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Science vs. Religion Postscript: Adam and Evolution
There's an interesting "evolution vs. procreation" discussion going on over at Grasshopper's blog Let Us Reason (see it here)
I'm going to copy my comments from that thread over to here for easier reference (for me and others) since it does relate to my previous science vs. religion articles.
You, of course, are free to ignore this post and read the discussion thread over there instead...
The question is: how does the creation account of Adam and Eve fit in with any modern theory of evolution (man evolving from apes through time). Are they contradictory? Maybe not...
What's the difference between humans and, say, cats and dogs? D&C says all things are created both spiritually and physically, implying all other animals (or plants, or rocks even) are, like humans, composed of a 'spirit' component of some sort. But is it the same kind of 'spirit' as humans? In other words, can cats 'sin'? Can they be 'saved'? Can they progress spiritually in the same way humans can? Were 'cat spirits' participants in the war in heaven in the pre-existence?
My sense says no: there is an inherent--and large--difference between the spirits of man and the spirits of animals, plants, and 'minerals' and the plan of salvation is specifically for mankind--those spirits specifically that are the 'spirit children' of God, and who's eternal destiny is to become like Him.
What's the point, then? Well, let's suppose the definition of 'Man' from a scriptural perspective is a homo sapiens body that contains one of God's spirit children from the pre-existence. Adam and Eve were the first Man and Woman because they were the first physical bodies to possess spirits of God's children. It does NOT mean, however, that they were the first man and woman in purely physical form.
The process by which God 'created' Adam and Eve's body is fairly vague ('from the dust')--why not suppose God took the time to create (through evolution) the 'perfect' body (i.e. in His image) through natural selection and then when the proper body was formed, THEN he put Adam and Eve's spirits into them. They would still properly be called the first Man and Woman because they're the first of the premortal spirits to obtain physical forms, even though their physical bodies might have had 'parents', in fact millions of them. (This answers the philosophical question, "Did Adam and Eve have navels?"...)
Side note: yes, of course, the human body is not 'perfect' which many people have pointed out. But whether the 'imperfections' noted by others are a result of the Fall (i.e. don't exist in 'perfected' bodies) or whether we just don't 'understand' the divine purpose in them or something else entirely, I couldn't even begin to guess. ('Darn it, Jim, I'm a computer programmer, not an evolutionary biologist!')
Yes, this is pure speculation on my part, of course, and this theory fits some of the 'data' but perhaps not all of it. (And no, this isn't an original idea. Other people have had similar arguments) In my opinion, though, there's more than enough scriptural evidence to conclude that Adam and Eve were actual people and not a 'myth', but how their physical bodies were actually created is still a subject for discussion. (See Grasshopper's thread for the 'procreation' part of the argument, which is a little deeper than I feel like going into right now...)
My mission president (who's an archaelogy professor) believes in evolution because in his words, "God took so much time and care in perfecting the spirits of His children, isn't it logical that He would spend much time and care perfecting our physical bodies as well?" As I mentioned previously, I don't think evolution and scriptural creation are mutually exclusive ideas, and I'm thinking we'll learn many previously unknown and interesting details about the creation later in the eternities, which we'll find quite surprising...
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well let me tell you some thing about your whole idea about aams evolutiion and our current stae of theoretical science. for one did you ever hear about the little boy who cried "wo;f,wolf,wolf." when this was a story a fable but more than likely a true story from some point in history. if you dont like fables then dont even try to research the history of that fable. if you want to find the true history of adam and eve, then do your own friggin research. take your time and puzzle together what you know and what you read, and not only that but also the facts you find along the way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: chris | Jun 10, 2005 2:31:18 AM
Does it really matter? Of course, if you are intelligent and need answers to you questions. What happens usually is that there are more questions that arise than answers to be found. Hard firm evidence. We usually follow a line of investigation that leads us to where we find the answers we desire (As Alma said, we must desire to believe). There is nothing wrong with that.
If you check Talmadge in the Articles of Faith he adresses this -- even considers the possibility of life being "seeded" here from elsewhere.
