River of Eden

Garden of Eden

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The man was free to eat from any tree in the garden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Last of all, the God made a woman Eve from a rib of the man to be a companion for the man. In chapter three, the man and the woman were seduced by the serpent into eating the forbidden fruit , and they were expelled from the garden to prevent them from eating of the tree of life , and thus living forever.

Cherubim were placed east of the garden, "and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way of the tree of life" Genesis 3: But the king sinned through wickedness and violence, and so he was driven out of the garden and thrown to the earth, where now he is consumed by God's fire: And a river departed from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four tributaries. The name of the first is Pishon, which is the circumnavigator of the land of Havilah where there is gold.

And the gold of this land is good; there are bdellium and cornelian stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon, which is the circumnavigator of the land of Cush. And the name of the third is Chidekel, which is that which goes to the east of Ashur; and the fourth river is Phirat. In the Talmud and the Jewish Kabbalah , [36] the scholars agree that there are two types of spiritual places called "Garden in Eden". The first is rather terrestrial, of abundant fertility and luxuriant vegetation, known as the "lower Gan Eden".

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The second is envisioned as being celestial, the habitation of righteous, Jewish and non-Jewish, immortal souls, known as the "higher Gan Eden". The Rabbanim differentiate between Gan and Eden. Adam is said to have dwelt only in the Gan , whereas Eden is said never to be witnessed by any mortal eye. According to Jewish eschatology , [37] [38] the higher Gan Eden is called the "Garden of Righteousness". It has been created since the beginning of the world, and will appear gloriously at the end of time. The righteous dwelling there will enjoy the sight of the heavenly chayot carrying the throne of God.

Each of the righteous will walk with God, who will lead them in a dance. Its Jewish and non-Jewish inhabitants are "clothed with garments of light and eternal life, and eat of the tree of life" Enoch 58,3 near to God and His anointed ones. In modern Jewish eschatology it is believed that history will complete itself and the ultimate destination will be when all mankind returns to the Garden of Eden. There are several mentions of "the Garden" in the Qur'an 2: The narrative mainly surrounds the resulting expulsion of Hawwa and Adam after they were tempted by Shaitan.

Despite the Biblical account, the Quran mentions only one tree in Eden, the tree of immortality, which God specifically claimed it was forbidden to Adam and Eve. Some exegesis added an account, about Satan , disguised as a serpent to enter the Garden, repeatedly told Adam to eat from the tree, and eventually both Adam and Eve did so, resulting in disobeying God.

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It is recorded in the Doctrine and Covenants that Adam blessed his posterity there and that he will return to that place at the time of the final judgement [46] [47] in fulfillment of biblical prophecy. Kimball , and George Q. Cannon , taught that the Garden of Eden itself was located in nearby Jackson County, Missouri , [49] but there are no surviving first-hand accounts of that doctrine being taught by Joseph Smith himself.

The Garden of Eden motifs most frequently portrayed in illuminated manuscripts and paintings are the "Sleep of Adam" "Creation of Eve" , the "Temptation of Eve" by the Serpent, the " Fall of Man " where Adam takes the fruit, and the "Expulsion". The idyll of "Naming Day in Eden" was less often depicted. Michelangelo depicted a scene at the Garden of Eden in the Sistine Chapel ceiling. For many medieval writers, the image of the Garden of Eden also creates a location for human love and sexuality , often associated with the classic and medieval trope of the locus amoenus.

A preserved blue mosaic is part of the mausoleum of Galla Placidia. Circular motifs represent flowers of the garden of Eden. The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens , depicting both domestic and exotic wild animals such as tigers , parrots and ostriches co-existing in the garden. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Biblical "garden of God". Not to be confused with Eden Gardens or Eden Garden. For other uses, see Garden of Eden disambiguation.

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Genesis creation narrative and Adam and Eve. Ezekiel's cherub in Eden. Retrieved 22 December Because the action of the primeval story is not represented as taking place on the plane of ordinary human history and has so many affinities with ancient mythology, it is very far-fetched to speak of its narratives as historical at all. The Mythology of Judaism. The Mythology of Eden.

The Book of Genesis. Searching for the Garden of Eden. The God Delusion is meant to weaken the grip, and The Greatest Show on Earth is meant to explain the very basic tenets of evolution as well as dispel some of the most common misconceptions and weak arguments against it. His earlier books, however, were written for a different kind of audience. This audience already accepts the facts of evolution. This audience already has an appreciation for the world as seen through the lens of Darwin. And River Out of Even is exactly this kind of book. If you don't accept or don't like evolution, River Out of Eden will not convince you that you are incorrect.

