The Bible Revisited: Genesis 2.0
This is one of the must watch videos I have yet to watch. It shows the absurbness of the creation myth in the Bible. I do hope one of these days people will make videos about other religions as well. Although I believe informing people of the truth and showing them proof with scientific tests -other than teasing people by saying “everytime I look at the mirror I see the glory of the god”- will have no effect on them since belief requires complete ignorance, I do enjoy watching this kind of videos.
This part is taken from the video so; I am out and you are in. Have fun.
Text: “Genesis Revisited – A Scientific Creation Story” by Michael Shermer (“Why Darwin Matters”).
“To convey the logical absurdity of trying to squeeze the round peg of science into the square hole of religion, I penned this scientific revision of the Genesis creation story. It is not intended as a sacrilege of the poetic beauty of Genesis; rather, it is a mere extension of what the creationists have already done to Genesis in their insistence that it be read not as mythic saga but as scientific prose. If Genesis were written in the language of modern science, it would read something like this.”
• http://skepticblog.org/2009/05/26/the-atheists-genesis-revisited/
Michael Shermer (*1954 in Glendale, California) is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating and debunking pseudoscientific and supernatural claims.
Shermer is also the producer and co-host of the television series “Exploring the Unknown”. Since April 2004, he has been a monthly columnist for Scientific American magazine with his Skeptic column. Once a fundamentalist Christian, Shermer now describes himself as an agnostic nontheist and an advocate for humanist philosophy.
