Man Gave Names to all the Animals

[TrueTomHarley]

The beavers are hard at work out where I walk the dog. I wonder if they will cause back up flooding at the apartments where I don’t live. That outcome doesn’t concern them in the slightest. They will drive in upright poles and then fetch branches and sticks for the horizontal. Ponds form, and they use the waterways to float food and debris so as to build homes entered from below. 

 

They are all of them skilled engineers, all of them graduates of Dam U. When the kids were small and we would camp at Allegheny State Park, visiting beaver dams was one of the attractions. You had to go early in the morning and be very quiet—alarm them and they will dive out of sight after slapping the water with their tails to alert their buddies.

 

“Now Jehovah God had been forming from the ground every wild animal of the field and every flying creature of the heavens, and he began bringing them to the man to see what he would call each one; and whatever the man would call each living creature, that became its name.” - Genesis 2:19

 

Bob Dylan has explained just how this worked:

 

He saw an animal that liked to growl, Big furry paws and he liked to howl, Great big furry back and furry hair. "Ah, think I'll call it a bear."

 

He saw an animal up on a hill, Chewing up so much grass until she was filled. He saw milk comin' out but he didn't know how. "Ah, think I'll call it a cow."

 

He saw an animal that liked to snort, Horns on his head and they weren't too short. It looked like there wasn't nothin' that he couldn't pull. "Ah, think I'll call it a bull."

 

He saw an animal leavin' a muddy trail, Real dirty face and a curly tail. He wasn't too small and he wasn't too big. "Ah, think I'll call it a pig."

 

Next animal that he did meet. Had wool on his back and hooves on his feet, Eating grass on a mountainside so steep. "Ah, think I'll call it a sheep."

 

So it was pretty much like that. The Watchtower—no doubt others have said it as well—has written that Adam would have taken his time, observed unique characteristics, before naming names.

 

Let me see if I can do one:

 

He saw an animal that was great and gray, Swimming about freely every day. Catching its food without a fuss, “Ah, think I’ll call it a hippopotamus.”

 

And God said to Himself, ’Oh, come on!’ but he went with it.

 

[Friends just call me Ross]

There's a bucktoothed animal that swims and dives.

An engineering marvel, on building dams it thrives.

In performing skilled work, it's a firm believer.

Think I'll call THAT critter a beaver.  

 

 

 

[Thesauron]

The beavers are hard at work out where I walk the dog. I wonder if they will cause back up flooding at the apartments where I don’t live. That outcome doesn’t concern them in the slightest. They will drive in upright poles and then fetch branches and sticks for the horizontal. Ponds form, and they use the waterways to float food and debris so as to build homes entered from below. 

 

They are all of them skilled engineers, all of them graduates of Dam U. When the kids were small and we would camp at Allegheny State Park, visiting beaver dams was one of the attractions. You had to go early in the morning and be very quiet—alarm them and they will dive out of sight after slapping the water with their tails to alert their buddies.

 

“Now Jehovah God had been forming from the ground every wild animal of the field and every flying creature of the heavens, and he began bringing them to the man to see what he would call each one; and whatever the man would call each living creature, that became its name.” - Genesis 2:19

 

Bob Dylan has explained just how this worked:

 

He saw an animal that liked to growl, Big furry paws and he liked to howl, Great big furry back and furry hair. "Ah, think I'll call it a bear."

 

He saw an animal up on a hill, Chewing up so much grass until she was filled. He saw milk comin' out but he didn't know how. "Ah, think I'll call it a cow."

 

He saw an animal that liked to snort, Horns on his head and they weren't too short. It looked like there wasn't nothin' that he couldn't pull. "Ah, think I'll call it a bull."

 

He saw an animal leavin' a muddy trail, Real dirty face and a curly tail. He wasn't too small and he wasn't too big. "Ah, think I'll call it a pig."

 

Next animal that he did meet. Had wool on his back and hooves on his feet, Eating grass on a mountainside so steep. "Ah, think I'll call it a sheep."

 

So it was pretty much like that. The Watchtower—no doubt others have said it as well—has written that Adam would have taken his time, observed unique characteristics, before naming names.

 

Let me see if I can do one:

 

He saw an animal that was great and gray, Swimming about freely every day. Catching its food without a fuss, “Ah, think I’ll call it a hippopotamus.”

 

And God said to Himself, ’Oh, come on!’ but he went with it.

 

Somehow I can’t read your post. It all blends into the background. Please, make sure your text doesn’t have a set colour.

[TrueTomHarley]

20 hours ago, Thesauron said:

Somehow I can’t read your post. It all blends into the background. Please, make sure your text doesn’t have a set colour.

Sorry. I usually just copy and paste from elsewhere. That way I preserve photos, formatting, links, etc, and don’t have to insert them all over again. It doesn’t seem to cause a problem for most. A matter of browsers? What if I also include a link to the original?

 

https://www.tomsheepandgoats.com/2020/01/man-gave-names-to-all-the-animals.html

Edited January 16, 2020 by TrueTomHarley

[Qapla]

39 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:

I usually just copy and paste from elsewhere.

 

That is the problem ... many do this and the post is unreadable unless it is highlighted by the reader. It is just as simple to "Paste as Plain Text" as it is to "Paste". It may not preserve all the links but it leaves the text readable for everyone.

 

On a PC you can right-click and choose "Paste as plain text" or you can use the KB shortcut "CTRL-Shift-V" - especially if you are not trying to preserve links

 

BTW - Pasting as plain text DOES preserve the images ... if the links are that important the poster could add the links instead of making the reader do all the work.

