What do Harry Blount and Gédéon Spilett have in common?

They use Genesis 1 (and onward), learned by heart, to philibuster telegraph connections until they have the next news to transmit.

Perhaps Jules Verne considered the Bible (outside morals) as so much philibustering ... in The Mysterious Island (where Gédéon Spilett landed), they are not very respectful of the Biblical timescale, as one learned man would have calculated that basalt took so many million years to cool (outside Global Flood conditions, which he didn't take into account, but Jules Verne and Cyrus Smith don't state this), and they were talking about Earth becoming uninhabitable millions of years in the future.

This novel was serialised from 1874 over 1875, and published as a book in 1875. 15 years after Origin of the Species.

One lesson is, pop culture is sometimes wrong when its scope goes beyond the morality of adventures (and Mysterious Island has really too much work ethic in that one too, plus an unrealistically abject Ayrfort, and a Jup which is as fabulous as the Jupiter of Mount Olympus, if not more), and how its characters are portrayed influences people.

Another, connected, is, Evolutionism owes more to pop culture than to serious discourse of the learned (including school teachers and not just entertainment into pop culture), and this may be the case for Darwinism too.

But a third, more important one, is, if you keep reciting the Genesis account, you sometimes do transmit the latest news.

And a fourth one, related to how the history of Genesis 2 - 12 was known to Moses, is, as I have said, the text chunks are succinct enough to learn very easily by heart. If Gideon Spilett could recite Genesis 3 by heart, why couldn't Noah have done so?

However, St. Luke had no need to wait until generations of people learning it by heart had after millennia transmitted the Ascension, he could hear it from people who were there.*

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Ascension
21.V.2020

* Or at least had talked to those who were.