![]() Such a layer of water would have created a “greenhouse” effect that could have encouraged a rapid growth of plants and protected the earth’s inhabitants from the damaging rays of the sun. ![]() ![]() One possible explanation is that God placed a layer of water vapour around the earth, high in the atmosphere. It is possible that there was more water involved at that time than that which is present in our atmosphere today. Although we cannot see the atmosphere it is constantly playing the part that God intended it to play. Because of the atmosphere the sun does not burn us to death and we do not freeze at night when the sun sets. The sky (or our atmosphere) is like a blanket of gasses which protects the earth. ![]() On the second day of creation God separated the water above the earth from the water on the earth, placing the sky between the two. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She wrote a brilliant essay in the Dublin Review about how she found it “depressing and vaguely amoral,” which attracted the attention of a literary agent, which led to her book deal. When she was in college, Rooney was the number one competitive debater in Europe. They are the Brahmin left-the fictional embodiments of class dealignment.īefore I get to Beautiful World in any detail, here are certain facts all reviewers are obliged to note if they write about Sally Rooney. If they lived in New York, you’d find them debating the latest Jacobin article on austerity politics over a glass of orange wine at a table on a Brooklyn sidewalk. Over drinks at the bar, they fight about who exactly should count as working class. They want to end the patriarchy, they are anti-capitalists, they are dismayed by global inequality. 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