Let’s start at the very beginning…of Creation vs Evolution Week at the NDD!

Would you enjoy life without the knowledge of good and evil?  Not just evil mind you, but GOOD and evil.  What would life be like with out EITHER of those things?

When the story of Adam and Eve was written, approximately 3,500 years ago, it was explained that the desire to have knowledge of good and evil was a bad thing, a heresy so to speak. It was then a fatal misconduct on the part of Adam and Eve to act on that desire.  It was an explanation for why humans are the way they are.

Now we know there are many other reasons as well for why we are the way we are.  The sciences of zoology, biology, chemistry, physics and cosmology all have contributed to our more advanced (though not yet complete) understanding of these things.

And guess what? Each one of those sciences and their early (and in some cases later) discoveries were first seen as heretical and those who practiced them were seen as guilty of misconduct.  Many were thrown in jail and killed as a result of their investigations.  Many who weren’t treated so harshly were still sidelined and dismissed for their ideas.

Our evolution doesn’t come easily it seems.

A question: Do you know why, in the biblical story of Genesis, Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden of Eden? I bet the reason is not what you think.  The answer tomorrow.



Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily

Quote by George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish playwright