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[HydrogenBond]

One way to look at religion and gods is that what is worshiped is not typically material or biological and does not fit into the casual or even the probabilistic laws of science. For example, an angel is neither physical or biological and can defy the laws of science as we know it both in terms of cause and affect and probability. I am not saying this is true or not, just this is how it is defined.

What that says, creationism is it is not talking about biology or science, since it does not follow these laws. The one phenomena in nature that conceptually works under the same lack of physical constraints, is the human imagination. In our imagination, we can go back into time (pretend) and then even make a movie to show how dinosaurs behaved. This is not real because it would involve time travel. But the movie will use science personifications, blended with imagination to create a semi-reality. In the imagination cause and effect , realty or probability don't need to be active. In my imagination, I defy all the odds and win the lottery at will, even while I am on stage performing rock music to a bunch of naked women. This is totally impossible in reality but is possible with the imagination.

The symbolism in the bible that defy biology and physical science comes from the imagination. But it was not made up by the will, but was a natural expression of the brain, using the imagination, sort of like awake dreams. The inner self, which used to be the center of animal instinct, was defining itself in terms of the human mind. For example, spontaneous fantasy of an inflated ego state, like being a rock star, can sometimes be unconscious compensation for something. What was projected in these symbols indirectly tells you what was going at that time.