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One of Us, or how Adam was "lowered"

The wall between art and technology is only in the minds. T. Jansen

It is difficult to fit a person into the picture of the animal world, no matter what the apologists of this point of view say. Person has other programs, altruism alone is worth something, and he lives, though sometimes, by different rules.

You can talk a lot about the origin of a person, but it is more logical to call him the product of an experiment, an experiment of anyone, regardless of the name of the experimenter. And the Bible is not a hindrance here, but a help – especially if you ignore its specific interpretation, and take it on faith as a journal of observations. Everything has already been described and is supported by references to the factual history of the Old Testament. How much one can believe the texts of the Bible is a purely individual question. This is a matter of faith, independent of anything. The texts set forth in the synodal translation into modern Russian, taken as documented facts, are also given here.

From Chapter 1. Genesis.

27. And God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

This leads to a discussion about oddities in the design of Homo Sapiens.

And the rest is simple and clear. The experiment was a success and the experimenter (or experimenters) is satisfied. Other details in the text of Genesis.

From Chapter 3. Genesis.

22. And the Lord God said, Behold, Adam has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he stretch out his hand, and also take from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever.

23. And the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to cultivate the land from which he was taken.

24. And he cast out Adam, and set up a Cherubim in the east by the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword turning to guard the way to the tree of life.

Judging by the text, the experimenter (or experimenters) is in a panic. A self-reproducing Creation may well compete with the Creator. The experiment seems to be suspended.

The question of destroying the results of the experiment remains open, different solutions to the problem are possible.

Chapter 6 of Genesis is also devoted to these issues.

By the way, the words of the text "one of Us" clearly speak about the essence of the experimenter (or experimenters).

Further texts of the Bible are of no particular interest for understanding the origin of man. These are just the stages of historical development, often based on the example of one nation. There is a point of view that the experimenter continues to actively observe the progress of the experiment. This explains the chapters of Exodus, and the acquisition of the tablets of the Covenant by Moses, and the opinion that the experiment is not over.

Or, as a former taxi driver from New York said in old Jerusalem: You can ask "where and when", but don't ask "why".