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Further reinforced by the parallelism of Rain, Man; Rain, Man (A, B; A, B):
Yes, and these two parallel solutions address the two parallel problems noted in the beginning of verse 5: there were no wild desert plants, and there were no cultivated plants. (See the
excellent study on this passage by Mark Futato.)
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." — Albert Einstein
I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives us a lot of factual information, puts all of our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity. Science sometimes pretends to answer questions in these domains, but the answers are very often so silly that we are not inclined to take them seriously. — Erwin Schroedinger
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