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And on the eighth day, God created volcano cakes...
The cake I photographed yesterday not only overflowed with frosting and jello, but there was also a drizzling of irony there if you cared to look hard enough. The recipe came from a website called Christian Homemaking. There is, of course, the irony of an atheist using a Christian website to help celebrate his atheist wife's birthday, but that's just the rim of the volcano. The website's stated purpose is to "[support] women in the role of being a godly wife and homemaker," so I guess by their standards I'm virtually cross-dressing since I not only baked this cake, but do a good deal of the cooking at baking in our marriage--definitely not conforming to the traditional roles the website seems to advocate.
I don't know anything about the precise beliefs of the woman running this website, but for the sake of comedy, let's assume that she's as conservative as conservative can be, believing in a literal reading of the Bible. The original recipe includes little plastic dinosaurs to go with the volcano, so I have to assume--per the Creation Museum in Kentucky--that we could equally have put little figures of Adam and Eve alongside the dinosaurs, though I suppose we'd have to remove them from the scene before the lava started flowing.
On the other hand, perhaps the cake is depicting how God hid the dinosaur bones to test our faith, a story which isn't in Genesis, but should be. "And on the eighth day, God decided to screw with mankind by burying things in such a way to make most of the rest of this book seem like the preposterously-naive myths of a bronze-age people, thus showing his infinite patience in waiting for the payoff of a good joke."