Steven G. Brandt over at The HUffington Post (rapidly becoming a Writ favorite, after only two days!) has this marvelous thought that should delight my religious friends:

Okay… get ready to merge two apparently diametrically opposed thoughts…

Biological life on Earth evolved slowly over billions of years (including occasionally disruptive events, like the hit that took out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago). However, biological life made the evolutionary leap into being SENTIENT in an instant. In that instant, life on Earth became CONSCIOUS of being alive…and the first experience life was aware of was “light verses dark”. (ie. “Let there be light!”) Then it became aware of sound. (ie. “At first there was the Word.”) I am convinced that what Genesis in the Bible refers to is the attempt to describe BIOLOGICAL LIFE BECOMING SENTIENT. And in “six days” (give or take a few years), the life on Earth that was now sentient developed the ability to comprehend what being sentient was all about.

I can just imagine the collective “Holy shit! What do we do now?” thoughts of those early beings…given how dangerous their environment must have been back then. (Think: the opening scenes from the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”.) But that’s a subject for a future post. 😉