Have been a Mo for over thirty years, always studied. Philosophy of religion (taught by an athiest?/agnostic?) made me realize there is only one possibility that there may be some 'truth' in this world. That is, if it was restored at some point. I accept that the gospel was restored through Joseph. What has happened since then is debatable -- a lot of social/cultural memes have invaded but I don't believe the prophet would lead us astray.
If you listen carefully they are trying to lead us to the principles that Jesus taught. The CORE GOSPEL PRINCIPLES.
Just read the New Testament/BOM using only the words spoken by Jesus. It is enlightening on what we should be doing rather than arguing over points of doctrine/dogma. (How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?) WHO CARES
Posted by: libmor | Jun 19, 2005 5:10:54 AM
Hi! I am from Croatia and I have Ph.D. in physic. Here are my speculations about origin of mankind presented in the form of short story (with introduction).
Sincerely,
dr. Valter Krajcar
Croatia
Introduction to the novel Om
The problem of hominisation is connected with the definition what man is. His Holiness the Pope Johan Paul II gave the answer that man is different from all other life forms because man has the immortal soul given by God. I found that there are three fundamental differences between man (with soul) and animal (without soul):
1. Man has self-awareness.
2. Man has language.
3. Man has religion.
It is impossible to have religion without the possibility of understanding sentences like:
“What is the sense of my life? What will be happen to me after my death?”
So, there must be language to have religion. Also, it is impossible to have language without self-awareness because without self-awareness it is impossible to understand the simple sentence like:
“I am.”
Here is a word about language. Many animals “communicate” using a collection of movements and acoustic “words” (signals) to signify some situation, mainly some danger. Does it means that these animals have souls? Of course not.
In Japan there are monkeys living near the sea coast that wash fruit in sea water before eating. They made this (r)evolution in last hundred years. For one monkey the fruit accidentally fell in water and it found that the fruit has without sand and had better taste so it repeated this with new fruits. It repeated and repeated. Other monkeys, as monkeys, start to imitate that first monkey and soon all monkeys washed the fruits. Does it means that they have the soul? Of course not.
It is not miraculous that before the last half million years there were evolved intelligent animals, human ancestors, that “invented” and used fire in glacial periods because this “invention” had evolutionary advantage. As Japanese monkeys “invented” fruit washing, in a similar way very intelligent animals (Sinanthropus pekinensis) invented and used fire as a source of heat and for roasting meat. This is also evolutionary advantage because roast meat is without dangerous parasites or bacterium and those animals were able to eat (roasted) meat from frozen dead animals without danger. They were some kinds of scavenegers too, and in the glacial period, with insufficient food, they were probably cannibals and probably ate dead members of their own specie. Did they have a soul? No!
About 300 thousands years ago new hominid, Pithecanthropus erectus arose but that creatures, althought very inteligent, were without soul. Finally we arrived at Homo neanderthals, real men with souls, but arrived after Adam and Eve, about 150 thousands years ago.
Adam and Eves ancestors, neanderthals, were very intelligent, human-like animals. They used fire, fur, stone weapon and so on. All this is continuous evolution. Their throat evolved and they were able to produce large number of “words”. They had developed collection of large number of word-signals that they used in “communication”, mainly in hunting.They were like humans but they were not humans. They did not have three very important things and, of course, a soul:
1.Although there were intelligent and aware creatures (elephants, whales, dolphins, monkeys have very developed awareness and inteligention) they were not self-aware creatures. They thought about fire they made, about stones they treated, about animals they hunted but they never thought about “self.”
