(January 20, 2015 at 1:23 pm)robvalue Wrote: Genesis is a hoot. It's like a non-stop insight into the primitive knowledge and assumptions of the actual authors. Or their ability to steal stories from previous mythologies and patch them together. Which is not very good, hence parts happening more than once and in different ways. Dumbasses.
Not so much dumb as simply telling just-so-stories around the campfire for generations, then finally writing them down. The "dumb" comes in when people start to believe the stories.
"Tell the one again about Where Language Came From, Grandpa!"