male and female he created them. . . . God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” And so at the Creation, the Abrahamic tradition pounds a cosmos-splitting dualist wedge, inaugurating a world created to be subjugated by its newest tenant. All is “put here for us,” making the Abrahamic tradition perhaps the most self-centered of all the world’s belief systems.