2. They did not have the language but large collections of very useful words-signals describing different situations and objects like danger, sun, moon, stone, lion, antelope etc. They used personal names. This is also evolutionary advantage because using word-signals and names in hunting, focus the response to only the creature with that name. There probably existed two common nouns, child and girl. Before hunting boy first received his name from the dominant male, before copulation girls first received their name from their “husbands”. Those creatures were able to invent new “words” for proper nouns. They also have many “rituals” to express some situations without words-signals. Their “communications” were only the exchange of signals, not really communication. Conversation did not exist. Language did not exist too. Language is much more than a large set of words. There are nouns, adjectives, pronouns, adverbs, verbs, tenses. Very important are personal pronouns. “Language” without pronouns isn’t language. Real language, although primitive, must have pronouns and, of corse, the most important personal pronoun is the first person singular. Pronouns are some kind of language inside language, symbols of symbols. As words (nouns) are “symbols” of real world objects, pronouns are “symbols” for other words. For example, for me the pronouns “I” is a “symbol” for the word Valter. Using pronouns is from an evolutionary point of view a setback because using pronouns I, you, he, she, is not clear without the context what is the mining of “he”, is e.g. Adam, Chain, Abel or Seth?
3. They did not have religion. Today, many people say that they are atheists but atheism is a kind of religion too, this is antireligion because people for some reason BELIEVE that God does not exist, but this is a believing, religion too. A third group of people, for example many scientists, are agnostics. They are not interested if God exist or not, but they also BELIEVE for example in science, in development, in humanity. They also ask to themselves “what is the sense of my life?” and they try to find the answer without God. In every case, all the people believe in this or that and they try to find the scope of their lives and this is religion in one or another form. Animals don’t have religion. Animals are not able to understand the abstract concept of SENSE, so they are not able to understand the question and try to find the answer in religion.
Neanderthals appeared suddenly. They buried their dead starting about 150000 years ago, so it was easy to find their skeletons. Those buried neanderthals were real man with souls. Neanderthals before 150000 years existed too, but they were animals and probably they were cannibals and ate their dead. So, there is small possibility to find skeleton of neanderthals (animals) older than 150000 years.
There must exist a moment when the first funeral occurred. The first deceased must be Abel and nobody else. It is impossible to have evolution of funerals. There were two possibilities, to eat the dead or to have a funeral. From evolutionary point of view, the invention of funerals is again a setback because without eating the dead there are more chances of dying hunger and not to have descendants. The reason for this evolutionary setback can be only religion, or in other word, buried neanderthals were real men with souls.
If I did not know the holy Script, the book of Genesis, my thinking would be something like this. Going backward in time different languages will become more similar and will fuse in to one language. There will also be extincted languages. Finally, there must be a moment in the past where there existed only one, the first language. In this first language, if it evolved slowly or quickly, there must be a moment when for the first time is used for example the word “why”. Somebody must for the first time said a word with the meaning WHY. This is a very abstract word from the perspective of a words-signal set and there is no simple way to explain what the word WHY means. Those who were able to invent the word “why” were able to invent similar words like where, who, when, how. The most abstract word is of course the verb to be.
But, if someone can be able to understand the verb to be, it must have self-awareness, it must have had not only awareness of surroundings but awareness of himself too. So, if someone is able to understand his own existence it is not difficult to recognise that there must be a new word that will transform his selfrecognition in the question: X I am? X means, of course , WHY, but there is the SENSE etc. In short, if someone is able to understand his own existence, is self-aware, he is also able to invent a first primitive but real language, not a set of words-signals.
In order to develop language there must be real communication, conversation, but how? There must be other persons for conversation. They must understand the meaning of new abstract words. There must also be the need for conversation. So the big discovery of someones own existence gives a strong need to explain this discovery to other neanderthals, but how? They know the meaning of the word sun. How to explain that the sun exist? Together with the word-signal sun, the first self-aware man with a soul spoke that sun exist and added a newly invented short word “OM”. He explains that sun om, moon om, stone om, tree om, and finally realised that he only repeat known word-signals adding a useless, and for neanderthals meaningless, short word OM. Nobody is able to understand the meaning of the mysterious word “OM”.
Nobody understood Adam. He went a long way searching for someone that would understand his new word OM. After many useless trials he must conclude that he is something special, different from all neanderthals he met. He knew the deep mystery of his own existence. What is the sense of this? He develop his religion. He is unique, so there must be a unique mighty and powerful “I am” that awakened him.
