. I ask them to > locate the one where life starts out as firmament, then comes > along things swimming in the sea, and after that some crawl > up onto firm ground, then some fly, then come along humans at > the very end of the process.
I've heard this claim of two creation stories in the Bible before, probably on TIPS, but for the life of me, I could only think of one--the Adam and Eve story. I suppose I could follow the directions given and read the book of Genesis, but it might save time if someone could provide me with chapter and verse. As these stories are presumably contradictory or at least different accounts, I wonder how those who accept the Bible as literal truth reconcile them. I'm not asking to be provocative, but out of curiosity. How can two different accounts of how God made the world and all its creatures both be true? And if one is false, how does this square with the belief that the Bible contains the inerrant word of God? (Forgive me, I didn't mean to restart the religion thread. Perhaps we'll have to change the name of TIPS to Theology in Psychological Science). -Stephen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stephen Black, Ph.D. tel: (819) 822-9600 ext 2470 Department of Psychology fax: (819) 822-9661 Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Department web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy Check out TIPS listserv for teachers of psychology at: http://www.frostburg.edu/dept/psyc/southerly/tips/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
