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Date Posted: 22:47:04 08/31/02 Sat
Author: Drummond
Subject: Or you can say that Adam was a metaphor for an amoeba
In reply to: schwabra 's message, "I wish I could refute this" on 19:43:25 08/31/02 Sat

And the introduction of sex in place of budding (defeating immortality) was the "apple."

The genius Alan Moore in his new series "Promethia" (based on a college student who became a goddess/superheroine as the result of writing a poem) wrote a lengthy poem about the development of human consciousness in the latest issue, the following portion of it in reference to the creation story.

"The Lovers" see them 'neath their tree
vessels of sacred alchemy
in sex's crucible they stir
the red and white
the him and her

In Eden once they knew sex not
nort death, nor any of that rot
Being amoebas, the were quite
immortal and hermaphrodite

(That they're amoebas is implied
by Eve grown from her husband's side)

Thous in a deathless state of grace
They've not much use around the place
the wily serpent DNA
brings sex and death here into play

With these two factors there can be
progress and possibility
thus do we "fall," does Eden end
(or in genetic terms descend)

Unlike amoebas, if they'd thrive
things now must kill to stay alive
our animal dilemas plain
we're either Abel, else we're Cain

Hmmmm. Being an agnostic, I'd still say there are some interesting symbolic coincidences, don't you think?

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