William Campbell started pouring his attack on Dr. Bukai accusing him of his ignorance of the Bible because Dr. Bukai proved that the Bible did not mention the moment of the creation of the skies and the earth and that the Bible is completely far from all the scientific theories and that there is a difference between (الماء) water and (الدخان) smoke. For the second time, William Campbell offers us the evidence for authenticity of Dr. Bukai. The sayings of Dr. Newman and Ackliman included what states that the stage preceding the earth creation permits believing in the existence of a gaseous mass in the first stage of the universe formation. In addition asserting that water existed in that period is quite erroneous . hence, we repeat the Koranic verse:
"وَيَمْكُرُونَ وَيَمْكُرُ اللّهُ وَاللّهُ خَيْرُ الْمَاكِرِينَ
"They plot and plan, and Allah too plans; but the best of planners is Allah."
Then William Campbell claims that the word (المياه) i.e. as mentioned in the Genesis Book 1:2 would have many meanings:
سفر تكوين 1: 2
و كانت الارض خربة و خالية و على وجه الغمر ظلمة و روح الله يرف على وجه المياه
Genesis Book 1:2
The earth was abandoned and void and on the face of water depths a darkness while the spirit of God flickered on the face of water
He said that the word (ماء و مياه) i.e. water and waters have a wider meaning than is seen by the eye at the very first sight as the word waters مياهis the plural of the word water ماء … is not this a funny joke that bursts for us at the ignorance of William Campbell?
Rather, the most overwhelming is that he says that the meaning of the word waters مياه in the Genesis Book 2:1 is unspecified: it may be vapour, clouds, drops or ice or any other fluids.
However, William Campbell got stupid, overlooked and pretended that the Bible clarified the steps of the skies and earth creation while he ignored the saying of both Dr. Newman and Dr. Ackliman as they said: the stage preceding the earth creation and the Genesis Book started immediately after the creation of the skies and earth not beyond their creation.
The idea of the creation of the skies and the earth in the Bible as stated in the Genesis Book reveals to us that the Bible followed the words of the philosopher Emanuel Kant, Carl Marx and Frederick Angels who said that the universe exist in all times and the inexistence of the moment of its beginning is widely acceptable and the Bible did not discuss the method of the beginning moment of the skies and earth creation; rather, it described the creation of the beings which will be contained in the skies and the earth..
The Christian may object to my words as he did not read the Genesis Book clearly where it said:
تكوين 1
فِي الْبَدْءِ خَلَقَ اللهُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضَ، 2وَإِذْ كَانَتِ الأَرْضُ مُشَوَّشَةً وَمُقْفِرَةً وَتَكْتَنِفُ الظُّلْمَةُ وَجْهَ الْمِيَاهِ، وَإِذْ كَانَ رُوحُ اللهِ يُرَفْرِفُ عَلَى سَطْحِ الْمِيَاهِ .. ترجمة كتاب الحياة .
1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.… translated of the Life Book.
Priest Antonious Fekry said in his interpretation of these editions: the earth was void and vacant: the earth here denotes all that belongs to matter. It is what is called primordial matter. It is the primary non-formed matter and the word waste and void (Chaos) is supposed to precede the current form of the universe in English i.e. distorted, without form and void in Hebrew Tahoe and Bahoe and in English waste inappropriate for life void of any beauty covered with darkness and the seventies translation translated it as unseen and incomplete.
On the face of deluge lied darkness: الغمر i.e. deluge in Hebrew indicates the meaning of depth and distortion. The word غمر is not used as the waters immersed everything deeply. Darkness emerged from the extreme temperature of the earth in its beginning made waters evaporate and form fog and vapour that prevented light from the earth surface.
The spirit of God flickered on the face of waters : the word روح spirit and the word ريح wind is the same word in Hebrew and Greek. It is among the Jewish traditions that when they say the spirit of God to mean a great wind. We Christians interpret this verse to mean that the Holy spirit flickered on waters to give life and create a beautiful world…. End of the priest words.