{"id":6860,"date":"2023-11-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=6860"},"modified":"2023-05-27T14:17:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T14:17:55","slug":"looking-at-andrew-ter-ern-lokes-book-2022-the-origin-of-humanity-and-evolution-part-4-of-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=6860","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Andrew Ter Ern Loke&#8217;s Book (2022) &#8221; The Origin of Humanity and Evolution&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(Part 4 of 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0036 Of course, none of this sign business shows up in Loke&#8217;s chapter three, concerning&nbsp;<em>the time span of creation,<\/em>&nbsp;or chapter four, concerning&nbsp;<em>the process of evolutionary creationism<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nonetheless, the sign business is relevant because we are moving upstream from the falls along the metaphorical Nile.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yes, this is the one on&nbsp;<em>the map that we altered with a pencil<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0037 We regard the seven days of creation (A), while looking though abstractions that are typical of our current Lebenswelt (B).&nbsp;&nbsp;In doing so, we cross a epistemological boundary between scripture and science (C), which must imply that a conversation may take place.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, can a conversation proceed if one of the conversants says that each Genesis day is literally true and is composed of&nbsp;<em>what we current label a &#8220;day&#8221;?<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;Yes, if the Creation Story is a sequence of visions (D).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0038 Here is a picture of&nbsp;<em>the corresponding Greimas square<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Slide11-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Slide11-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Slide11-4.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Slide11-4-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Figure 11<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0039 The focus is&nbsp;<em>the first Genesis Creation Story<\/em>&nbsp;(A, sign-vehicle).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contrast is&nbsp;<em>the idea that each day keys into Peirce&#8217;s typology of natural signs<\/em>&nbsp;(B, sign-interpretant).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The actual correspondences (C) speak against the idea (B), just as any&nbsp;<em>application of an idea<\/em>&nbsp;speaks against&nbsp;<em>the idea<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Since when are ideas perfectly applied?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0040 For example,&nbsp;<em>the end of<\/em>&nbsp;<em>day three<\/em>&nbsp;associates with&nbsp;<em>the earliest photosynthetic life,<\/em>&nbsp;which looks like slime.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yes, mats of green or red or purple slime, bearing according to their slimes.&nbsp;&nbsp;So, the visionary must be a little perplexed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In day three, the Genesis text breaks the previous pattern, by mentioning two creations in one day.&nbsp;&nbsp;The associations are to&nbsp;<em>the formation of the earliest continents<\/em>&nbsp;and to&nbsp;<em>the earliest appearance of life on Earth,<\/em>&nbsp;which includes photosynthetic bacteria, which form colorful mats on most anything wet.&nbsp;&nbsp;In fact, the slime looks like anything but fruit trees bearing fruit and plants bearing seed.&nbsp;&nbsp;These bacteria do not have chloroplasts, the photosynthetic organelle in almost all multicellular plants.&nbsp;&nbsp;They are the precursors to chloroplasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0041 Consequently, the application of the idea of sign typology requires some interpretive flexibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Slide12-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Slide12-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Slide12-4.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Slide12-4-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Figure 12<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0042 But, that does not mean that&nbsp;<em>the interpretant of sign-typology<\/em>&nbsp;does not work.&nbsp;&nbsp;Rather, the idea seems even more promising, because the vision (D) is necessarily mind-boggling.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0043 Consider three titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Creation Story and Evolution<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Genesis One As A Sign of the Evolutionary Record<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Creation of Man and Human Evolution<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These titles are over twenty years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, they are as fresh as the dawn of a new&nbsp;<em>Age of Understanding<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0036 Of course, none of this sign business shows up in Loke&#8217;s chapter three, concerning&nbsp;the time span of creation,&nbsp;or chapter four, concerning&nbsp;the process of evolutionary creationism. 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