Prove me right, prove me wrong.
The best rational answer will get best answer.
You can answer it religiously or scientifically. You can approach it materialisticly, symbolically, abstractly.
2007-12-16 11:59:47 · 13 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
wah hoo, what was the tree then? And even if it is not an apple tree, it is from the apple came from that exact tree I guess.
2007-12-16 12:08:08 · update #1
Jesus M, thanks for your idiotic nonsense!
2007-12-16 12:13:38 · update #2
OK both events were unrelated, try to relate them in a rational way! Think
2007-12-16 12:30:14 · update #3
Jack your line of thinking just gave the question life, thanks.
2007-12-16 13:16:47 · update #4
Symbolically speaking, yes.
You see, the Biblical "apple" heralded the beginning of knowledge for mankind, coming from the "Tree of the knowledge of good and evil."
Likewise, Newton's apple heralded a new epoch in understanding the universe, the catalyst for Newtonian physics.
Both events tie into knowledge, the expansion of it, and our understanding of the world.
A very clever question, my friend; I'm sorry that so few saw its subtlety and prompting for thoughtful responses. Thanks for asking this and giving me something to think about. :)
2007-12-16 13:02:07 · answer #1 · answered by Jack B, goodbye, Yahoo! 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
The Bible isn't specific on what kind of fruit it was. It was called the Tree of Knowledge. Let's say it was an apple tree for arguments sake. Now, let's say there were other apple trees in the Garden. God just said not to eat from THAT tree. They had all the other trees in the Garden to eat from.
As far as the apple that fell on Newton's head. Even if it was an apple that Adam and Eve ate, it wouldn't have been from the same tree since the Garden of Eden is thought to have been somewhere in the Middle East (most speculate somewhere in Iraq).
2007-12-16 12:13:44 · answer #2 · answered by ScottyJae 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The biblical story of Eve taking a bite from a fruit is a metaphor for when humans gained self-awareness.
Newton watched an apple drop an apple tree in a garden in Lincolnshire. Written accounts do not actually have the apple landing on his head.
Two totally unrelated events.
2007-12-16 12:18:59 · answer #3 · answered by skurka 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It was not...
By your presumption..there was a fruit that Eve ate...otherwise there would be no question..
if there was a fruit that Eve ate..then there was an Eve..
If there was an Eve..there was an Adam..
If there was an Adam...God created him.
If God created an Adam, and told us about it, and is now..by virtue of your question, presumptively true..
He must have told the truth that when The Garden of Eden was permanently sealed and guarded by Angels....and the Tree is in that sealed Garden..
Ergo, the apple fell from a different tree...
Another argument would be that Eve ate not from an apple tree, but the tree of knowledge...
But that's not as much fun..
EDIT EDIT EDIT
By your own edit..How can we relate rationally 2 unrelated incidents?
I mean...what if I asked you to relate the season premiere of LOST with the sinking of the Lusitania...
2007-12-16 12:09:00 · answer #4 · answered by Steve M 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Eve isn't blamed for ingesting of that tree, Adam is. Adam became into given the command to no longer consume from the tree till now Eve became into created. whilst it says that Eve became into deceived, the Bible on no account says she sinned, the Bible says Adam sinned. the different ingredient you study into the story from Genesis that would not look in Genesis is the Apple. The Bible would not say it became into an Apple. If something the Bible says that the priority interior the backyard of Eden became into no longer an Apple in any respect, the priority became into the Pair on the floor.
2016-11-03 12:34:14 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The tree from which Eve ate the apple was in Eden, consequestly she was thrown out. And thus mankind was born. Therefore it cannot be the same tree because we are not in Eden
Or, as i believe, it can't be because The Story of Adam and Eve is a story,
2007-12-16 12:09:36 · answer #6 · answered by Lifeless Energy 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The irony is that the fruit in which Eve partook,was very possibly a fig,rather than the classic illustration of it being an apple....Then a few years later,an apple fell from "Newton's tree" and yet we named a popular fig cookie,"Fig Newton's"
2007-12-16 12:49:07 · answer #7 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The tree that eve ate from wasn't an apple tree.
2007-12-16 12:06:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
given that I am sure Newton didn't live in paradise, the answer is no (religious version)
Given that evolution of mankind is thought to originate in Africa and I don't think apple trees featured at this time much in the landscape, Newton wasn't in Africa either, and the tree wouldn't have survived the time the answer is still no (science version)
2007-12-16 12:08:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Probably was. Maybe Satan was really the tree and God just blamed the snake because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time?
2007-12-16 12:07:51 · answer #10 · answered by wyrdrose 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