Someone said to me, a little while ago, that God created the world in six days (with a day off on the seventh to chill). Though I knew this had been accepted for centuries as literally true, I thought that such views had mostly passed the way of the dodo. I was tempted to argue the point with him but then I thought some more about it. It is obviously crazy to say that God created the world in six DAYS, but perhaps it was perfectly plausible to say that creation, generally speaking, takes six STEPS.
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