On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 01:05:24PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 6/3/2014 5:03 AM, Chris wrote: > > > >After all it was created by God, er, Apple. (Mind you, it was > >because of an apple that God evicted humans from paradaise :-) > > > > Heh heh :) Why has that never occurred to me before? > > Side note: I've heard arguments that the biblical "apple" may have > originally been a pomegranate. If so, then not surprising it would > have been changed to an apple - pomegranates had kinda gotten lost > from public awareness in certain cultures (like the US) until only > fairly recently with all the renewed interest in healthy eating. (Not > that apples aren't healthy, but poms are said to be *really* healthy, > apparently.)
Note that NOWHERE in the original Hebrew Bible does it say that the fruit was an apple or a pomegranate or anything like that. The apple/pomegranate interpretation is entirely made up, probably by an overly enthusiastic children's story author. T -- Shin: (n.) A device for finding furniture in the dark.
