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A Science & Religion Commentary 14 The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. 15 I will put enmity between you and the…

A Science & Religion Commentary 15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. Wendell Berry has a book of essays entitled “What Are People For?”, which is a provocative question. Genesis 2:15 is one place where we find a glimmer of an…

A Science & Religion Commentary So out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to…

A Science & Religion Commentary 22 God blessed [fish and birds], saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 28 God blessed humankind, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the…

A Science & Religion Commentary And God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon…

A Science & Religion Commentary Genesis 1:3 3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. Even some reputable scientists seem to support speaking in this fashion. The astro-physicist Robert Jastrow famously described 20th century discoveries in astrophysics this way: “For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power…