{"id":1911,"date":"2009-11-25T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/11\/completed-review-of-john-walton-the-lost-world-of-genesis-one\/"},"modified":"2009-11-25T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T14:39:00","slug":"completed-review-of-john-walton-the-lost-world-of-genesis-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/11\/completed-review-of-john-walton-the-lost-world-of-genesis-one.html","title":{"rendered":"Completed Review of John Walton, The Lost World Of Genesis One"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I\u2019ve been blogging through the chapters of John Walton\u2019s book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0830837043?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0830837043\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0830837043\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/em> for several months, and now that I\u2019ve finished, here are links to all the posts in the series:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/review-of-lost-world-of-genesis-one.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Introduction\/Proposition One <\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/review-of-lost-world-of-genesis-one_31.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Proposition Two<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/review-of-lost-world-of-genesis-one.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Proposition Three<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/review-of-lost-world-of-genesis-one_02.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Proposition Four<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/review-of-lost-world-of-genesis-one_06.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Proposition Five<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/review-of-lost-world-of-genesis-one_07.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Proposition Six<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/review-of-lost-world-of-genesis-one_09.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Proposition Seven<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/review-of-lost-world-of-genesis-one_10.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Proposition Eight <\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/review-of-lost-world-of-genesis-one_11.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Proposition Nine<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/review-of-lost-world-of-genesis-one_12.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Proposition Ten<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/review-of-lost-world-of-genesis-one_21.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Proposition Eleven <\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/review-of-lost-world-of-genesis-one_23.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Proposition Twelve<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/review-of-lost-world-of-genesis-one_29.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Proposition Thirteen<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/review-of-lost-world-of-genesis-one.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Proposition Fourteen<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/review-of-lost-world-of-genesis-one_08.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Proposition Fifteen<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/review-of-lost-world-of-genesis-one.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Proposition Sixteen<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/review-of-lost-world-of-genesis-one_19.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Proposition Seventeen<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/review-of-lost-world-of-genesis-one_20.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Proposition Eighteen<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/review-of-lost-world-of-genesis-one_23.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Conclusion<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7658885196779032400?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been blogging through the chapters of John Walton\u2019s book The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate for several months, and now that I\u2019ve finished, here are links to all the posts in the series: Introduction\/Proposition One Proposition TwoProposition ThreeProposition FourProposition FiveProposition SixProposition SevenProposition Eight Proposition NineProposition TenProposition Eleven Proposition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Completed Review of John Walton, The Lost World Of Genesis One<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;ve been blogging through the chapters of John Walton&#039;s book The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate for several months,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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