Peg writes:
an earth without form does not mean 'non existing'
especially considering the watery deep was existing in the same verse. If the watery deep was covering the entire earth as is likely the case, then its quite accurate to say the 'earth' was without form.
I sure am glad science does not use such loose definitions, otherwise we would have 30,000 different infallible tomes and 30,000 different cures for cholera.
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. - the character Rorschach in Watchmen
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