Yes. This guy that answered me on Christian forums sums it up well:
"Genesis 1 isn't a scientific text. It's not about a journalistic, wooden accounting of material origins; but a theological proclamation of the good Creator God investing purpose and meaning into His good creation; the crafting of the sacred spaces of His dwelling, and filling them.
Simultaneously, the text is a theological polemic that demotes and de-divinizes the cosmic powers which other Near Eastern cultures worshiped.
As far as the spaces and their filling, notice the parallel:
Day 1 - Light and separation of day and night;
Day 4 - Creation of sun, moon, and stars to
fill and rule the day and night.
Day 2 - separation of waters, sky and sea;
Day 5 - Creation of fish and fowl to fill and
rule the sky and sea.
Day 3 - separation of dry land from water;
Day 6 - Creation of land dwelling beasts to fill
and rule the dry land.
The final creative act is to place the Divine
Image itself into this temple of creation--mankind, to act as God's image-bearers and priests to care for the good creation of God. Genesis 1 is theology, not science. It's not a how of material creation, but a why and what.
-CryptoLutheran"
Walton's book is called "The last world of Genesis one". It's incredibly thorough, but is apparently the tip of an iceberg of the full thing. He's supposedly working on a follow up on the flood.
"Genesis 1 isn't a scientific text. It's not about a journalistic, wooden accounting of material origins; but a theological proclamation of the good Creator God investing purpose and meaning into His good creation; the crafting of the sacred spaces of His dwelling, and filling them.
Simultaneously, the text is a theological polemic that demotes and de-divinizes the cosmic powers which other Near Eastern cultures worshiped.
As far as the spaces and their filling, notice the parallel:
Day 1 - Light and separation of day and night;
Day 4 - Creation of sun, moon, and stars to
fill and rule the day and night.
Day 2 - separation of waters, sky and sea;
Day 5 - Creation of fish and fowl to fill and
rule the sky and sea.
Day 3 - separation of dry land from water;
Day 6 - Creation of land dwelling beasts to fill
and rule the dry land.
The final creative act is to place the Divine
Image itself into this temple of creation--mankind, to act as God's image-bearers and priests to care for the good creation of God. Genesis 1 is theology, not science. It's not a how of material creation, but a why and what.
-CryptoLutheran"
Walton's book is called "The last world of Genesis one". It's incredibly thorough, but is apparently the tip of an iceberg of the full thing. He's supposedly working on a follow up on the flood.
