From the Telegraph:Professor Ellen van Wolde, a respected Old Testament scholar and author, claims the first sentence of Genesis "in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" is not a true translation of the Hebrew.
She claims she has carried out fresh textual analysis that suggests the writers of the great book never intended to suggest that God created the world -- and in fact the Earth was already there when he created humans and animals.
Prof Van Wolde, who once worked with the Italian academic and novelist Umberto Eco, said her new analysis showed that the beginning of the Bible was not the beginning of time, but the beginning of a narration.
From the University of Wollongong, News & Media:"Enrolments in the School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering (SECTE) have usually included only one or two women in each year.But this year, much to the surprise of staff, that figure has soared to 12 – meaning that 20% of first year SECTE students are women.To mark the occasion the school held a first-year women in engineering lunch today (Wednesday) so the students had a chance to meet each other and female staff in the faculty.Lecturer in the School, Dr Montse Ros hosted the lunch and told the students about the different ways they can be a part of the traditionally male-dominated faculty.“Throughout your degree, you should voice your ideas about how to make courses more female friendly,” she told the group.She also encouraged students to apply for scholarships, attend Women in Engineering conferences, and get involved by becoming student representatives.Dr Ros said the lunch was an important step in making the new students feel welcome in a traditionally male-dominated field."
