It's under discussion, but not in the scientific world. They don't dare
to tuch the storys. It would rampage the whole religious
ivorytower.
I don't see where that
would/should be true.
I
do. If the storys in all of the present religious books are proved
wrong the base of these religions tumble to dust. Or it should be the
consequeces. However, what people choose to beleve in the context of a
religion must not have anything to do with facts.
There isn't
a doubt in my mind that God exists, but at the same time, I know full well
that the Torah/Bible and other religious books were all written by
primitive, uneducated men, hard-pressed to explain what they had seen or to
explain what they believed. Adam, Eve and the Garden of Eden are NOT
exclusive Jewish property. All societies have legends about the beginnings,
and if people can get past their bigotry and look honestly at history, they
will quickly realize that it's not our differences we should be focusing on,
but the miraculous similarities that we have with each other. ... i.e.:
Isn't the realization that every society on this planet has a similar legend
for how life began far more important than to focus on the Judeo/Christian
one of Adam and Eve to the exclusion of all others? Especially when you
realize that they "borrowed" the story of the Garden of Eden from someone
else.
Some have surprizingly similar explanations but others differ
quite a lot. The natives of Australia and the diffierent tribes of South and
North America or in Africa have no similarities with the explanations born
in "the fertile half moon", the present middle east. However, I think they
all were constucted in order to have an answere to "why" and "how" the
civilizations was born, and there is no reason, in my mind, to take the
mythical part of them for true except for the historical places where they
are supposed to have taken place.
The
same priciple is used constantly in fiction novels. The place excist, but
that storys personalities are only a result of the authors imagination. In
many years from now it will be possible to excavate some of the places where
those storys are supposed to have been taken place, but never the less: the
people and the events have never taken place except for in the authors
imagination.
And if there
isn't a large kernel of truth buried in all these stories, how can one
explain how people, completely separated from each other, all came up with
the same, basic ideas?
People, completely separated from each other, has
similar storys to tell about the oldest times. But were they so completely
separated? Communications from the Read See over and around India and Sri
Lanka to the Far East were frecquent long before our modern time begun 2000
years ago and very long before the Europeans "discovered" the way to the
Indian Ocean. So was the storys spread from Middle East to China and back
and the chineese culture were thousends of years older that those in the
middle east. It's a very complicated picture, not fully
understand.
How come that the building of pyramids took place
in both Egypt and in Mexico? Does that indicates a connection between Egypt
and Mexico? Thor Heyerdahl, with the Kon-Tiki expedition and the Raa boats,
the last real explorer who died reasently, has some ideas on this and he
proved that it was possible to travel over the Atlantic (and The Pacific)
already in those anscient days, but, on the other hand, is the pyramid shape
so difficult to think of that the fact that it's been used in both Egypt and
Mexico must indicate a connection? I don't think so!
