... (see especially Isa. 43:16-21). Creation-by-combat is common in the Bible (and in the literature of Israel's neighbors). The creation-by-word in Genesis 1 is unique in the Old Testament and to make it the biblical standard, as creationists do, is gratuitous on purely biblical grounds (Clifford ... on the model of human making or of natural activity. For example, the gods formed the world as an artisan works clay, or as a king's word makes things happen, or as a warrior defeats an enemy. Biblical writers did not draw the modern dichotomous distinction between "nature" and human beings, an...

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