UnGodly Genesis
How the Story of Genesis insults God's Intelligence
UnGodly Genesis
The most acerbic controversy is that between Creation and Evolution. There prevails an abundance of scholarly books and essays in favor of or against one or the other of the two. But a common sense examination of the story of Genesis does not seem to have been published.
Let us discard ‘Evolution’ for a while and start with, as postulates, the beliefs of the Creationists that the universe was really ‘designed and created’ by a ‘super-intelligent God’ who is also ‘omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent’. Common sense review indicates that Genesis violates its own postulates and cannot provide convincing answers to questions such as:
1. Would God really have needed six days to create the universe? Being Almighty, could not Ge have created the world within a trillionth of a nano-second?
2. If Ge really needed more time, why did Ge need six days and not more or less?
3. Ge did ‘create’ land out of water that was already there. Who created the water?
4. Why would an omnipotent God feel so tired as to need rest on the seventh day?
5. Did Ge want to create mankind? Whether the answer to this question is no or yes, the story of Genesis does not make any sense.
6. If God did not want to create mankind,
a) Why did Ge give reproductive organs to Adam and Eve?
b) Why did Ge make Eve a fertile woman?
c) Why did Ge not cause a miscarriage of Eve’s pregnancy?
d) Why could Ge not stop Adam and Eve from repeating their ‘sin’ after the first one?
e) Who were the spouses and in-laws of their children and who ‘created’ them?
f) Why did Ge make their children fertile?
g) Who were the parents of Cain’s wife?
h) Could God have been so helpless as to accept mankind that came into existence against Gis own will?
i) Why would God later love mankind so much as to send ‘Gis only begotten Son’?
7. If God did want to create mankind,
a) Why would God prohibit Adam and Eve from having sex?
b) Could not forbidding eating the apple have been Gis way to ensure that they have sex?
c) Why then do religions consider even spousal sex as sin? Could it be because they leaders want their followers to keep feeling guilty forever?
d) Would not the super-intelligent God have realized that the only way Adam and Eve could become grandparents would be through incest?
e) Would Ge have permitted such ‘initial incest’?
f) Would God, who provides a source of milk for babies even before they are born, not have had the foresight to ‘create’ at least two, if not more couples so that they could multiply into a mankind without engaging in incest?
g) Are we all products of incest?
h) Are we all descendents of the murderer Cain?
8. Why is it not possible that God first created the initial quantities of mass, energy as well as the laws of science and then used them to make the universe evolve automatically just as Ge has set up many automatic systems such as those to make days and nights and change seasons? (‘Created Evolution’!)
9. If the Bible could be wrong about the shape of the earth being flat and the earth being the center of the universe, why can it not be wrong about the mode of creation?
10. If God is the perfect intelligent designer, why aren’t babies born already circumcised in their mothers’ wombs? Why did the heroes of the Old Testament consider circumcision exclusively important?
Obviously, the story of creation as told in Genesis belittles God, does not befit Gis great virtues and is quite un-Godly. Therefore, proving Evolution to be incorrect does not automatically prove Genesis to be correct. Those who want to make others believe in ‘Creation’ need to rewrite their story to make it compatible with the ‘fundamental’ great attributes of God.