Was God a Terraformer?

[TIP]

This isn't a really new idea. I remember hearing it in my Old Testament class almost 20 years ago.

I'm also still waiting to hear why Genesis has two distinct versions of the Creation story.

Mmmm....ribs.

[Greygor]

This isn't a really new idea. I remember hearing it in my Old Testament class almost 20 years ago.

I'm also still waiting to hear why Genesis has two distinct versions of the Creation story.

Well Phil Collins had a different interpretation to Gabriel's

[James H]

According to them there used to be an enormous body of water in which monsters were living, covered in darkness, she said.

"The name's Buford T. God: Monster Fighter"

[GelfXIII]

Arthur C. Clarke formulated the following three "laws" of prediction:

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

[Gregory]

Well Phil Collins had a different interpretation to Gabriel's

Why the angel Gabriel thought a red dress and fox head was a good idea, God knows. Maybe.

[Dusto]

I'm also still waiting to hear why Genesis has two distinct versions of the Creation story.

Well, there are two explanations for that.

Most people contend that Genesis is an amalgamation of three previous texts: the Elohist text (in which Elohim creates the world), the Yahwist text (in which YHWH creates the world), and the Priestly text (which doesn't have creation story in it, so you can forget about it for the purposes of your question). These three were later edited together into one holy text.

Dave Sim, however, maintains that God (Elohim) created the world, and that's the first creation story you get, and that Yoohwooh (YHWH) then tells a separate (untrue) story in which he/she/it created the world.

In English translations, you can tell Elohim from YHWH by whether it says "God" or "the Lord."

[James Patrick]

What if God was Optimus?
Just a truck like Optimus!
Trying to save our homeeeeeee

[maverick-99]

God as a scientist. I like the notion.

[The Dean]

God as a scientist. I like the notion.

Then you need to read Jack Kirby's Eternals or Inhumans. Maybe even Silver Star...

[adam_warlock_2099]

God was the High Evolutionary?

Well he did name the first man Adam.