Wednesday, July 4, 2012

In The Beginning, Physics Was Optional

So the first thing God did, according to Genesis 1, is create the heavens and the earth, both of which were mostly completely composed of water. I imagine it looked something like this:



God then got around to creating light, and everything looked like this:


I swear I'm not doing this because I'm lazy...

God was getting sick of monochrome, so he made another blue thing for some reason. (Read about Rayleigh scattering if you just assumed you knew the answer to why the sky is blue). 


Okay, so maybe I am.

Everything was still way too boring, so God put a big rock smoother than a billiard ball in the middle of the apparently formless mass of water.




God finally decided to get down to business and started making plants. How he expected the plants to survive without the sun, I don't know.



The next day, God invented photosynthesis and calenders. And by that, I mean the sun and the moon and stuff. Not sure why these weren't included when he created day and night.


On the fifth day, God created animals and blamed them on the interns.



Now, there is some chronological inconsistency when it comes to the account of humanity's origin. Genesis 1:27-31 says that both men and women were created on the sixth day. However, Genesis 2:4-25 says that Adam was created before there were any plants (the third day), and Eve was created after the animals (the fifth day). The Creation Museum (whose exhibit is pictured below) wasn't fazed by that, though, so I will just say this:



As a post-script, someone apparently googled "how to tell the story of Abraham and Lot to kids" and was linked to my blog. I hope they got some good info.