There was a time when people who wanted to encounter the words of God would need to rely on the expertise of an oral poet, a person whose task it was to memorize and recite the Scriptures. But when humans transitioned to a written culture (and eventually a print culture), suddenly every person could read the Bible on his own, and the poet became superfluous, unnecessary. The change in media brought about a vast shift—not only by giving more people an opportunity to encounter more of God’s words, but in the very way that people understood the purpose and meaning of these words. The poet
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could this be a major contributor to the whole creation/evolution divide?
