Inherit the Wind
We saw Inherit the Wind at Geva today. Without going into too much detail the play is a dramatization of the Scopes trial where they were arguing evolution versus creationism, intelligent design, etc. There's this part where the defense attorney is questioning the prosecution attorney and he's talking about Gensis and he asks him how they defined the first four days of existence if the sun wasn't created until the fifth or whatever. "So the first day of could have lasted, say, ten million years if there was no sun to define it." I've always had a problem with a rigid literal interpretation of the Bible. I think human error, translation issues, cultural bias, and the metaphorical nature of some of the text makes it a tricky document to take word-for-word. I don't know. It was a cool play. Defenitly worth seeing if you're not busy this weekend (It was extended to this weekend, but it's over after the first or second or something. Actually, I suggest making yourself un-busy if you at all can. It's totally worth it. There's a lot I could say about it, but I actually just wrote a critique of it for class and I don't really feel like elaborating anymore.
In other Geva news (like I have that much Geva news), I was getting worried that they didn't pick my script for the Young Writer's Festival thing, but, according to Ms. Baker, my worrying is premature. They haven't made the selections yet. So, I should save my worrying for a week or two when they don't pick it then. Ha.
Today was the second-to-last band concert I'll ever perform in. Haha, remember all those "lasts" I've been experiencing lately? Well, this one doesn't count, obviously. It's second-to-last. It was a memorable concert, though. Let's just say we played a neat arrangement of Jurrassic Park and a certain someone decided to march on stage in an elaborate dinosaur costume. Mr. Hoffman, although he was completely uninformed, didn't even flinch as he was conducting. As a matter of fact we were almost positive he didn't see anything until he mentioned it later in the concert. We were hoping he would watch the tape tomorrow and be totally suprised by it. Oh well. It was still funny. He said he's not sure if he's mad or if he thinks it was funny yet.
I'm excited for tomorrow. I got a lot of homework done so this weekend isn't going to suck as bad as I thought it was going to.
posted by Timo @ 9:36 PM
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3 Comments:
The Bible wasn't wrriten to be taken literally. No one has ever calimed eveery word of a story si true because the stories weren't written to be a history book/record book....like wow this year someone lived until age 4876098476....no obviously no one lived hundreds of years....its like in movies when tehy say that it is basedon an actual event....it sin't only the actual event because that wpuldn't hold anyones attention.....the Biible was written to etach lessons and encourage faith.....
Madelyn
ps.....look i commented on yours too
There are a lot of people...fundamentalists they call 'em...who believe in a strict interpretation of the Bible. The world is 6,000 years old. Adam and Eve were real people. Eden was an actual place. Huge man-eating fish. Sun-stoppage. Great Flood, etc.
I defenitly agree with you, though. About the lessons and this and that.
Only in America, well not only, but mostly, do people interpret the Bible as true. And how you say do the American people interpret a document full of paradoxes to be truth? The answer: they're all schizophrenic crazies, descended from the original schizophrenic crazies, the Pilgrims.
My thoughts
-Big Brother
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