Irrationalities In Faith: Evolve. Evolve. Evolve

By Sumit Paul, New Age Islam 18 March 2024 "Whether Adam And Eve Existed Is Not Important. What's Much More Important Is The Confirmation That The Human Brain Is Still So Underdeveloped As To Believe In Adam, Eve, Angels, Fairies, Jinns Or Genies. These Are All Figments Of Imagination Along With Mankind's Biggest Fabrication, God...." Maurice Bloch, an anthropologist at the London School of Economics The genetic variation we see in humans today provides no positive evidence whatsoever that we trace our ancestry exclusively from a single couple. Adam and Eve is actually a Semitic concoction. In other words, it's a religious belief in all three Semitic faiths, viz, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. But the majority of Orthodox Jews do not take this story literally but understand it as an allegory expressing the idea that we are all related and that we are created in the image of God—in the spiritual, not physical, sense. Even some Jews who believe that the Torah represents the word of God believe that the story was given to us as a teaching device, not literal history. It's a myth told by primitive people, the same as the Greeks believing that lightning was Zeus' thunderbolt, or the Iroquois believing that the earth is all on the back of a giant turtle. It was meant metaphorically. ----------------------------------------------------------- Also Read: The Genetic Bottlenecks & Adam: Prophet Adam (s)‘s Role in Human History ----------------------------------------------------------- The problem with (religious) humans is that they don't understand the language of allegories, metaphors, insinuations and symbols, all the scriptures are rife with. They're literalists. Only a primitive brain continues to believe in all sorts of porcine turds that religions and scriptures have to offer. We talk about cognitive skills but do we really apply self-reflection, logical reasoning, abstract and critical thinking, introspection and mental arithmetic? If we can apply these skills to other aspects of our life, why don't we apply them to understand religions, books and esoteric beliefs? A man can be highly educated with a scientific background but his scientific temperament vanishes the moment he starts justifying the irrationalities in his faith. An uneducated yokel believing in Adam, Eve, Hanuman, Demons, Satan etc. is perfectly justifiable because his brain is not developed. But 'educated' people believing in these fables is an insult to human intelligence. Study Genetics, Human Evolution, Mutation and Anthropology. You'll get answers to all your doubts and queries without ever bringing in Adam and Eve. Lastly, in a lighter vein, if Adam and Eve are mankind's common ancestors, aren't we all offspring of the same parents? Then, aren't humans have been indulging in incest right from the beginning of human civilization? Just curious. Follow the advice of Jiddu Krishnamurthy, " Evolve. Evolve. Evolve. Humans are still in the gutter....." when a famous doctor from Madras (sorry, no Chennai) asked Jiddu what should humans do during one of his Madras lectures in the early sixties. ----- A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to Islam. He has contributed articles to the world's premier publications in several languages including Persian. URL: https://newageislam.com/spiritual-meditations/irrationalities-faith-evolve/d/131941 New Age Islam, Islam Online, Islamic Website, African Muslim News, Arab World News, South Asia News, Indian Muslim News, World Muslim News, Women in Islam, Islamic Feminism, Arab Women, Women In Arab, Islamophobia in America, Muslim Women in West, Islam Women and Feminism