Finally, the first man had to find a person that understood the meaning of OM, but he is not sure if that person really understands. The second person understands what the problem is and speak “X is NOT.” where X is invented new word without meaning. She invented a new very abstract word. Without this word there is no real language, the word NOT, one of the first abstract words that children learn and understand very quickly and easily.
For the fast development of the first language there must be exactly two people. That can be male and male, male and female or female and female. The first and last combination are fruitless, a good lesson for homosexuals and lesbians. Today there would not be mankind but only by two people (man or woman) and their scopeless talking and language invention.
Man and woman can have children and they learn from the first day together with words-signals and other abstract words of the first language. There will be a big problem when the children grow up. They can’t marry among themselves. In reality than can, but today humanity is, in genetical sense, so different that it is impossible that we all are descendants of only one couple that lived prior to the last 150000 years. There must be, from scientific point of view, a second mechanism of new genes entering the human population. In the Catechism of the Catholic Church it is not explained how new humans arose after the first couple (Adam and Eve).
How for example Cain found his wife? I hope that it is not theological heresy for the hypothesis of how new humans entered Adam and Eve’s family tree. It must be mentioned that all children of the second generation and all other generations are really Adam and Eve’s descendants. The theological problem is what about newcomers? I think that the explanation is simple. In the moment when some neanderthal recognised and understood the name of God, the meaning of words “I am”, with the help of another man, in that moment he received a soul from God and become a man. Some were maybe not able to really understand the meaning of “I am” but they also received a soul from God and became man because they entered Adam and Eve’s family tree. I hope that this is not heresy. For example, there are two ways to become Israeli. The first way is if someone parents are Israeli, and the second is that someone decides as an adult to accept Israel culture, religion and belief in one God, maybe because he finds a beautiful Israel girl. A similar story is how to enter the Catholic Church. Maybe I exaggerate the speed of how Adam and Eve developed language, but I do this to shorten the story and to explain the problems they had in language development.
To conclude, this is a speculation that there were a first couple (Adam and Eve) that invented the first language and that they were neanderthals that lived about 150000 years ago. If Adam and Eve were a real man and woman, not symbols for humanity, then Cain, Abel and Seth are also real historical persons. In my speculations I found very interesting conclusions using “equations”: answer = imagination + logic + knowledge (scientific, philosophic and theologic). I tried to connect theological and scientific knowledge about human history in one imaginative but logical short story that is, I hope, consistent with scientific and theological points of view.
In Genesis 2,19 there are (I belive) two hidden items of information. The first is that man is master of all living animals and the second is that Adam invented new words for animals names. Adam must also have thought a lot about his (im)mortality. He understood that the number of neanderthals stays the same although neanderthals died because new children are born. Neanderthals are immortal in their children. Their immortality is carried by their children. Adam concluded that he would be immortal without children. On the other hand, Eve wanted that their son had the name Cain and Adam found in this name something horrible so he don’t wont to have Cain. Cain was conceived after the first sin. At the moment of his conception he received from God his immortal soul but also the first sin from his parents. If Cain will be conceived before first sin, Cain would be like the Blessed Virgin Mary, conceived without sin, but this is absurd!
In Genesis 1,28 God give the command to man and woman: Be fertile and multiply. If Adam and Eve were obedient than there would be a Cain conceived without sin. Why they were disobedient? Adam and Eve love each other and they will have sexual relations in Eden. The logical conclusion is that they were forbidden to have sexual relations before, and the command to be fertile after the first sin. There is a similar teaching in the holy Catholic Church about marriage.
If sexual relations were forbidden before first sin, then the first sin is the breaking of Gods forbidden act. The first sin is not in sexual relations between Adam and Eve but because in this relation Cain will be conceived and one day will kill his brother Abel and because they listen the Devil, they thought God is a liar and that they wanted to be like gods. Here also are explanations why Cain was so bad. Because he did not have love from Adam and Eve. They saw in him the reason for their mortality. He was guilty. After the first sin and command to be fertile Adam and Eve accepted other children and they gave to them much love, especially to Abel.
