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The Bible:Genesis 1

In Genesis 1, we begin our second glance at the order of creatures with the following observation:  The six days of creation are organized quite clearly into two parallel groups of three:  Days 1-3 and Days 4-6.  Day 1 brings light; Day 4, the heavenly lights (cosmos).  Day 2 brings heaven, separating waters above from the waters below and that fly before the blue heaven (earth’s atmosphere).  Day 3 and 6, in parallel, double creations, giving them preeminence in their respective triads.  Day 3: first the earth or dry land; and second, the plants, put forth by the earth. Day 6: first, the land animals, second, man.

This observation prepares the next: the second 3 days bring creatures that all have locomotion: the heavenly bodies, the fish (sea animals) and fowl (avian species), the land animals, and humans (adam/adami) all move. None of the creatures of the first 3 days can move.  Moreover, the mobile creatures are arranged in order of progressively greater freedom of paths; all living things (fish, fowl, beasts can change their planar paths as well as instinctual paths) move in set and prescribed ways, governed, as we would say, by largely fixed instincts; man alone moves in paths and ways that can set for himself (at least in part).

The main principles at work here are Place, Separation, Motion, and Life, but especially Separation and Motion.  Places are regions necessary for the placement of separated kinds of beings and backgrounds for the detection of their motion, whereas life may be looked at-at least at first glance-as a higher and more independent kind of motion.  Further, one can treat locomotion as a more advanced kind of separation, in which a distinct being already separated from others also separates itself from place. Thus, we could say that the fundamental principle through which the world is created is separation. Creation is the bringing of order out of chaos (Charles Darwin) largely through acts of separation, division, and distinction.

This however is true in theory only, as the law of entropy (2nd Law of Thermodynamics) contradicts the theory of evolution in the area of application.

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Not sure what the mention of Charles Darwin is doing in the third paragraph.  The last paragraph is total nonsense, and has been addressed so copiously and in so many places it’s hardly worth even citing any counterarguments, but this is a good place to start