understanding is a three edge sword

“According to the Book and its servants the universe is only

six thousand years old. It is only within the last hundred

years that studious, inquiring minds have found out that it is

nearer a hundred million.

During the Six Days, God created man and the other

animals.

He made a man and a woman and placed them in a

pleasant garden, along with the other creatures. they all

lived together there in harmony and contentment and

blooming youth for some time; then trouble came. God had

warned the man and the woman that they must not eat of

the fruit of a certain tree. And he added a most strange

remark: he said that if they ate of it they should surely die.

Strange, for the reason that inasmuch as they had never

seen a sample death they could not possibly know what he

meant. Neither would he nor any other god have been

able to make those ignorant children understand what was

meant, without furnishing a sample. The mere word could

have no meaning for them, any more than it would have

for an infant of days"

Letters from the earth - Mark Twain