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where the fiat is followed by a statement broader than 
the fiat itself. After calling for certain creatures with 
which the water was to swarm, it tells us in the next 
verse, that God was the creator of them and of ‘‘ every- 
thing that moveth.’’ 
And so in regard to land animals; the fiat calls for 
certain creatures. The next verse says, God was the 
maker of them, and of every ‘‘creeping’’ (or moving) 
thing. Hence the story claims for God creatorship not 
merely of the fauna which came into being then, but 
of any and all, even though their pedigree ran far back 
into the past. There were in each of these horizons 
animals coming from horizons farther back, some reach- 
ing (notably various mollusks) from the Eocene to the 
present day. God’s creatorship is made to include them 
also. 
It is evident such a central idea might have been set 
forth in various ways. ‘The writer might have made a 
bare statement that God made the universe and its con- 
tents. Orto have impressed it more deeply, he might 
have gone into details, and, taking item by item, in any 
order that they met his eye as he looked about him, have 
said that God made each. Thus he might have said : 
God made man. 
God made the cattle and all land creatures. 
God made all water creatures. 
God made all plants. 
God made the sun and moon and stars. 
God made the dry land and the sea, and so on. 
Tt all would have been true, and it would have been a 
mental flight far beyond anything else in ancient litera- 
ture. 
It is possible, too, that the writer might have placed 
the plants and animals in their true order. One might 
guess right two or three times, but when we consider 
that this harmony, or order, is even more marked in the 
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