The Days of Creation Part 1

To set up a habit, I will put each section's notes in a separate post. This one will discuss the 70% complete "Days of Creation" section of "The New Genesis."

Like the Bible, it begins with "In the Beginning" and each subsection ends with "And there was evening, and there was morning." Common phrasing is used throughout to let the viewer know that this is the beginning of a new Bible.

However, a viewer will immediately notice that God has been removed from the equation, and the "Beginning" is the big bang. This is very intentional, and would hopefully unsettle the viewer into believing that something is off or wrong with this new telling. On the bottom half of the page (slide 2), I used a photograph of the milky way (billions of stars are hard to make and arrange individually), in order to begin to focus on Earth. The next page has a very disorganized solar system on it. Notice the brown and red on the third planet -- that will be changed in the coming days. I must note that the big bang story may not be accurate to scientific accounts, and I did no research into it for this depiction, because over-simplified science seems to be acceptable when liberals are concerned.

For this section of the production, and probably no other section in it, time is extremely important. We start with the beginning, and go through several "days." However, each of the days is notedly separated by at least a few million years. It becomes consistent with the Big Bang Theory of creation, and probably more with reality, though the timetables are completely made up by me.

The first day displays constant volcanic activity on the Earth. Two separate animations are made, one large scale (planetary view) and the other more close-up. The close up animation is simple but was necessary to me, since I failed to create an animation of Vesuvius for one of my undergraduate projects and it had always bugged me. The latter animation type is reminiscent of two previous animations I had made: the spewing blood from my "Phillip the Great" presentation, and the fire smoke from my "Actium" presentation. These were two of my more clever independent animations and I combined the elements here.

The second day (after a billion years has elapsed) has the lava cooling and gas being excreted. Nothing special, except that in the middle of the top half, there will be the comment, "Carbon Dioxide and water vapor are accumulated, and it was good." This is the first of many cracks at the global warning hysteria and how ridiculous it is. On the bottom of the same page we move to day three (a billion years later as well). Here we have rains filling the oceans, lands reappearing and life beginning. This page contains a wonderful new animation. In the bottom right corner, there is a sunset animation which was surprisingly simple to produce, but looks really nice.

For the Fourth Day, the dinosaurs are introduced. Now, one must remember that I am not drawing with a pen, but rather with a mouse. While this may sound like an apology for the quality, it is actually a challenge against all those who complain about the shape of the stegasaurus and brachiosaurus. The characters, like most of my creations in PowerPoint are cartoony and by no means perfect representations, and this is a conscious choice.

However, this becomes the first overt criticism of Global Warming. The dinosaurs are claimed to have died due to global warming, caused by breathing too heavily and eating all the plants and trees. However, in the background for the viewer, we see a meteor striking the earth and the sky changing color. Lying through the teeth in order to fit a future agenda is seen explicitly for the first time here. And I don't want emails telling me that no one ever claimed that global warming killed the dinosaurs, because that is inaccurate (http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2005/01/21/extinction-050121.html)... and anyways, it's supposed to be symbolic and allegorical, like much of the Bible itself.

This is where we are (and by that I mean "I am") so far on the project - two and a half pages into the comic. I will make a point of expounding details to the production as they appear. In later entries, I will likely be more explicit on what the alternatives to the choices I made were, but right now, I'm tired of writing.