Sunday, July 10, 2005
WHICH creation story?
Great editorial in today's New York Times:
Christian creationists won too much of a victory for their own good in Tulsa, where the local zoo was ordered to balance its evolution science exhibit with a display extolling the Genesis account of God's creating the universe from nothing in six days. A determined creationist somehow talked three of the four zoo directors, including Mayor Bill LaFortune, into the addition by arguing that a statue of the elephant-headed god Ganesh at the elephant house amounted to an anti-Christian bias toward Hinduism.
Read all about it.
--ER
Christian creationists won too much of a victory for their own good in Tulsa, where the local zoo was ordered to balance its evolution science exhibit with a display extolling the Genesis account of God's creating the universe from nothing in six days. A determined creationist somehow talked three of the four zoo directors, including Mayor Bill LaFortune, into the addition by arguing that a statue of the elephant-headed god Ganesh at the elephant house amounted to an anti-Christian bias toward Hinduism.
Read all about it.
--ER
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Can't get the whole story because I ain't a member. Why don't they represent Marduk defeating Tiamat Creation story. Or the rise of the Primeval Hill above the chaos water of Egypt. And if there will be a "Creation" represenatation, does that go against image making? Hmmm.
I was thinking Izunami and Izanagi. Then the zoo would have to find two Japanese children to find...Which parts of them fit together, and create the universe. In an exhibition environment.
I was also wondering how one would go about representing the creation of the universe according to the bible in an exhibit. It'd be a pretty large exhibit.
I was also wondering how one would go about representing the creation of the universe according to the bible in an exhibit. It'd be a pretty large exhibit.
Then there are the American Indian creation myths. Here's a link to a whole slew of 'em: http://www.runningdeerslonghouse.com/webdoc14.htm
Thanks, Melancholy. You are the only person to ever comment on my Erasmus quote (y'all, it means roughly, "thrown together, not edited," which Erasmus used to describe one of his translations of the Bible). I was in my last seminar for an M.A. in history, on the Reformation, when I started this blog.
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