The tree that the islanders are forbidden to eat from is a reference to the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the biblical creation.
In geology lay the evidence for an old earth, and evolution, or a young earth and biblical creation.
Zimmer's first case study concerns a change foreshadowed in distinguishing the fifth and sixth days of biblical creation - the Paleozoic transition from fishes to four-footed animals (tetrapods), when vertebrates first crossed from water to land.
He was a critic of traditional views of the biblical creation, and argued that biblical criticism could be applied to interpreting Sacred Scripture.
WOULD the discovery of life on Mars be a blow to the idea of biblical creation?
His goal may well have been as a way to contrast the flawed products of mankind with the perfection of nature (and hence, in the spirit of the times, of biblical creation).
The biblical creation, I thought, was also the truth of evolution.
Isaac La Peyrère appealed in formulating his Preadamite theory of polygenism to Jewish tradition; it was intended to be compatible with the biblical creation of man.
He led the organization's successful challenges to Louisiana's scientific creationism law, which was an attempt to teach biblical creation in the public schools, and to New Jersey's moment-of-silence statute.
The Israelis quickly named the June 1967 event the Six-Day War to echo biblical creation.