Daily Archives: August 21, 2008

“The World”: A Sonnet by Christina Rossetti

By day she woos me, soft, exceeding fair:      But all night as the moon so changeth she;      Loathsome and foul with hideous leprosy And subtle serpents gliding in her hair. By day she woos me to the outer … Continue reading

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Evolution v. Creation Metaphor Watch: Did the Author of Genesis 1 Think That He Was Writing Poetry—or History?

In one respect, the tension between evolutionists and creationists is not over the nature of science, but over the nature of genre. In other words, did the author of Genesis 1 mean to write something in the genre of POETRY—or was he … Continue reading

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