Comments on: Genetic Engineering Gets Biblical (Gen 30)

By: michael

michael — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:52:33 +0000

Scientific evidence reveals?! Well then there must be academic citations to quality peer-reviewed papers in CREDIBLE journals — I await…

By: Blackmatterx

Blackmatterx — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:06:51 +0000

One more thing. The Albinos were known as lepers in the bible. Leprosy denotes white skin. Check it out! It was a plague and disease called albinism. Common symptoms today are pale skin, light eyes (blue, gree), light hair (blond, red), infertility, hypersensitivity to UV rays, low IQ, poor vision, weakened immune system…it has to do with the lack of melanin, which gets its blackness from Carbon, the building blocks of life. Black people are the only normal human gene, everything else is hybrid.

By: Blackmatterx

Blackmatterx — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:03:38 +0000

Yakub (Jacob) grafting process was the making of the albino race. According to science, white and albino at the molecular level, is one in the same. Scientific evidence reveals that people with blondhaired/blue eye and redhaired/green eye people share one common ancestor who lived about 6,000 years ago–the exact time of genesis and Yakub’s genetic engineering process on the island of Pelan (Patmos)! Yakub, also known as Jehovah I and King Yakubher of Egypt, a black scientist, subjected his followers to selective breeding, until the freckled and patchy albions turned white. They were quarantined in the Caucus Mountains, from whence they emerged 2,000 years later, wreaking havoc on society.

By: Daisy

Daisy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:43:25 +0000

Ah, okay — fair enough. The story, like much of the Bible, does indeed present some pretty intractable problems for literalists.

By: Stephen Moore

Stephen Moore — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:14:15 +0000

Oh, indeed! But I save my weeping for those that have not had the benefit of knowing better.

By: michael

michael — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:58:41 +0000

Stephen — sometimes it’s more apt to weep for a few modern defenders of such Truths

Daisy — I meant getting out of it if you have a commitment to the Bible as some infallible word of God. Because in that case the fact that it focuses on Jacob outsmarting someone doesn’t change that the method ascribed to Jacob in the story is wrong. As in, even as a metaphor it relies on an incorrect understanding of the world. Which would not be a problem for you but is a problem for those with a more literalist understanding.

By: Daisy

Daisy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:13:02 +0000

There are a few ways for to get out of this:

You leave out a fifth perspective, “this story is a charming folktale,” which doesn’t require one to “get out” of anything at all, nor to draw a symbolic meaning. That said:

The story is symbolic (of what?!)

I don’t have any special feelings about this story, but I can easily imagine a few ways to read it as a fable or metaphor. Maybe it means that what we think affects how we behave — focusing on something can alter the fruits of one’s labors, therefore focus on something that will produce the results you want. Maybe it’s just yet another tale about the clever underdog, reminding us that cleverness is more important than brute strength or that the “good guy” wins in the end. Maybe it’s a warning to reconsider our assumptions, because in this case, the brown and speckled sheep were the best of the flock. Etc., etc. I’m not saying any of these interpretations is correct — just that it’s silly and inaccurate to say that there’s no way the story could be read as symbolic.

By: Stephen Moore

Stephen Moore — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:07:01 +0000

Read the Bible as one would any ancient text of mythology and it is indeed interesting. And I agree that one refrain from laughing at the (what we now see as) ignorance of these ancient peoples. There were genuine attempts to understand nature, and they did the best they could with what was available to them.

Laughing at people in our modern times (when they really ought to know better) who try to defend the Truth and Profound Wisdom (when it goes against all that we understand via the Scientific Method and modern standards of Ethics) such passages provide is fine.