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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is the week in which [[Biblical literalism|Biblical literalists]] believe [[God]] created all that exists. According to the first version, the work was done over six days, and began on the evening before [[James Ussher|Oct 23, 4004 BCE]] with the seventh day being a day of rest. No timescale is given for the second version. They are both described in the first two chapters of the book of [[Genesis]]. As Biblical literalists have a fondness for the [[King James version]], all references here are to that edition. | '''{{PAGENAME}}''' is the week in which [[Biblical literalism|Biblical literalists]] believe [[God]] created all that exists. According to the first version, the work was done over six days, and began on the evening before [[James Ussher|Oct 23, 4004 BCE]] with the seventh day being a day of rest. No timescale is given for the second version. They are both described in the first two chapters of the book of [[Genesis]]. As Biblical literalists have a fondness for the [[King James version]], all references here are to that edition. | ||
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Creation Week is the week in which Biblical literalists believe God created all that exists. According to the first version, the work was done over six days, and began on the evening before Oct 23, 4004 BCE with the seventh day being a day of rest. No timescale is given for the second version. They are both described in the first two chapters of the book of Genesis. As Biblical literalists have a fondness for the King James version, all references here are to that edition.
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First version
- Sunday: God creates light. The light is divided from the darkness, and "day" and "night" are named.[1]
- Monday: God creates a firmament and divides the waters above it from the waters below. The firmament is named "heaven".[2]
- Tuesday: God gathers the waters together, and dry land appears. "Earth" and "sea" are named. Then God brings forth grass, herbs and fruit-bearing trees on the Earth.[3]
- Wednesday: God creates lights in the firmament of Heaven, to separate light from darkness and to mark days, seasons and years. Two great lights are made, as well as the stars.[4]
- Note: God apparently wanted to make the most of humpday. The simple five-letter-word "stars" does not do justice to the monumental amount of work that must have been exerted to create the effectively countless number of stars in the universe.
- Thursday: God creates birds and sea creatures, including "great sea serpents" or "great whales". They are commanded to be fruitful and multiply.[5]
- Friday: God creates wild beasts (the goat came to be and there was much rejoicing), livestock and reptiles upon the Earth. He then creates Man and Woman in His "image" and "likeness". They are told to "be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it." Humans and animals are given plants to eat. The totality of creation is described by God as "very good".[6]
- Saturday: God finishes his work of creation, and rests from His work as Jack Bauer says, "I'll take it from here."[7]
Second version
To complicate things the second chapter of Genesis beginning in 2:4 has a different creation story. In this one the order goes as follows:
- Earth and heavens[8]
- Mist and water on the earth[9]
- Adam, the first man on what seems to be an empty earth[10]
- Plants[11]
- Animals[12]
- Eve, the first woman (from Adam's rib)[13]
Consequences of two creation stories
The existence of two contradictory creation stories would, you would think, be a problem for believers in full biblical literalism and young-Earth creationists. They seem to have no problem with it, as long as you accept at least one version.
Later interpretations
- Friday night arrives without a suitcase
- Sunday morning creeping like a nun
- Monday's child has learned to tie his bootlace
- Tuesday afternoon is never ending
- Wednesday morning papers didn't come
- Thursday night your stockings needed mending
Notice that in this version, the day of rest (Saturday) comes second.
Miscellanea
- Young Earth Creationists believe the creation literally took place in 6 days ending on Oct 23, 4004 B.C.E.
- Old Earth Creationists believe a wide variety of things but generally don't believe but that the 6 days refer to a 24 hour time period and happened 6-10,000 years ago.
- Rationalists tend to accept the evidence for the theory of evolution and the big bang theory.