0243 Certainly, Venema and McKnight lower two curtains on the historical Adam envisioned by Saint Augustine.

0244 With these comments, each curtain takes on a life of its own.

0245 The fact that descent with modification embodies the same relational structure as the message underlying the word “religion” suggests that there is more to evolutionary biology than meets the eye.  The discussion ends with the “university” becoming the “ulistentome”, the “college” getting relabeled as “harangue” and the seminary turning into “hope for salvation”.

Genetics rules out Adam and Eve as the biological parents of all humanity along with Augustine’s version of Original Sin.

What about the word games that speech-alone talk allows?

0246 The fact that the stories of Adam and Eve are written in the style of (excavated) ancient Near East literature suggests that all these stories came to us through a process of descent with modification.

All written origin stories of the ancient Near East point to the trauma of the first singularity.  They cannot see beyond this particular time-horizon.

The same goes for the Genesis stories starting with Adam and Eve. The stories of Adam and Eve mark the start of our current Lebenswelt.

0247 Here is a new image for Original Sin.

Indeed, the new version accounts for the old version.

0248 So, instead of pursuing ulistentome or harangue, seek hope for salvation.

Adam and the Genome: Reading Scripture after Genetic Science lowers the curtains on Augustine’s stage play about the nature and consequences of the Fall.  Yet, the curtains come alive with the category-based nested form and the hypothesis of the first singularity.

0249 The curtains may become the rage.

0250 Don’t lose faith.

Enter the fourth age of understanding.