2007-09-27 07:04:00 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
PediC: I've recently completed my reading of the Bible. I'm not an adherent of Abrahamic faith but simply a curious man.
My thoughts are this: The story of Genesis was written long before the earliest known accounts of the concept of natural selection - by Anaximander in the 6th century BC. However, that doesn't imply that there weren't thoughts about speciation before then/him.
If the Tree of Life is simply a metaphor for the process of evolution - and its various "branches" in speciation - perhaps the story of Adam and Eve NOT partaking of its fruit reveals a belief on the part of the authors of the Bible that mankind's further development as a species would be intellectual (i.e., partaking of the fruit of the Tree of Consciousness) and not physical/biological (i.e., the fruit of the Tree of Life).
Of course intellectual development has its physical properties but this may not have been known (likely was not) to the authors of Genesis.
2007-09-27 07:13:47 · update #1
Wouldn't that be the Circle of Life?
Wait, that's the Lion King...
Well heck, even Disney and Elton John understood evolution!
2007-09-27 07:07:17 · answer #1 · answered by Heck if I know! 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The creation tale is extremely needless to say an allegory for the author did not even have faith that girls human beings got here from guy's ribs or that snake's talked. you will desire to understand historical Hebrew literature, before comprehend-how the creation tale for what it is. that is an allegory that makes use of parallel poetry. This allegory communicates complicated religious truths. One being that there became right into a beginning up, God did create the international (nonetheless we are actually not precisely specific how), and that God and guy lived in unison, yet guy severed their relationship with God by using sin and satisfaction. Now, that being mentioned, i will see why human beings have faith God used evolution too gain His applications. yet i'm not extremely taken by using evolution. i've got not got faith that evidence of Micro-evolution (species evolving interior their own species) is likewise evidence of Macro-evolution. we've not got any stable evidence that one species can evolve into yet another species. we can not even recreate it in the labs, yet senseless remember and amino acids would desire to? some thing is incorrect right here. we would desire to continuously be observing human DNA and noticing new DNA being further. we would desire to continuously be seeing new advice in the human DNA, yet we are actually not. i've got studied evolution and positively i think of that is too some distance of a stretch. definitely, if evolution wasn't the only clarification for the way existence took place without divine interference, than it could have been tossed out an prolonged time in the past.
2016-12-17 11:42:13 · answer #2 · answered by lunger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are other times in the Bible where trees are actually references to people with great power - like leaders of some sort. Considering the Genesis account has the "tree of life" - then it could actually be a reference to God as creator. Eve ate from the tree because the snake told her she would be just like God if she did. In her desire to be like God (eat of the fruit) she sinned. Literal or not - it was jealousy and a desire to be what you're not that birthed the first human sin.
It actually carries a great similarity to what happened to Satan/Beelzebub - how he started out perfect - as an angel - and desired God's position, he wanted people to worship him instead of God... so by deceiving Eve and then Adam, you could say Satan as well plucked fruit from the tree of life.
2007-09-27 07:18:21 · answer #3 · answered by CHRISTINA 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are reading too much into this.....
the tree was really a tree.....
you will not find evidence for evolution in the bible....it clearly says God created everything....it did not evolve...
2007-09-27 07:17:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not. You will find no references to the THEORY of evolution in the Bible, metaphorically or otherwise.
The earth and heaven "evolved" over 6 days while God was creating it.
2007-09-27 07:12:10 · answer #5 · answered by dixiepixie8 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ive heard of the book of life, but not the tree of life.
2007-09-27 07:08:10 · answer #6 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never heard that and I don't see how it could be since the writers of the creation account had no awareness of evolution.
2007-09-27 07:06:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it is a type of Christ. The fruit of the tree of life is his atonement.
2007-09-27 07:23:07 · answer #8 · answered by Someone who cares 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
perhaps... scientists do speak of an evolutionary "tree"
here's a reference to the Tree of Life...
http://www.christian-faith.com/forjesus/meaning-tree-life
2007-09-27 07:08:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
its a metaphor for the sick bay in the colony ship and the tree of knowledge is the computer...
2007-09-27 07:07:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