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As part of my research, I read "The Creation of Domestic Currencies" by the Princeton professor Viviana Zelizer, who studies the way economics and emotion intertwine.
It is tempting to read the creation poem and the garden story in Genesis as being at cross-purposes with each other.
"When we read the creation story in Genesis we run the risk of imagining that God was a magician, with a magic wand which is able to do everything," he said.
But when they took their creation (read: the creation of a large team of uncredited engineers) on the Avon for a spin, hilarious japes ensued, including unwitting patrons of a riverside restaurant getting drenched.
So it's no surprise that it makes me read the creation story sort of... upside down.
The way we've been taught to read the creation account in Genesis very clearly focuses and limits God's cosmogonic act to us earthlings alone.
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He read the two creation stories as referring to two different types of creation, the first concerned with ideal Platonic forms and the second with everyday matter.
My most influential college course began with an assignment from the Book of Genesis: we read the two different creation stories that coexist there.
"When we read the account of Creation in Genesis, we risk imagining that God was a magician, complete with an all-powerful magic wand.
"Go back to Genesis and read about the Creation," he told The Boston Globe in 2004.
It has always read like the creation of a kid in a 12th-grade government class who almost made it to the end of the semester and suddenly thought, "Hey, waitaminute, what if some of these guys are bad???" For all the evil of Underwood and his henchmen, surrounding characters are risibly sincere.
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