The book you want to read is The Greatest Show on Earth. If you insist that all of this complexity surrounds us because sky-daddy deemed it so, pick up a copy of The God Delusion. But if you accept evolution, River Out of Even will take you on a fascinating journey. Dawkins uses Darwinian evolution as a lens to look at a wide variety of different aspects of life on this planet, leading the reader down dozens of unique "wow, I never thought about it like that" moments.

The implications of evolution often included things I never realized, and I had more "holy crap, that's awesome! Dawkins takes the reader on this journey with extraordinarily well-written prose, weaving concepts together seamlessly. The book never gets particularly technical, but it never reduces itself to pandering to the ignorant either. This is a book for smart people who think science is interesting.

If you've ever read about or seen an experiment that resulted in a feeling of heart-pounding excitement at its implications, you may well enjoy this book a great deal. Feb 09, Toni Daugherty rated it it was amazing. I finally get him!!! Your DNA is eternal, not you. It flows like a river through us and all creatures and we are merely the banks of the river that house the DNA for its continuation into next generation, and the next or not.

I have read many of Dawkins' books and articles and this is a winner! The concepts are not as difficult in this book a I finally get him!!! The concepts are not as difficult in this book as many others - rather - it's a layman's explanation of our beginnings from the replacation bombs in space to the biological zygote or previous bacteria and on to our own technological replacation bombs. Now, I get why he was lead to the next step: A fun read about the river of DNA that flows in all of us!

And, it was particularly interesting to learn about Mitochondrial eve and the importance of the female line as it is always a pure line no mixing of DNA there! Jun 19, James Murphy rated it really liked it. I thought this book elegant. The writing is elegant. Dawkins's use of analogy and example to explain the complexities of evolution is elegant.

He glides from idea to idea as elegantly as dance. I only wish I had more background. Dawkins' writing here isn't overbearingly technical. Still, not being a strong swimmer in science, I found myself at times over my head in deep pools of DNA and replicator genes and had to flail a bit before finding a toehold on some sandbar of familiar detail. That's no I thought this book elegant. That's not the author's fault but my own muddy understanding. To me his writing seemed clear, concise--impressively so--and even tinged with humor. Mostly it's smooth and effortless. Mostly Dawkins and I were good companions, Huck and Jim.

I'm glad I made the journey. Feb 09, Elisa Clawson rated it did not like it Shelves: I got this book for an english class. Richard Dawkins really bugs me. His view is that people who are religious are uneducated and delusional - hence his newest book "The God Delusion". View all 5 comments. Through the deceptively simple metaphor of a river of genetic information, coursing through time, Dawkins guides us on an incisive explanation of life.

It's far more inspiring and intellectually satisfying than any mythological Eden. Some Dawkins books can be a challenging read but, aside from a somewhat dull section on sex ratios studied them in university and never found the subject interesting this is a book that wastes no time.

Mar 29, Jo rated it liked it. Every now and then it's good to read about evolution to be in wonder yet again of nature and the universe that we live in Feb 15, Iordana rated it it was amazing.

Dec 29, Patrick rated it really liked it. It is very intriguing to think about how different organisms have evolved and have ended up so radically different from one another. Enlightening read and recommended. All earthly living things are certainly descended from a single ancestor. Something about their success rubbed off on their genes, and that is why their descendants are so good at flying, swimming, courting.

Genes do not improve in the using, they are just passed on, unchanged except for very rare random errors. It is not success that makes good genes.

It has also been estimated that the surviving species constitute about 1 percent of the species that have ever lived. It would follow that there have been some three billion branches to the river of DNA - …find that, one by one, they join up with other rivers. The river of human genes joins with the river of chimpanzee genes at about the same time as the river of gorilla genes does, some seven million years - The study of molecular biology has, in any case, shown the great animal groups to be much closer to one another than we used to think.

You can treat the genetic code as a dictionary in which sixty-four words in one language the sixty-four possible triplets of a four-letter alphabet are mapped onto twenty-one words in another language twenty amino acids plus a punctuation mark. The odds of arriving at the same Yet the genetic code is in fact literally identical in all animals, plants and bacteria that have ever been looked at.

Nobody would dispute that, but some startlingly close resemblances between, for instance, insects and vertebrates are now showing tip when people examine not just the code itself… - Genes are pure information-information that can be encoded, recoded and decoded, without any degradation or change of meaning.

