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plants and animals
"Creation—Living Creature" from LDS.org. 
Accessed November 10, 2013 from
http://www.lds.org/media-library/images/gospel-art/old-testament?lang=eng.

By Dean John R. Rosenberg from the Brigham Young University Humanities Department:

"The solution for our periodic faltering is the syntax of creation: the orderly sequence in which things unfold as Creators plan, counsel, and watch together.  The sequence is necessary and inalterable.  First there is light so that what is created might be watched.  Then the earth and skies are separated, and the celestial clocks - moon, sun, and stars - are wound and put in place to mark time.  Dry land pushes out of the sea, and anchors the roots of all variety of vegetation.  Complex organisms fill the sea and then the land, and now that the earth is built, Eve and Adam move in.  Then God rests.  The narrative tells us that at each state the Gods declared that what had happened on that day was "good": they do this eight times in the Book of Moses.

"Things that matter submit to the syntax of creation.  We grow day by day, line upon line, experience by experience.  Unreasonably, sometimes we seek Day Seven privileges on Day One or Two, or we demand of ourselves expertise or excellence that more properly should be assigned to another day.  God could not put animals on the land until they had something to eat; he could not cultivate vegetation until there was dry land; dry land was not possible until it was separated from the seas; and the sea first had to be divided from the firmament.  And of course, first, there had to be light.  What I find reassuring is what God did not do.  At the end of Day Five he did not say, "after all this work and all this time, all I have to show for my effort is fish."  What He did say was that "all things which I had created" up to that time "were good."  So it is with our education, our careers, and our relationships.  We may not be finished, but we can be acceptable - sufficient unto the day."

Work Cited:
Rosenberg, John R. (Fall 2013).  "From the Dean: The Syntax of Creation." Humanities at BYU.  Provo, UT: College of Humanities, p. 2-3.

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