By Steve Jones
Revisits Bible tales as noticeable during the lens of recent technology, trying to confirm if people are quite descended from Adam and Eve and if Noah's nice flood used to be really a illustration of the top of the Ice Age.
summary: Revisits Bible tales as visible in the course of the lens of contemporary technology, trying to be certain if people are relatively descended from Adam and Eve and if Noah's nice flood was once truly a illustration of the top of the Ice Age
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This book begins, in the tradition of its model, with an account of the covenant between God and Man that began in Eden, with an attempt to trace the global pedigree from the inhabitants of that fabled land and from their real equivalents as revealed by modern biology. Genesis explains how the universe came into being, and I too gallop through history from the Big Bang to modern humankind. Eve’s acceptance of the Serpent’s promise led to original sin – to inborn imperfection – and biology has given us the ability to identify many of our own strengths and weaknesses even before birth (although the decision about what to do with such information has scarcely moved on since biblical times).
The topics studied by today’s physicists, astronomers and biologists have obsessed mankind since long before their subjects began. ’, ‘Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? . ’ The response to such queries was, needless to say, that the universe had been called into being by the Lord himself and that its beauties were evidence of his existence, proof that ‘The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handiwork’. That logic is empty, but the questions posed to the unfortunate Job have become the raw material of research.
The giants were swept away in the Great Flood but make a brief and unexplained return later. The Good Book’s fascination with ancestry finds a match in the obsession still felt by many people about their own pedigrees. For them, as for the Israelites, shared descent acts as a badge of membership of a family or a nation, and even as a mark of adherence to a particular faith. Genetics is poised to answer many of their questions. It can now read off the three thousand million pieces of information coded into the four chemical units or ‘bases’ of the double helix of DNA, the letters A, G, C and T, in a few hours.