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🗓️ 21 May 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the ancient tradition. |
0:12.6 | A Wonk Media production. |
0:15.0 | Music provided by Joseph McDade. |
0:19.0 | Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan. |
0:30.5 | Welcome to the program. |
0:32.1 | I'm your host, Jack Logan. |
0:34.5 | So happy to have you back and welcome to all of our new listeners. So glad to have you with |
0:39.3 | us as well. We have a great program today. I'm anxious to jump right in and get started. I want to |
0:45.3 | start with a brief recap from last episode. We started with the creation. Why? Because that's |
0:51.4 | where the ancients started by addressing the greatest mystery in the world, |
0:55.5 | how life came to be. The ancients assigned extraordinary importance to the creation, |
1:02.4 | which in scholar speak is known as the cosmogany, the story of the origin of the universe. |
1:10.1 | And in this episode, we'll delve a little more |
1:12.2 | into why they started with the creation |
1:14.0 | and why they felt it was so important to begin there. |
1:18.9 | We also established that the ancients didn't tell |
1:22.3 | radically different creation stories. |
1:24.8 | From van der Schlush's research, |
1:26.6 | we learned that the ancients told a strikingly |
1:29.8 | similar story of how the universe, the earth, and life came to be. And they told that same story |
1:35.2 | all over the globe, from hemisphere to hemisphere and continent to continent, as improbable as that |
1:42.1 | would seem, which Vandersluse contends that the uniformity of the creation story is, quote, |
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