0153 Okay, let me say this all again, while looking at day two of the Creation Story.
0154 To start, here is the Lost World confounding.
The hylomorphe is what the Lost World approach regards as the object of inquiry. The form of the object of inquiryentangles a natural sign-relation.
0155 Once one realizes that what is formed in each Genesis day stands for the matter that is being portrayed from a God’s eye point of view, then Walton’s insistence that each Genesis day pertains to the generation of (human) order and not the material cosmion becomes problematic.
Why?
The day’s form (SVSI) stands for what is being portrayed (SOSI) in regards to a natural sign of that day’s divine mediation3 (SISI).
This explains why, in the history of Christianity, the Latin concepts of creatio ex nihilo and creatio continua are subject to intense debates.
0156 This also explains why Christians in the modern world intuitively suspect that the Creation Story is a sign of the evolutionary record.
This examination presents the first explicit semiotic framework for such an implicit abstraction.
0157 If the confounding resolves in favor of the entanglement, then inquiry into how Genesis One is a sign of the evolutionary record is empowered.
0158 See Razie Mah’s e-book, Exercises in Artistic Concordism, available at smashwords and other e-book venues.
0159 Walton’s Lost World Project offers many advantages, but one of them is not an excuse to avoid the potential dangers of a comparison of the Creation Story and the Earth’s evolutionary record. All confoundings are dangerous. Yet, some of them are as wondrous as miracles.
Here is a picture comparing Walton’s and Mah’s results.
