Re: mtDNA Eve and the determination of humanity

In a message dated 3/1/2006 5:32:18 AM Eastern Standard Time,
pruest@mysunrise.ch writes:
Sin and sinfulness, being a spiritual quality
(or rather defect), cannot be inherited biologically.
Animals without self consciousness cannot sin. The lower down the
evolutionary ladder you go, the more the organisms behave instinctively. Adam's fall is
the development of self consciousness and the abandonment of instinctive
behavior. Original sin CAN and IS inherited biologically.
If you simply read the language, without interpretation, this is exactly what
genesis is telling you.
And the knowledge is perfect. Eve will have pain in childbirth due to her
sin. We know the pain in childbirth comes from the epxansion of brain size with
evolution that spawned a whole host of problems/issues for the developing fetus
resulting in what developmental scientists call neoteny. The biblical author
did not know evolution but could see he differnece between animal births and
human births and what the issues were simply by observing.

There is no spiritual quality to sin. Sin is making a mistake that
compromises your survival.

rich faussette
Received on Wed Mar 1 07:53:51 2006