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Article: Beyond eden: Adam and Eve build the future; In an age of science, the story of Adam and Eve's expulsion from paradise can still serve to inspire humanity toward building a better future.
- Article from:
- The Futurist
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Several thousand years ago, an unknown writer wrote a story that reduced his understanding of the world to a nutshell, condensing human history into the story of Adam and Eve and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
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The early storyteller had only limited information about the earth and no knowledge of the growing expanse of science and technology or of social networking, such as we have when we read the story today. In his story, the sun, moon, and stars were created in one day, and man and woman were made out of the clay of the earth. The story included a mythological serpent that talked to Eve about the forbidden fruit from ...