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On their side, paleoanthropologists tell us that Homo erectus, with an
evolutionarily inexplicable rapidity, developed into Homo sapiens. All other
members of our closest relatives have had much longer evolutionary timing:
chimpanzees were almost the same for about 5 million years; Homo erectus
scarcely changed in about 1.3 million years and then disappeared and became
Homo sapiens, whose cranial capacity rapidly increased by 50%!
A brief “criticism”...
All these events find an explanation in this particular interpretation of the
Sumerian myth and biblical Genesis. Like it or not, convenient or inconvenient
as it may be, the Sumerians and the Old Testament seem to be closely
aligned. The Bible tells the same story recast in the light of a familiar
monotheistic vision that would have developed only in later centuries. Of the
original story they maintained the plurality of the Elohìm and the concrete
matter used by these “gods” to create man “with” their image and
resemblance.
The spiritual God, transcendent and unique, then, did not belong to the
experience of the biblical authors who have told us a very concrete story,
using the cultural means they had at that time.
And no Church has the right to distort the history in order to build a
consciousness controlling system based on perspectives that are distant from
those texts defined as sacred that, instead, have been purposely reinterpreted
by the ruling power.
Not surprisingly, a personal reading of such texts has been discouraged for
centuries when not explicitly forbidden.
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