After the record of descendants of Adam there is the story of Noah and the flood. The waters of the flood came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. Noah, his three sons and their wives survived the flood in ark.
“Higher and higher above the earth rose the waters, until all the highest mountains everywhere were submerged, the crest rising fifteen cubits higher than the submerged mountains.” (Gen 7,19-20).
How is it possible that waters were about 7 m over all mountain crests that are at different height? It is possible if the water is in the solid phase! As six days in Genesis 1 represent about 15 billion years of creation so 40 days and night represent many thousands of years when water fell in the form of snow, the last glacial period when all the first men (neanderthals) disappeared. Only a small number of “new man” (Homo sapiens) survived in caves and spread through the world in three families, black, yellow and white races in many nations and languages.
Noah’s descendants domesticate the dog and other animals taking young animals, male and female. This all is in form of the flood and tower of Babylon story as explained in the first 11chapters of Genesis.
The records of Adam and Noah’s descendants shows more and more short life spans. Here again are two information hidden in that records. The first, short life shows that man was more and more far from God, and the second piece of information is that the time period from one symbolic story to the second story was shorter and shorter until the (nonsymbolic) story of Abraham.
Om
One young neanderthal man was looking at the midday sun for a very long time. He had no give a name. At one moment, temporary blind, he screamed full of happiness:
“Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooommmm!”
Again:
“Ooooooomm!”
Finally:
“Om!”
Something is missing! He invented a new monosyllable and cried:
“Ig om! Ig om! Ig om!”
He ran to his horde and excitedly started to cry at everyone:
“Ig om! Ig om! Ig om! Ig om Adam! Adam om!”
All neanderthals jumped confused with unknown words-signals. What kind of danger is coming?
Adam calmed down, and with his hands explained to everyone to come close and to sit down. He thought a few moments how to explain his big awakening and start:
“Sun om. Moon om. Stone om. Tree om. Hare om. Lion om....”
Adam continued to speak all known words-signals, he repeated:
“Adam om.”
Then he continued to list the names of all the present neanderthals adding mysterious word-signal “om”. No one understood why Adam repeated all known words-signals adding short word “om”. What is “om”?
Adam was very disappointed. He tried many times to repeat and explain his great awakening but this was a wasted effort. The first man was very lonely. After one week he abandons his horde in search of other hordes. Maybe someone will understand? He visited a lot of hordes. Sometimes some neanderthals started to repeat after he words-signals adding “om”, but Adam understood that they do not understand the meaning of “om”. Adam searched for three years. He thought a lot about the moment of his great awakening and he realised that together with his “ig om” there must be a mighty and powerful Ig Om that awaked him. From the beginning he thought that Ig Om is sun but later he realised that mighty Ig Om created both he and the sun.
He thought a lot about the time before his great wake-up. He remembered the scenes from this very long dream. The most painful scenes were the feasts. Although often hungry, he was not able to eat meat of dead neanderthals. Now he understands why. One day someone will eat him! This is not possible! He tried to understand his own death but was unable to do this. He remembered again his great wake-up. Adam visited many hordes and he did not find one who understands him. He realised that he is very exceptional. Although outside he is the same as other neanderthals, he knows the secret of “ig om” and his ig om will continue and continue without end. Nobody will ever eat him. All this Adam thought in images. Finally, in one horde he found a beautiful young girl that listened to him very carefully. She was without a name. At one moment she opened her eyes wide, smiled and shouted:
“ Ig om!”
Then she starts to list:
“Ig om! Adam om! Sun om! Moon om...”
Adam was shocked and happy at the same time. That girl understood or maybe not? Maybe she only repeated what she heard? The girl looked Adam at the eyes and she understood what is the problem. She thought for a long time how to explain to Adam that she is awake too. The girl was in shock of this profound notion that she discovered with the help of Adam. How to convince Adam she is awake? Finally she found the solution:
“Cain nug om!”
