<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Lee Berman <severiansola@hotmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "urth@urth.net" <urth@urth.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, October 1, 2012 2:59 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> (urth) Seawrack and the Mother<br> </font> </div> <br><br><br>Heh, though I think Adam and Eve are incestuous. Given that she was cloned from cells of Adam's<br>rib, they are identical (almost) twins. I have a half-baked theological theory that Original Sin<br>involved the sin of incestuous lust, hence the fig leaves being the first response to "knowledge".<br><br>Thus you have the judeo-christian reversal on the surrounding religions, in which the gods were <br>incestuous but the people were not. I think religion is a better motivator if sin and the blame for <br>it goes to the people, rather than the gods. <br>_______________________________________________<br><br><br>Yes, exactly. Adam did not create Eve, but his material was used in her creation, Galatea-like. So you have the usual questions: why create a man
without a woman at all? what kind of man could he have been? were his genitalia retrofitted? And so on. <br><br>We could theorize that Adam was in fact a kind of vertebrate sponge capable of reproducing asexually but who did so only once before his design was reconsidered. Except that we'd have to explain how asexual reproduction could produce a female in the first place. Again, look to the (parthenogenetic) fish and lizards, right, Lee? ;)<br><br>As for your second point---that would surely represent a small step in moral evolution.<br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>