Friday, September 25, 2009

Dry land Earth

1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

So we get a 4th and 5th name from God.  And it's clear that this is in fact the "creation" of earth.  Also, we again have an insecure God checking that it's good.

Besides that, there's not much new here.  Let me take this opportunity to present a hypothesis about the rather mysterious waters above the heaven.

Right now, we have a 3-level universe.  At the bottom, we have the earth on one side and the seas on the other.  Above that, we have the heaven.  And above that, more waters.  This is the world view being described, a world view that someone must have thought was reasonable.  I don't have a problem with the flat earth or single sea; those are pretty understandable conjectures for someone who didn't grow up after the moon landing.  But why would someone think there is water above heaven?

This is my theory: When you look at the ocean, it looks blue.  And when you look at the sky, it looks blue.  So, perhaps someone thought a good answer to that ageless question "Why is the sky blue?" was "Because there's an ocean behind it." or "Because it's an ocean."  So, the waters above the heaven are obviously there to make the sky blue.

This is only a guess.

This theory, then, would make heaven either the atmosphere or the sky.  Which brings me to an odd point about myself.  Now that I think about it, I'm not really sure what the sky is.  Is it the same as the atmosphere?  Is it some not-really-there blue backdrop above the atmosphere?  Is it just what you see when you look up?  I just tested that idea, and that's definitely ceiling, not sky.

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