Adam was shocked again. Something was horrible in word Cain that Adam never heard. That must be the name, but whose? He that has that name must be horrible too. Finally what is “nug”? The girl on the contrary found the invented word to be very pretty. This will be a good name for her son when he grows up. She started to select from her long dream the moments when other neanderthal women of her horde brought forth young. She felt a desire to give herself to Adam. Again came new images of copulations of the same neanderthal women and the girl discovered something amazing. She thought in images about that discovery and she was filled with enthusiasm. She will ask the name of Adam but not before she explained her discovery to him. After Adam awake her, the girl will repay with her discovery. How can she explain this? The girl made a neanderthals ritual of the female ready for first copulation. She looked for the name of Adam. That was what he wanted more than anything. Finally, he awoke a beautiful girl. Now he is not alone. He will never be alone. He cried:
“Eve!”
Eve stood up and said:
“Lobe!”
Than she concluded:
“Eve om!”
Now Adam was confused again. There was not doubt that Eve is awake but Adam does not understand why Eve refused him after she received the name and what means “lobe”? That word he had never heard. Eve repeated again the ritual and again stopped Adam pronouncing the same word. Adam finally understood what lobe means. Eve was insufficient with just one word. She said:
“Day om hont sun om. Sun nug om hont night om.”
Adam understood meaning of words hont and nug. Now he understands the sentence “Cain nug om”. Thanks to mighty Ig Om for the horrible Cain nug om. How to explain to Eve that he understood the meaning of word hont? He invented a new example:
“Cloud om hont rain om.”
Eve smiled and confirmed:
“Sa!”
Adam understood that new short word. Eve was now able to say her great discovery. Great, but many times less than her big wake-up with Adams help. She explained:
“Adam lobe Eve hont child om hont Cain om.”
Adam was shocked again. He liked to play with children and to teach them words-signals. He want’s to lobe Eve and he want that Eve has children. He thought in images and saw Eve and himself in lobe, in the second image he saw Eve, the child and himself and in the third image he saw Eve, himself and Cain. Something horrible was in the third image. He wanted never to see this third image but then understood that he will never see the second and the first image. While Adam was thinking, Eve too was thinking about her discovery and she looked at images from her long dream. She played with her fingers while she remembered nights with a full moon wich fascinated her to look at. She remembered many other images. The images of the last months were the most clear. She remembered that one month ago Haga had a child. She remembered Haga’s first copulation. She went back in time and realised something new. When she finished, all the fingers of her hands were stretched out. Eve told to Adam:
“Adam lobe Eve hont (here she lifted his hand with extended fingers) moon hont child om.”
Adam does not understand. Eve took one small stone, stretched out her thumb of right hand and invented new word; 1. Than 2, 3, 4, until 10. Here she stoped. Adam understood and continued; 11, 12, 13, until 20. Eve repeated this time without help of hands:
“Adam lobe Eve hont 10 moon hont child om.”
Adam was confused how Eve this knew although he founded that some connection existed, remembering images from the big dream, but this is not important. Now he was able to say his great discovery:
“Adam om 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 sun.”
Eve understood the meaning of these long sentences although she was not able to understood long series of 20s. Adam concluded that the same must hold and for Eve because she is awake too and he said:
“Eva om 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 sun.”
After that he invented new long word:
“Adam om jotupesodo. Eve om jotupesodo.”
Eve repeated exalted:
“Adam om jotupesodo. Eve om jotupesodo.”
