It's not, really. There are 101 defensible forms.
Maybe He set up physical laws with the express purpose of harboring life (see: arguments from fine tuning; there are loads of physical constants that only need to be tweaked by a fraction and you end up with just a mess of subatomic particles).
Personally, I'm an automation engineer (and former inorganic chemist) and think the universe is something like His software simulation. When you play any computer game with a procedurally generated world, things are created in categories in a way that is optimal for the creator, not in sequential, time bound order that obeys the created world's internal laws.
In my day job, I regularly take control systems that follow perfectly repeatable logic and insert live values that cause them to 'jump' to a different state (e.g. after a mechanical failure, when a control system is stuck in a catch 22). If you 'lived' inside my PLCs you could extrapolate backwards in time (or scan count) to past states 100% rationally and precisely...and wrongly.
Basically, you will end up with a Bible that is as silly as you want it to be if you decide in advance that it's dumb and you're going to assume the author was stupid. That's how books work.
I was an atheist at one point, for me the Gospels were the works that changed my mind.
It's not, really. There are 101 defensible forms.
Maybe He set up physical laws with the express purpose of harboring life (see: arguments from fine tuning; there are loads of physical constants that only need to be tweaked by a fraction and you end up with just a mess of subatomic particles).
Personally, I'm an automation engineer (and former inorganic chemist) and think the universe is something like His software simulation. When you play any computer game with a procedurally generated world, things are created in categories in a way that is optimal for the creator, not in sequential, time bound order that obeys the created world's internal laws.
Basically, you will end up with a Bible that is as silly as you want it to be if you decide in advance that it's dumb and you're going to assume the author was stupid. That's how books work.
I was an atheist at one point, for me the Gospels were the works that changed my mind.