Creationism Banned In U.K. Schools

[Robert Comsol]

Not to forget about the snake, which revealed the death threat was a lie. God had no control over the snake. Design flaw? Beyond his powers? A part of the character test (but God punished the snake as well, so that's another vote against that theory)?

The snake was looking forward to see Adam and Eve get in trouble. Not exactly a character trait you'd want to write home about.

It's basically a metaphor for regimes trying to keep you illiterate, and considering you a threat once you become educated, draw your own conclusions, and make up your own opinion.

Regimes never ask why you did something. All they care is that you did it and that you get accordingly punished for your disobedience. You're making it too simple.

But there is also another metaphor that comes to my mind: You don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Bob

 

[JarodRussell]

Not to forget about the snake, which revealed the death threat was a lie. God had no control over the snake. Design flaw? Beyond his powers? A part of the character test (but God punished the snake as well, so that's another vote against that theory)?

The snake was looking forward to see Adam and Eve get in trouble. Not exactly a character trait you'd want to write home about.

Who created the snake?

 

[gturner]

It wasn't actually a snake at the time since it was forced to crawl on its belly as punishment for tricking Eve. It was also an eloquent salesman, and probably spoke with a soft, reassuring British accent. Obviously it was the Geico Gecko.

 

[publiusr]

I think she would have ran from a Gorn.

 

[Drone]

Everything evolves--even airplanes--recently caught in the act of going ashore for the first time:





Join David Attenborough and I as we watch these rare Pacific Narrow-bodies return to the mountain streams in which they were born, as they try to climb the shore, evolve, spawn and then die. Their passage upstream is fraught with danger, from rapids, waterfalls and hungry grizzly Airbuses.

http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=25353

My most vivid takeaway from this image is that these must be highly intelligent lifeforms. Note that the one in the middle has almost immediately ascertained something objectionable in what little part of the local environment he/she/it has explored and decided to hightail it back to the primordial fount from which it sprung.

 

[Doctorwhovian]

The Snake in the Eden story is Satan, according to the New Testament. It's something not really clear in the Old Testament, because the idea of Satan being the big villain I think was a later development in religious thought, possibly influenced by Persian dualism.

 

[Kemaiku]

The Snake in the Eden story is Satan, according to the New Testament. It's something not really clear in the Old Testament, because the idea of Satan being the big villain I think was a later development in religious thought, possibly influenced by Persian dualism.

Yet in other texts such as Enoch, the snake is Gadriel.