{"id":16,"date":"2012-11-27T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T01:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/75.103.96.165\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2014-10-07T23:03:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T23:03:14","slug":"thoughts-on-evolution-and-the-sin-in-eden-a-new-christian-synthesis-1998-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Evolution and the Sin in Eden: A New Christian Synthesis (1998) 04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does <em>An Archaeology of the Fall<\/em> meet the criteria formulated by Pope Pius XII in 1950, or does it fail?<\/p>\n<p>Consider a crucial line from the Pope: These chapters \u2026 disclose important truths, upon which the attainment of our eternal salvation depends, and they also give a popular description of the origin of the human race and of the chosen people.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope\u2019s words give the impression that the origins \u201cof the human race\u201d and \u201cof the chosen people\u201d coincide.\u00a0 In <em>An Archaeology of the Fall<\/em>, the origins of the human race and of the chosen people differ.\u00a0 Hominid evolution differs from that moment \u2013 the transition from hand-speech to speech-alone talk \u2013 when the potential for a chosen people came into being.<\/p>\n<p>The story of hominid evolution is told in a variety of places.\u00a0 The text drums the slogan:\u00a0 The exaptation of the hand for talking coincided with the evolution of the <em>Homo<\/em> genus.\u00a0 The exaptation of the vocal tract for talking (in addition to hand talk) coincided with the evolution of <em>Homo sapiens<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 (In <em>Evolution and the Sin in Eden<\/em>, Zimmerman agrees with the latter statement.)<\/p>\n<p>However, there are vignettes that point to Chapter 1 of Genesis.\u00a0 In particular, Sarah\u2019s Mother says that the evolution of the <em>Homo<\/em> genus reminds her of the \u201cintention of man\u201d, the \u201ccreation of man\u201d reminds her of the evolution of <em>Homo sapiens<\/em>, and one of the final verse, \u201cgive plants to the animals\u201d, reminds her of the adoption of stockbreeding at the dawn of the Developed Neolithic.\u00a0 What a clever gal.\u00a0 With her intuition, <em>An Archaeology of the Fall <\/em>points to how Genesis 1 magically parallels the origin \u2013 er, evolution &#8211; of the human race.\u00a0 The maligned word \u201cconcordism\u201d is qualified by her aesthetic intuition.\u00a0 Here is an \u201cartistic\u201d concordism.<\/p>\n<p>An account of \u201cthe origin of the chosen people\u201d is performed (by Mom, again) in chapter 13C.\u00a0 In light of the possibility that the Torah was stitched together right before the fall of Judah, then laid out as a quilt to greet the returning exiles, we might think of the origin of the Jews this way: Within the territory of Judah and Israel, popular stories of an \u201cAbraham\u201d, a person who came out of a Mesopotamian tradition before Babylonia even existed, combined with the Near Eastern traditions of genealogies (which are basically \u201clists\u201d, see Jack Goody), could have served as nucleation sites for all the stories of Genesis.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, all the Genesis stories, including the two versions of Noah and the Flood, along with the genealogies, the stories of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and so forth, could have been \u201cpopular stories\u201d that fit together like pieces of a puzzle when Josiah\u2019s elite band of scribes realized that the stories of Abraham were a lynchpin that allowed them to portray themselves as coming out of both Mesopotamia and Egypt, which, by God, they did.\u00a0 Or maybe, the scribes just copied what the bards were already singing.<\/p>\n<p>The divine irony is that the picture held by the puzzle became real (just as the serpent became real in <em>An Archaeology of the Fall<\/em>, not by Eve\u2019s doing alone, but through what the <em>Zygon<\/em> folk call \u201cco-creation\u201d).\u00a0\u00a0 The picture became convincing enough for the chosen people to settle down in this beautiful, sublime and monstrously real theo-dramatic landscape.\u00a0\u00a0 And now, after we \u2013 the heirs of Judaic philo-theos and Greek philo-sophia \u2013 have started to delineate the edges of the pieces of the puzzle, surprise!\u00a0 The stories of Adam and Eve become a new lynchpin.<\/p>\n<p>With <em>An Archaeology of the Fall<\/em>, the Creation Story (Genesis 1-2.3) and the stories of Adam and Eve (Genesis 2.4 \u2013 on) touch base with both the familiar evolutionary point of view of human origins and a novel \u201cscientific\u201d perspective, in as much as semiotics and human prehistory could ever be constituted as \u201cscience\u201d.\u00a0 In doing so, they (as Pope Pius XII put it) \u201cdisclose important truths, upon which the attainment of our eternal salvation depends, and they also give a popular description of the origin of the human race and of the chosen people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does An Archaeology of the Fall meet the criteria formulated by Pope Pius XII in 1950, or does it fail? 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