[TrueTomHarley]

22 hours ago, Friends just call me Ross said:

There's a bucktoothed animal that swims and dives.

An engineering marvel, on building dams it thrives.

In performing skilled work, it's a firm believer.

Think I'll call THAT critter a beaver.  

 

 

 

I like it. This gets fun:

 

”He saw an animal building dams

flooding just like a jailbird on the lam

carving up waterways like with a cleaver

”ah,” think I’ll call it a beaver

[Thesauron]

Sorry. I usually just copy and paste from elsewhere. That way I preserve photos, formatting, links, etc, and don’t have to insert them all over again. It doesn’t seem to cause a problem for most. A matter of browsers? What if I also include a link to the original?
 
https://www.tomsheepandgoats.com/2020/01/man-gave-names-to-all-the-animals.html

A lot of people use dark mode to preserve their eyes and also batteries, or inverted colour schemes because of some issue they might have. Formatting forum text makes this a lot harder.

[TrueTomHarley]

40 minutes ago, Thesauron said:

A lot of people use dark mode to preserve their eyes and also batteries, or inverted colour schemes because of some issue they might have. Formatting forum text makes this a lot harder.

Okay. I’m chastened. I’ll play ball from now on.

[Newtonian]

Seriously, back in the late 1960's we thought it took Adam less than a year to name all the animals and thus ignored this time period in our calculation that led to 1975 being the 6,000th year of man's existence.

 

For us, we take some time - often over a month- to name a cat (for example).   Let us assume Adam took a year to name 24 animals (2 per month) and that there were 2,400 animals to name.   That would mean it took Adam 100 years to name all of the animals, and the 6,000th year of man's existence would be 2075.

 

I hope you all aren't taking me too seriously !

[Shawnster]

2 hours ago, Newtonian said:

For us, we take some time - often over a month- to name a cat (for example).   Let us assume Adam took a year to name 24 animals (2 per month) and that there were 2,400 animals to name.   That would mean it took Adam 100 years to name all of the animals, and the 6,000th year of man's existence would be 2075.

Why would you not count the 100 years it took to name the animals as part of Adam's life?  He was alive at that time. 

[Newtonian]

32 minutes ago, Shawnster said:

Why would you not count the 100 years it took to name the animals as part of Adam's life?  He was alive at that time. 

Yes, my mistake - I meant the 6,000th year of the 7th creative day - thank you for the correction!

 

I meant 100 years from 4026 BCE for Adam's creation and 3926 BCE for Eve's creation.   And I am not really serious about this but I have no idea how long it took Adam to name all the animals.    But I think this was finished before Eve was created.  The 7th creative day began after Eve's creation.

[Old]

On 1/16/2020 at 6:11 AM, TrueTomHarley said:

Sorry. I usually just copy and paste from elsewhere. That way I preserve photos, formatting, links, etc, and don’t have to insert them all over again. It doesn’t seem to cause a problem for most. A matter of browsers? What if I also include a link to the original?

 

https://www.tomsheepandgoats.com/2020/01/man-gave-names-to-all-the-animals.html

Not a problem here. Everything reads fine.

Should everybody conform to the needs of the few or should the few conform to the needs of the many?

[Shawnster]

31 minutes ago, Newtonian said:

Yes, my mistake - I meant the 6,000th year of the 7th creative day - thank you for the correction!

 

I meant 100 years from 4026 BCE for Adam's creation and 3926 BCE for Eve's creation.   And I am not really serious about this but I have no idea how long it took Adam to name all the animals.    But I think this was finished before Eve was created.  The 7th creative day began after Eve's creation.

Ah, I see what you are getting at.  The end of the 6th day was with Eve's creation.  You are assuming that Adam completed his work before Eve was created.  Is that a correct assumption, however?  

 

Eve was alone when Satan tempted her.  Adam was off doing something.  Was he working?  Was he naming the animals?  He definitely wasn't hanging out with the boys.

[Tortuga]

10 hours ago, Newtonian said:

Seriously, back in the late 1960's we thought it took Adam less than a year to name all the animals and thus ignored this time period in our calculation that led to 1975 being the 6,000th year of man's existence.

 

For us, we take some time - often over a month- to name a cat (for example).   Let us assume Adam took a year to name 24 animals (2 per month) and that there were 2,400 animals to name.   That would mean it took Adam 100 years to name all of the animals, and the 6,000th year of man's existence would be 2075.

 

I hope you all aren't taking me too seriously !

He could have done it a lot faster if he simply assigned numbers or called them all Fred. Unfortunately with the birth/death rate of most animals he would never finish! 

Perhaps Jehovah saw that it was taking forever for Adam to name his animals and that's why Jehovah gave him a helper...

[Newtonian]

19 hours ago, Shawnster said:

Ah, I see what you are getting at.  The end of the 6th day was with Eve's creation.  You are assuming that Adam completed his work before Eve was created.  Is that a correct assumption, however?  

 

Eve was alone when Satan tempted her.  Adam was off doing something.  Was he working?  Was he naming the animals?  He definitely wasn't hanging out with the boys.

Yes, that was my assumption but I forgot to take into account the Hebrew imperfect tense (action in progress not yet complete) in Genesis 2:18-22.   But verse 20 does imply that Adam had named all the animals and then Eve was created:

 

 

Genesis 2:20

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)

20 So the man named all the domestic animals and the flying creatures of the heavens and every wild animal of the field, but for man there was no helper as a complement of him.