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$\"Walton.jpg\"$ <\/span>We are in a conversation and discussion about John Walton\u2019s (professor at Wheaton) new book, The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

What about Day 1 to Day 3 in Genesis 1? Is this about materiality or about functionality? Walton argues that these three days show the viability of his thesis and they also can\u2019t be explained well with the materiality thesis.<\/p>\n

Day 1: it is not bringing light into material existence or darkness into material existence. Instead, Day 1 is about establishing time. In fact, you can\u2019t separate light from dark in a material sense. So Gen 1:3 means \u201cLet there be a period of light.\u201d That it is not material can be seen from the sun not being \u201ccreated\u201d until Day 4. What Day 1 is about is the functional use of light and darkness as ways of marking time.<\/p>\n

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Day 2: \u201cAnd God said, \u201cLet there be an expanse [firmament, dome] between the waters to separate water from water.\u201d So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. God called the expanse \u201csky.\u201d And there was evening, and there was morning\u2013the second day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walton argues that this is about making water functional for humans on earth; it is about weather. Day 2 is the creation of weather patterns. Day 2 does not lead us to ask if there are cosmic waters (firmament stuff) or if there is a dome that holds them up in the air. This is about controlling precipitation by describing it in terms of an ancient cosmology. We don\u2019t believe in that cosmology today, but the whole idea of the Creator establishing weather \u2014 that we do believe.<\/p>\n

Day 3 differentiates terrestrial space. Plants grow, drop seeds, and time germinates seeds into more plants. The cycle of nature is at work in Day 3. Day 3 is about the basis for food.\u00a0 We have then time, weather, and food \u2014 Day 1, Day 2, Day 3.<\/p>\n

Day 1-3 is Old World science. Accommodation is how we are to understand Scripture\u2019s capacity to speak in the terms of that world.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"