Literalism, Creationism, Eternal Recurrence

The passage from Ecclesiastes, "There is nothing new under the sun", leaves unaddressed whether the sun itself, and anything beyond the sun, are new. However, the preceding text is less equivocal--"That which hath been is that which shall be. That which hath been done is what which shall be done". So, insofar as, as Literalism holds, these passages are true, not only was the creation of the sun nothing new, furthermore, none of the events described in Genesis are new. In other words, Literalism is committed to a theory of Eternal Recurrence, in which the 'creation' to which Creationism refers is a subsidiary episode.