They were very happy and overjoyed. Adam embaraced Eve. They went a long way toward the east. They observed other neanderthals that looked confused with a lot of unknown words-signals. After three months they found a beautiful valley with a river. There were lots of fruitful trees and wildlife and they do not see hordes nearby. Here they decided to om jotupesodo. Eve then wished for lobe. Adam wished too, but on the way to the Eden he realised that mighty Ig Om wants Cain om nug jotupesodo although he does not understand why. He was convinced that Eve and he nug om jotupesodo if Cain om. They will die if they do not obey a mighty Ig Om. On the way they talked and invented new words. They retold to each other many times their long dreams. Every time the story was longer and richer. The first language evolved. Eve now pushed Adam for lobe. Adam does not want to tell what he realised about the mighty Ig Om forbidding and what the consequence will be if they disobey. He reminded Eve that they om jotupesodo and they can wait 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 sun before they lobe. Eve realised that Adam was right. They have the whole of eternity. They were overjoyed in the Eden. However, after three years Eve so wished for lobe that Adam finally said the truth. Mighty Ig Om forbid they lobe. If they lobe , they will die. Eve cried through tears:
“Pejao?”
Adam does not have the answer. That night there was a full moon. Eve awoke and looked the moon. She found the solution and awaken Adam. She told him that yesterday they lobe. Adam was confused. Eve confused him many times. They never lobe. Why did Eve say this? Eve then said a new word. Adam was very confused. They talked and talked and until now that which they talked of was the same as images from the past. Now Eve said one thing and the images are different. Eve invented new examples and Adam finally understand that such strange words that spoiled the hole picture. From now images and conversation are not the same! This does not have any sense. That word they will never use. Their conversation will always be the same as the images.
But Eve was insistent. There was another word. Eve again gave a few examples that were the same as Adam’s images from the past. Adam liked these examples. This new word they will use but the second they will never use. Eve opose against him and explained that if truth exists then the lie must exist too just as day and night, sun and moon, Adam and Eve. Finally she explained that just as mighty Ig Om exists and Adam understood when he awoke looking at the sun, there is also a mighty Gi Om that she realised tonight while looking at the moon. For Adam this was horrible. There is only one mighty Ig Om! Eve than asked why are there sun and moon, day and night, Adam and Eve? Adam was not able to answer this question. Although, he again repeated that there is only one powerful Ig Om. Eve told Adam that to him the mighty Ig Om forbids lobe and if they disobey they will die, in some way mighty Gi Om told to Eve that mighty Ig Om is lying. The truth is that they will be like mighty Ig Om and mighty Gi Om because they will teach Cain the language so Cain will be awakened too. Adam was again confused. Maybe Eve tells the truth? Maybe Ig Om told the lie and Gi Om the truth? They will be like gods!
In the morning, with the first of sun rays Eve found a strange light in Adams hair. She looked more closely and discovered one silver hair. Adam looked carefully at Eve and discovered small wrinkles near her eyes. They start to cry. Gi Om told them the lies.
Together with pairs day and night, sun and moon, truth and lie, they realised and invented two new words, good and evil and one more word - the sin. With this sin they lost their immortality. Cain will be mortal too.
After ten months Cain was born. Adam realised that now, when they are mortal, powerful Ig Om wants that they have many children. After two years Abel was born. After one more year Seth was born and then two daughters and again a son, a daughter and a son. The favourite child for Adam and Eve was Abel. He learned the language faster and he invented a lot of very useful words. Cain slowly learned language. Adam was convinced that Cain does not really understand the deep meaning of word om. He thought that Cain is like a neanderthal, not human. Eve does not like Cain also. Cain was the cause why she lost her immortality, but after that she enjoyed the other children and especially Abel. Cain felt this. He invented a new word that he never told but he thought about this word all the time. He orded Adam, he orded Eve, but he strongly orded Abel too. One day Adam realised what was so horrible in the name of Cain when Eve said for the first time that name.
Cain was gone. Adam realised one consolation in the years after first sin. His body may become old but there is his ig om that will never disappear, even after dead. One day his ig om will be in mighty Ig Om and one day he will receive again his immortal body. Adam and Eve agree that they will not eat Abel. When they agreed this, Adam found the solution of the problem he had been thinking about for a long time. How to find the husbands and the wives for their children? Neither Adam, nor Eve ate meat at feasts even though they were in his long dream without ig om. He must find some horde and wait for the first small or big feast. Then those who don’t eat roasted meat of a child or an adult neanderthal is not a neanderthal but man in a long dream that is waiting to be awakened. Adam comprehended that a man who does not eat meat now will never eat body of another man. He explains this to Eve and repeat three times:
“Nug jotupesodo! Nug jotupesodo! Nug jotupesodo!”
