Does the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil represent scientific inquiry?

Answer 1

It represent Baconian Empiricism, which is just as good.

Answer 2

The tree of Knowledge is from the ancent scriptures. It is presented in the Quran, Torah and Bible in some form or other. It is also represented in Gilgamesh, an ancient epic.
It represents the ability to understand good from evil, not any attempt at performing good or evil. The bible says after Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree they became aware of their nudity and felt shame they wore no clothes. (BAD) So they hid when the Lord came for them. There was no science or scientific inquiry involved. It was merely an awakening that certain behaviors are right/wrong.

Answer 3

Interesting question. I believe that the tree represents questioning reality. Scientific inquiry is a part of that, but there's more to it. I like this idea that allot of people never really think about. God created the garden, right? God created the tree, right? God also created the snake. It was a set up! He knew that human curiosity (which he created) would not be able to resist something that is so easy to attain. And just in case, he added the snake to tempt them for good measure. God wanted us to question reality. The whole thing was a set up, but not to incriminate us, but rather to liberate us! It's an interesting concept.

Answer 4

No, because science did not exist when the biblical stories were written (and remember, before they were written, they were passed down as oral traditions from other cultures). People back then had a view of the world as being a flat disk supported on pillars, with the sky as a dome overhead. The stars, planets, sun, and moon were attached to this dome and could be moved about by God's will (hence the story of the sun standing still). Above the dome lived God, and to make it rain, he opened floodgates to let water down from the sky ("...and the windows of heaven were opened." Gen.7:11) Heaven was the sky, and it wasn't very far away--one could reach it if one built a tall enough tower. (This, of course, angered God, and he cursed everyone by confusing their language.)

Do you see how silly it all is? It made sense to people living without science, who had no means of exploring the world to find real answers; it does not make sense to us now, in an age when science reveals far more wisdom than the non-existent gods ever did. Besides, science does not address the issues of good, evil, and morality, it simply seeks to find answers to questions about the universe in which we live. To the ancients, "good" meant obeying God and "evil" meant disobeying him. Of course, they had never seen God or heard him speak, so they could only rely on what the priests told them--not unlike modern-day Christians who rely on what their pastors, ministers, and telepreachers tell them.

Answer 5

No. it's morality. Other animals are amoral. Does a cuckoo fledgling commit a sin when it nudges a nestmate out of the nest? Does a lion commit a sin when it kills all the kittens in a pride after assuming the alpha position? Only Homo sapiens have the ability to ponder good vs. evil.

It's just about the only thing in Genesis that makes sense to me.

Answer 6

Considering that the story is an allegory of the birth of human consciousness the tree has to represent something. I think it represents our decision making abilities.

Answer 7

It represents the deceptive influence held by anything that promises to make life better which in the end makes life worse.

Answer 8

Yes it does. It is a fact that religion strives to keep people ignorant.
It is a metaphor to tell "believers" not to ask questions of things that don't make sense.
If god created all things, why would he have created a "hot skillet" just to leave it in the playpen of his creation that he "loved" so much?

Answer 9

The Tree of expertise of excellent and evil represents the severe component in human progression as quickly as we began to choose issues and movements. The snake turns into "undesirable." Nakedness turns into "undesirable." Sin replaced into born. till now this component there replaced into no good or undesirable. each and every thing purely replaced into. as quickly as adult males began to declare issues good or undesirable, evil replaced into unleashed. The evil stems from the judgment. Judging helps guy to verify the international as "us vs. them. " we are the best adult males, they are the undesirable, as a result we are in a position to/ought to cease them. Animals have not got rules and courts. Animals can no longer choose one yet another. Animals do purely. because of the fact of this the tree of expertise of excellent and evil is what brought about guy to loose heaven. Heaven replaced into the international till now judgment, till now good and evil. Earth is the place we are residing attempting to bear in mind the place we got here from. as quickly as we cease judging one yet another and seeing the international in black and white, us and them, then we can be returned interior the backyard of Eden

Answer 10

What a facinateing question!. Yes.Maybe not so much represent but definitely Inguire Within.