Chapter 6: The Lost of World Genesis One

This chapter deals with day 4 to day 6. The previous chapter deals with day 1 to day 3. In this chapter, the author proposes that the days are more about setting up the functionaries. Thus the first three days are parallel to the next three days. The author did not give this table, but I understand him to be saying something like this table: 

Day 1	Light	Day 4	Two Great Lights and stars
Day 2	Firmament	Day 5	Sea-Sky Creatures
Day 3	Dry Land/Vegetation	Day 6	Land Creatures

Significant in this chapter is the creation of human being. Like other species, human being too has a function to multiply. But they also have another important function: to take care of the rest of the created order. The idea that human being is made in the image of God signifies the idea of function, though there possibly are other meanings. Unlike other literature where the rest of the creation is for the benefit of the deity, the biblical  narrative focuses on human being; such that human being serves as the important link between God and the rest of the created order. 

There is the text that says the land is to produce living creatures. The author argues that these texts are not about the material composition of the animals.. When the children ask 'mummy, where from did I come?' The children are not given an explanation of how fertilisation takes place; they are just told '...from mummy or from hospital'. Thus the land (or mummy) is the location of where the animals ( or children) come from., not the material origin of the land ( or children).