| 9:51 PM 11/7/06 · When I was a littler me I got it into my head that Scientology was a more scientific approach to Christianity. I've since learned that nothing could be further from the truth, expect a rant one day in the not too distant future, but the original misconception may've had something to do with my whole take on how we got here.
See, I do believe in the Origin of the Species in both the religious contexts and the scientific. Evolution makes sense to me and I can't think of a single reason why God couldn't have kicked off the process. Though I do have some issues with the Adam & Eve story which isn't surprising I suppose.
God made Eden and filled it with all sorts of animals, top of the supposed food chain was Adam & Eve; I highly doubt that but I'm trying to stick with the supposed model. Now, there's really no way to know what language God spoke way back when, given that there was supposedly no one else for God to chat with there may not've been a spoken anything going on, but maybe Adam isn't so much a name as a label for a kind of animal. Eve being the female of that same species. Being a species it seems really unlikely there'd be only two of them.
According to the Bible a serpent (probably the Devil) conned Eve into eating of the forbidden fruit, contrary to God's will, and then led Adam down the path to getting the quick path out of Eden. I've two problems with this...the first being that the female of our species tend to have more sense than the male. Also, given that anthropologists have determined the averahe human lifespan way the fudge back then was probably about 17 years at best...a big old snake comes on over for a chat you're going to reach out and use whatever's handy as a weapon.
So one of the Adams grabbed the fruit in question (be it an apple or whatever) and beaned the snake in the noggin with it. After that it probably wasn't much of a stretch to take a bite of the fruit. Hanging on a tree, good for a lifetime of admiration. Smacking a potential threat away from biting range, more than a bit handy...
A nummy little snack, priceless!
That's going even further to say the snake was the only predator in question. I don't know that I buy that humans were God's first choice...I just think we had the upper edge in cleverness early on. I suspect a level playing ground, any of the other animals could've popped in as God's favorite depending how things went...
...with the exception of the platypus. Can you imagine a world where they were in charge of everything? |
