On 17 May 2009 at 18:36, Gabe Eisenstein wrote:
What replaced Jim's theory as the dominant topic of the list was a[snip]
theory saying that Genesis was written by many of the characters who
appear in it, beginning with Adam (or, excuse me, with God). I don't
think I need to start listing the hundreds of tenuous assumptions
involved in this hypothesis, but they must include a very young earth,
an incredibly fast spread and differentiation of human populations and
cultures, and Hebrew as the mother of all languages.
I'm not sure how you got to the idea that this theory requires all of these things, but it
doesn't. There's nothing implicit in what language the earliest records were kept in, or even
what was the "mother of all languages." The age of the earth has nothing whatsoever to do
with it. We're talking about a literary theory related to structure and genre, nothing more.
Dave Washburn
Ibuprofen, Hebuprofen, Shebuprofen, Theybuprofen, wouldn't you like to be a profen too?
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