Monday, May 01, 2017

Substantiation: Adam and Eve

The Biblical story of Adam, Eve, the serpent, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil might not be irrefutably provable as historical fact, but science's observations seem to offer sufficient basis to suggest that it could have occurred.

  • Adam's Creation By God
    As source of all other existence, God seems most logically suggested to have created Adam.
  • Eve's Creation From Adam's Rib
    In light of the apparent suggestion that science's limited capability has transplanted biological parts from one object to another, produced fully-formed sheep from sheep cells, changed biological cells from one type to another, and accelerated certain natural processes, the omniscient, omnipotent source of existence seems reasonably suggested to be capable of creating Eve from Adam's rib.

  • The Serpent
    The serpent seems reasonably suggested to have existed despite apparent lack of contemporary observation, based upon the apparent suggestions (a) that certain contemporary animals exhibit intelligent behavior, communication, and even human-like speech, (b) that animal types have become extinct, have changed form dramatically, and/or have lost certain capabilities, and (c) that human form and capability evolved from that of one-celled organisms.
  • The Tree Of The Knowledge of Good And Evil
    The Bible seems typically interpreted as suggesting that fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:9, 17 and Genesis 3) bestowed prohibited knowledge of good and evil information, a possible misinterpretation of the tree's name made not only by readers, but by Adam and Eve.

    Genesis 2:25 seems intended to contrast Genesis 3: 7, 10 to demonstrate (a) the fruit's effect, (b) limited sensory perception's apparent vulnerability to misinterpretation, (c) its apparent resulting unreliability as a decision-making guide, and (d) its apparent need for God as primary relationship and sovereign authority.

    Genesis 3 seems to suggest that Adam and Eve ate the fruit and sensed uneasiness about being unclothed, despite Genesis 2:25's apparently portraying previous ease thereregarding. Perhaps the fruit contained substance that induced anxiety that they associated with their possibly dominant sensory perception at the time, the visual of each others' bodies, and assumed that their first piece of new, prohibited knowledge was the impropriety of nudity. This theory seems consistent with the apparent lack of logical basis for associating nudity, the body's natural state, with impropriety.

    Consequently, perhaps the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was so named because its fruit would induce, and therefore, introduce perception of evil to thus-far, problem-free human experience. This seems reasonable since (a) no mention of perceiving evil seems to exist before Genesis 3, and (b) Genesis 1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, and 31 seem intended to specify how good everything was, the final verse stating "very good".