Something told to him that this is not true. After many generations new Adam will come and a very large number of humans will be at his feast. The story now will be reversed. Those who will eat his body will become a new man. This new Adam will be very alive even though a large number will eat his body. Adam wanted to be like Ig Om but he made first sin. New Adam will really be mighty Ig Om and he will destroy all sins. There will exist an new Eve. New Eve will come before new Adam and will not be his wife but his mother. Adam knew that all these words come from mighty Ig Om but without images. He speaks all these years and he learned to think with the help of images and with the help of words, but all of these words he was not able to understand. He thought a lot about this and he told the story of new Adam and new Eve to Eve, but Eve also was not able to understand the story. Eve only concluded that their story and the story of new Adam and new Eve is like the relation of night and day, moon and sun.
They covered Abel with flowers at the place where Cain killed him. Tomorrow scavengers started to come around Abel. Adam chased them. He does not know what to do with Abel’s body without his ig om. He does not want scavengers to eat the body and he finally decided to cover it with earth. This was first funeral in the history of mankind.
After very long conversation Adam and Eve decided to tell Seth and other children all of the story from the beginning, from the moment when Adam woke-up to the moment when Cain killed Abel. All the children were fascinated with the story. Seth concluded that they would not be if their parents don’t first disobey the mighty Ig Om command, so they decide to obey his command to multiply. They were unhappy that they aren’t immortal as their parents had been, but they were consoled with the existence of their ig om after their death. Adam explained to children one more fact. They are only men on the earth and they must obey the mighty Ig Om’s command to multiply too, but they cannot marry their brothers and sisters. Somewhere there must be men and women in the big dream waiting to be awaked and to receive ig om, to realise that they exist, and that they are capable of learning the first language.
Adam and Seth went a long way in searching for men in a big dream, the future wives and husbands of Adam and Eve’s children. They returned after a few years. Awaked men and women passed a long way in learning language but now it was easier than for Adam and Eve because one side knew the language. Adam and Eve’s grandsons and granddaughters married. The number of humans grew fast and the Adam and Eve’s descendants divided in tribes and moved in four directions. Humans multiplied among them but occasionally they renewed the blood with new genes of newly awaked humans. New species, real humans, Homo neanderthals (with ig om) spread fast and they soon covered Europe, Africa and Asia. Thousands of years passed. The number of humans increased but food became scarce.
The story of Adam and Eve passed from generation to generation. Together with humans there were neanderthals without ig om. More and more sparse hunting-gronud were divided among them. Someone found the solution inspired with the story of Cain. Neanderthals that do not talk must be killed and there will be more food. Later someone concluded that they must kill neanderthals that talk with incomprehensible dialects of the first language. Finally, Cain’s inheritance spread to the principle of everybody against everybody. The first pre-flood world war continued for thousands of years. There was no time for burring of the dead. A small group of Adam and Eve’s children somewhere where Europe, Africa and Asia meet were upset by this brother-kiling madness. They hid themselves in caves. Those were new humans, Homo sapiens.
On day a young new human looked confusedly at the sky. Strange small white cold leaves fell down and transformed to small water drops on his hand. These strange white leves he had never seen in his life. That was the beginning of the flood...
The short first language dictionary
om - to be, existence, being
ig - I
ig om - I am, soul
Ig Om - God
nug - not
nug om - is not, doesn’t exist
lobe - sexual relation, love
hont - then, after that, follows
sa - yes
sun - year
jotupesodo - continuously, permanently, infinity, forever
pejao - why
Gi Om - Devil
ord - to hate
nug jotupesodo - never
ho - to have
ho om - to have existence, human
o - to understand
om o - to understand existence, human
ho om o – to understand own existence, human
Posted by: Valter Krajcar | Jun 30, 2005 1:35:51 AM
