The evolutionary model is, I think, responding to, and picking up on, the fact that in many respects, Yahweh resembles the gods of Israel's neighbors.

进化模型，我认为，回应了或者说挑选了这个事实，在很多方面，耶和华与以色列邻国的神灵相似。

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Well, so far we've had two models that have been thrown out to you: From polytheism's worship of many gods there's a natural evolution to henotheism's elevation of one god to a supreme position.

目前，我已经给你们提出了两种模型：,从崇拜众多神灵的多神论,自然进化到一神论,唯一的至高无上的神。

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This is by the famous biologist, D'Arcy Thompson, who wrote the book On Growth and Form, and it's sort of the model of many developmental psychologists and many evolutionary psychologists so I'll end with this: "Everything is the way it is because it got that way."

这是著名的生物学家,达西·汤普森所提出的,他写了一本叫做《论生长和形态》的书,这句话也是许多发展心理学家,和进化心理学的理论模型,所以我用这句话来作为结束,"万物如此,皆因其本"

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