How Genesis 1 Should Have Been Written

earthenwood watched "Waking Life" with me today. Fun and thought-provoking! Of all the people with whom to watch a film composed of interminable lectures full of wise-sounding bullshit, if you select me as your viewing partner, you could do far worse. I will replace them with my own interminable lectures of wise-sounding bullshit. ;)

This reminded me of the following faux-religious text I wrote several years ago. Since then I have gotten much better at keeping my eyes open to the world around me rather than on abstractions. Bear with me in Chapter One-- the territory is guaranteed nebulous and difficult no matter what. Ready to rush in where angels fear to tread?

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I've been asked how I would formulate a "creation" story if I did not accept the one in Genesis. First, I do not believe it is "creation," so it is not going to be a creation story. But in the spirit of the question if not the letter, here is an "origins story" I would accept. Several times I am quoting from Douglas Adams, such as most of chapter four.

( Chapter 1-- Irreducable Primaries )

( Chapter 2-- Cosmology )

( Chapter 3-- Life )

( Chapter 4-- Consciousness )

( Chapter 5-- Evolution in History )

Footnote 1: For more information on the probability of abiogenesis, see Ian Musgrave's essay Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and Probability of Abiogenesis Calculations.

Footnote 2: Chapter 4, verses 10 through 15 are paraphrased with only minor changes from the speech Is There An Artificial God? delivered by Douglas Adams and published posthumously in The Salmon of Doubt.