Back in the 19th century, theologians noticed that in the Old Testament Book of Genesis, on the 5th and 6th days of creation (the day of God, according to Middle Eastern religious teachings, is millions and billions of times longer than the day of man) creates representatives of the terrestrial fauna in that order in which they appeared on Earth according to paleontological data.
First, "big fish" and "every soul of reptile animals, which the water has produced, after their kind"; "Every bird of the bird after its kind"; "The beast of the earth after its kind, and cattle after its kind, and every thing that creeps on the earth after its kind" (Genesis 1: 21,25).
"Separation of Light from Darkness" fragment of a fresco by Michelangelo Buanarroti. 1508-1512. Sistine Chapel, Vatican
This fact at one time amazed F. M. Dostoevsky: "Who said when there was no science?" - we read in his notebook. Indeed, who could have given such information to the author (or authors) of the first chapter of the Bible book? After all, the science of paleontology did not exist then!
And in oral or written tradition, these data could not reach him, since man appeared on Earth much later than the events described (in any case, traces of his earlier presence have not yet been found), which, by the way, is recorded in the Bible - God creates man last (Genesis 1:27).
Well, okay, let's say - an unknown author "remembered" the sequence of paleogenesis, with genetic memory he mentally repeated the path from ciliate to homo sapiens, as the human embryo physically repeats in the mother's womb. But how, how did he learn about what was happening on Earth in those days when there was no life at all on it and could not be?
How many generations of atheists laughed at the fact that light, according to the Bible, arose on the 1st day of creation, and the sources of light - the Sun, the Moon and the stars - on the 4th: what, they say, did the first three days shine? At the turn of the third millennium, when mankind began to better imagine the past of its planet, it was finally possible to understand the meaning of the ancient text and to understand its alleged contradictions. So what does it say?
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And it says that in the beginning there was the sky - the Cosmos and there was the planet Earth. Through the atmosphere, denser than nowadays, not a ray made its way to the surface of the Earth - the Earth was "formless and empty, and darkness over the abyss" (literally "over the ocean"); only the "Spirit of God" (literally - "wind, breath") "hovered over the water", which covered it all over.
Then a light dawned in the darkness; The earth revolved and nights began to turn to days; the air, previously oversaturated with moisture, became more suitable for life: "the water that is under the firmament" separated "from the water that was above the firmament", gathered in clouds and clouds that still completely covered the firmament; the first islands and continents emerged from the “water that was under the firmament,” and rose from the oceans.
On land appeared "greenery, grass sowing seed" and "tree bearing fruit": the presence of light made it possible for them to carry out oxygen and water exchange with the help of chlorophyll grains, to obtain the bioenergy necessary for life.
On the 4th day “in the firmament of heaven” the “luminaries” dawned; first appeared "two great luminaries: a larger one, to control the day, and a smaller one, to control the night", then the "stars"; came the 5th day, and animals began to be born (Genesis, I: 1-21).
As you can see, the point of view, the observer's location for all these billions of years has not changed: the observer did not see the "light", as well as the Sun, Moon and stars, until they dawned through the enveloping Earth-cloud layer, but he did not see the first representatives of the earth's flora - algae, did not see the inhabitants of the ocean depths - fish, crabs, sea stars, did not see insects - grasshoppers, butterflies, ants.
In other words, it did not rise into the upper, rarefied layers of the earth's atmosphere, did not submerge in the water of the earth's oceans and seas, and did not descend to the surface of the planet. This location of the "extraterrestrial object" is very accurately conveyed in the Vatican series of Michelangelo's frescoes based on scenes from the Book of Genesis.
The genius of the Renaissance was able to notice something that generations of learned commentators of the Bible did not notice: the main character of the 1st chapter is invariably in flight, and at a relatively low altitude. Only at the very beginning of the biblical story, the point of view of the mysterious object is different: it sees the “sky” (Cosmos) and sees the “earth”, not yet distinguishing its details.
So what was this object and how did the information collected by it end up at the disposal of the author of the Book of Genesis? Scientists have no answer to this question yet.
It is hard to believe in little green men with antennas on their heads making regular flights over our planet on an incoming saucer, with which the mass consciousness has populated all its white spots. If some forms of extra-planetary intelligence exist, scientists, philosophers, science fiction writers argue, these forms - let us recall the noosphere of V. I. Vernadsky - fundamentally different, different from the earthly.
The cited Old Testament text presents researchers with another problem. If the changes described in it that took place on Earth are confirmed by the data of modern science, does this mean that the assertion of its author that all these processes occurred as a result of the directed action of a certain mind, possibly collective (Elohim, plural from El, traditionally translated as "God", literally means "Strong, Mighty"), - also true?
The unusualness of this biblical story is also emphasized by the fact that another immediately follows it, in which God is depicted as an anthropomorphic being of Yahweh ("He Who exists": a usual for religious practice allegorical replacement of the taboo name of a deified ancestor, animal totem, etc..), and the history of the creation of man and all life on Earth - in accordance with the traditions of Western Semitic and world mythology and folklore (Genesis, 11: 4-25).
Here, in this story, it is narrated how “the Lord God created man from the dust of the earth,” and then, as “helpers” to him, “formed from the earth all the animals of the field and all the birds of the air”. Both "every shrub" and "every field grass" appeared only after man began to cultivate the land.
There is nothing mysterious about this story. Yahweh in her is like a man - like a potter, sculpts people, animals, birds from clay and, like a gardener, is angry with the kidnappers who plucked the fruits from the tree he had grown.
Judging by the apocryphal retellings of the Book of Genesis ("Book of Enoch", "Book of Jubilees", "Haggadah", etc.), it was the second option that was more familiar and understandable to the ancient Jews - the compilers and first admirers of the Old Testament, and not the one that preceded it, by the will of inexplicable circumstances turned out to be in their holy book, no one knows when and by whom told to the inhabitants of the Earth.
Author: V. Begicheva, from the book "Mysteries of Ancient Technologies"