Genesis: Dominion and the Environmental Crisis of our Time (Part 1 of 2)

Is the Bible to blame for an over-heated, over-crowded world whose fate hangs in the balance in Copenhagen? Sir David Attenborough caused a small uproar when he told the journal Nature that the Book of Genesis, with its instruction to go forth and multiply and have dominion over the earth, had encouraged human recklessness. In two arresting visual essays by a young American film-maker, Steven Ounanian, we hear an alternative view from a range of scholars, philosophers and commentators. Taking friendly issue with Attenborough, they offer their own readings of the Creation story, with all its subtle messages about humans, nature and knowledge.

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[levonatron]

Watch trees of knowledge, there are even more in there!

[EastofForever]

"humans are to rule *in proxy of God* When a King would leave his kingdom back then,he would leave someone in place who would lead LIKE THE KING WOULD and DEAL WITH PROBLEMS EXACTLY AS THE KING WOULD.

Sir Dingbat: you do not help things by coming to your hasty conclusion, finding 4th-rate "scholars" and using them as a diving board for us all to jump into your preordained conclusions.

Smart people:read "Dominion:The Power of Man,The Suffering of Animals& the Call to Mercy"by Matthew Scully.

[EastofForever]

Mr. Attenborough: please stick to what you know something about. whatever that may be.

who is "Margaret Baker?" ....who is this "Jonathan Bartley" and what is an "Ekklesia Thinktank?" 1:45 into this and I'm thinking "huh-oh.....it's looking like a slam-dunk job going on here." I especially like this Baker woman's "setting the table" for what's likely to come with "....and whoever was ruling at the time could determine what 'dominion' means."

Bullshit. "Dominion" in Genesis to (continued)

[geopan123]

As dangerous as it is to say that Adam was a man who lived in a garden, with Eve, his wife, etc., etc. - i.e. to be literalistic, it is just as dangerous to say it is simply a parable used to convey a mystical truth. This is going from one extreme to another. Yes, the parable is there, and yes, Adam is, at one level, representative of humanity. Yet, to declare unequivocally that "This means that" and "That means this", we miss the "I don't know" of God's unknowable mystery. This is untenable.

[geopan123]

As dangerous as it is to say that Adam was a man who lived in a garden, with Eve, his wife, etc., etc. - i.e. to be literalistic, it is just as dangerous to say it is simply a parable used to convey a mystical truth. This is going from one extreme to another. Yes, the parable is there, and yes, Adam is, at one level, representative of humanity. Yet, to declare unequivocally that "This means that" and "That means this", we miss the "I don't know" of God's unknowable mystery. This is untenable.

[rstabosz]

Excellent video. I blogged it.

[kershawwma]

big bang should be upper case too: "Big Bang"

[kershawwma]

typo at 7:42