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0218 Chapters seven and eight cover the Fall<\/em> and God’s pronouncements in Genesis 3<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are more results of Walton’s scientific explorations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I leave the application of hylomorphe, entanglement, confounding and resolution to the reader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0219 Recall, a scientific paper contains five elements: introduction, methodology, results, discussion and conclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So does Walton’s book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0220 Chapter nine offers a discussion on Genesis and science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At no point in the discussion does Dr. Walton touch base with the following hylomorphes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0221 In regards to the Creation Story, Razie Mah’s Looking at Hugh Ross’s Book (2023) “Rescuing Inerrancy”<\/em> reviews what Walton is trying to avoid<\/em>.  Walton imagines that the entanglement of a moderate or an artistic concordism will turn out to be… um… dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Didn’t I say that confoundings are dangerous?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hugh Ross’s version of moderate concordism cannot rescue the doctrine of biblical inerrancy, because it offers only a miraculous coincidence between what the Genesis text for each day appears to be describin<\/em>g and a corresponding evolutionary epoch<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Razie Mah’s version of artistic concordism changes the character of the doctrine of biblical inerrancy,<\/em> because it offers a method<\/em> for showing that each Genesis day<\/em> offers natural signs<\/em> of a corresponding epoch<\/em>.  There are three types of natural signs: icons, indexes and symbols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0222 If the Bible is supposed to be plainly read, then why would an author write the Creation Story<\/em> as a vision that depicts the evolution of the Earth on the basis of natural signs?<\/em>  The author could not possibly had known the natural history of the Earth, unless having been presented with a series of visions<\/em>.  The text<\/em> breaks down into natural signs<\/em>bundled for each day, as images, indicators and symbols<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0223 It is enough to make John H. Walton swoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no way that Genesis 1-11 can entangle the modern… now… postmodern age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no way… except… for… that ever-churning Christian imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See Razie Mah’s e-book, Exercises in Artistic Concordism<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0224 In regards to the Primeval History,<\/em> all the written origin stories of the ANE<\/em> (except for the Creation Story) depict a recent creation of humans,<\/em> by newly differentiated gods, according to their designs and purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question is, “Why?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The civilizations of the ANE<\/em> cannot see past a theoretical time point corresponding to the start of the Ubaid archaeological period in southern Mesopotamia<\/em>.  They cannot see from our current Lebenswelt<\/em> into the Lebenswelt that we evolved in.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

0225 The first singularity<\/em> is currently a hypothesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As further research is conducted with this hypothesis in mind, we may eventually feel confident that the Ubaid<\/em> is the first culture in human evolution<\/em> to practice speech-alone talk<\/em>.  8800 years ago, all other cultures practice hand-speech talk, in continuity with the founding of our species 300,000 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over a period of a few thousand years, these hand-speech talking cultures<\/em> convert to speech-alone talk,<\/em> after being exposed to speech-alone talking cultures<\/em>.  Why do they adopt the new way of talking?  Hand-speech talk<\/em> promotes constrained social complexity<\/em>.  Speech-alone talk<\/em> removes the constraints<\/em>.  The semiotic qualities of hand-speech talk and speech-alone talk<\/em> are hugely different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0226 The above hylomorphes<\/em> are resolutions in favor of the entanglement<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Against this prospect, Walton configures his own confounding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0227 Will this be sufficient to stop the goofy, science-loving impulses of the Christian imagination?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t think so, because even if Walton’s confounding resolves in favor of his entanglement, the form of the resulting hylomorphe will entangle the Christian imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0228 The Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics<\/em> pulls up a fish<\/em> from the depths of the Christian Slavic civilization<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They open the mouth of the fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do they find?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The golden coin of entanglement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0229 Welcome to the Fourth Age of Understanding,<\/em> The Age of Triadic Relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0230 I thank John H. Walton for publishing this advance in the origins debate<\/em> and I wish J. Harvey Walton the best<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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