Genesis, the early years

1) In the beginning God created heaven and earth. Earth was just a formless, dark, giant marble at that point. Then he said let there be light, and went on to divide the light and darkness to make day and night.

If there was no light in the beginning, wouldn’t there be darkness? Darkness is just the absence of light. How is light and dark divided? In what way would it have been homogeneous before it was divided?

And earth was created before any stars? Not in my universe. The current estimate of the age of the Sun is 30 million years older than the Earth.

2) Then god created the firmament, a solid dome that surrounds the earth, holds the stars in place, and separates heaven and earth.

Do I even have to comment on this one?

3) Then god put water on the earth and called it the sea and where there was no sea, he called it land. On that same day, he then created grass, herbs, and fruit bearing trees.

These forms of vegetation use photosynthesis as their method of energy production. Life was on Earth for upwards of a billion years before photosynthesis began. These earlier forms of life would ultimately be killed in droves by the toxic oxygen the photosynthesizing plants would create. That period is called the oxygen crisis. But those earlier life forms shouldn't worry about photosynthesizing lifeforms because god hasn’t even created the sun yet.

4) On the fourth day, god placed lights in the firmament to provide light, divide day from night, and to identify seasons and years. The bible then says, in addition to dividing day from night, the lights separate light from darkness.

I thought light was already separated from darkness on the first day. Doesn’t this book have an editor? Lights were placed in the firmament (the solid dome that rotates around the stationary Earth) so we are able to tell what the date is? This vast and incredible universe full of stars emanating light that has been in transit to us for billions of years was put in place just so humans can tell when labour day is? And what of this visible light? If it is to be visible for Adam, who will be here in two short days, god will have to create the light on route from the stars, otherwise Adam won’t see them for a long, long time.

5) Then he created moving water creatures, including whales, and he created birds.

It’s interesting that whales are mentioned, as they are evolved from land animals, which haven’t been created yet, as with birds also.

6) Then he created land creatures, everything that creepeth upon the earth. Finally he created man, a special kind of beast, created in god’s own image. And god gave man dominion over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Man has dominion over everything that move on the earth? What about bacteria, another one of god’s lovely creatures he just created. Did man have dominion over bacteria during the black plague which killed 30% to 60% of the population of Europe? Here’s a better question: why doesn’t the bible even mention bacteria?

Man was made in god’s image? This is a throwback from religions anthropomorphising their gods. Zeus looked like a man, Baal looked like a man, etcetera. The author believed god looked like us. This is confirmed in Genesis 18 when god hangs out with Abraham in his tent. Eventually god would evolve into a burning bush, but would ultimately turn back into a man for the Christians.

7) And on the seventh day, god rested.

Even god deserves a day off. So, on the seventh day, god completely ignored Adam. Adam’s prayers would not have been answered, he would not have been taken care of. I wonder if god does that every week.