Pure information can be copied and, since it is digital information, the fidelity of the copying can be immense. DNA characters are copied with an accuracy that rivals anything modern engineers can do. They are copied down the generations, with just enough occasional errors to introduce variety. Since what matters about biological molecules - …the most dramatic of these is one of the earliest: The distinguished embryologist Lewis Wolpert has gone so far as to say.

Essentially all embryologies throughout the animal kingdom undergo this same process of gastrulation. It is the uniform foundation on which the diversity of embryologies rests. Here I mention gastrulation as just one example-a particularly dramatic one-of the kind of restless, origami-like movement of whole sheets of cells that is often seen in embryonic development. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results.

Myths and faiths are not and do not. Sperms are too small to contain more than a few mitochondria; they have just enough to provide the energy to power their tails as they swim toward the egg, and these mitochondria are cast away with the tail when the sperm head is absorbed in the egg at fertilization. The egg is massive by comparison, and its huge, fluid-filled interior contains a rich culture of mitochondria. This culture seeds the child's body. So whether you are female or male, your mitochondria are all descended from an initial inoculum of your mother's mitochondria.

A picture is just printing ink on paper. It is two-dimensional, not three. The image is only a few inches high. It may be a crude caricature consisting of a few lines, rather than a lifelike representation. Yet it can still arouse a man to erection. Perhaps a fleeting view of a female is all a fast-flying wasp can expect to get before attempting to copulate with her. Perhaps male wasps notice only a few key stimuli anyway. There is every reason to think that wasps might be even easier to fool than humans.

Now only the scientifically illiterate do. But "only" conceals the unpalatable truth that we are still talking about an absolute majority. But Nature is neither kind nor unkind.

She is neither against suffering nor for it. Nature is not interested one way or the other in suffering, unless it affects the survival of DNA. During the minute it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive; others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear; others are being slowly devoured from within by rasping parasites; thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst and disease. It must be so. If there is ever a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored.

We don't know how often this has been achieved on our planet. Some philosophers believe that it is crucially bound up with language, which seems to have been achieved once only, by the bipedal ape species Honio sapiens. Whether or not consciousness requires language, let us anyway recognize the Language Threshold as a major one, Threshold 7. The details of language, such as whether it is transmitted by sound or some other physical medium, must be relegated to local significance.

Oct 17, Gage rated it it was amazing. I like how the author goes on tangents and tells the reader about interesting animal behaviors. Some of the topics are comical, like tricking bees to fly into rocks. The topics discussed were very interesting-it may have been the presentation-but the thoughts at the beginning were so novel that I really wanted to hear more. Some of the things it said have inspired me to look at some normally mundane things in a new perspective. When I finished the book, I was anxious for more.

River Out Of Eden i I like how the author goes on tangents and tells the reader about interesting animal behaviors. River Out Of Eden is about life. It puts some things in perspective while educating the reader. There are so many perspectives offered in this book, the author explains the work of many others. It gets the reader interested in biology. It explains content in an easy to understand way while connecting it to real life.

The book wasn't based on any topic more central than biology. Although there was a large amount of content about biological communities and their interactions. The author's presentation of the content shows his talent, as far as literature is concerned. The sheer amount of content demonstrates his massive knowledge on the subject. The combination of those two traits alone allows for this book to be written as well as it was. I would strongly recommend this to anyone who has the slightest interest in science of any kind.

This book has no vulgarity so the only age recommendation is just to be old enough to comprehend it. The text is mostly informal, so there's also no gender recommendation. I would not recommend this book to people who would consider themselves, "anti-science.

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Jan 27, Mike Jensen rated it really liked it. I really have only three minor problems with this book.

I am not impressed by Dawkins as a writer. His extended metaphor of the river down which all life flows, from the first single cell creatures to our eventual descendants, is actually quite an effective way of explaining the ins and outs of evolution, but it goes on and on and on, much like the river itself.

It is too much of a chore to read his book. I am not pers I really have only three minor problems with this book. I am not persuaded that whatever is true of our bodies exists solely to replicate our DNA in our offspring. Also, I honestly do not see how some behaviors, masturbation, for example, lead to offspring. Indeed, quite the opposite.

I do wish that Dawkins could make this adjustment in his approach, or if he agrees with these statements, that he would make it obvious in his books. Overall, however, this book does quite a good job explaining the origins and nature of life on earth, from the most sophisticated mammals and birds to the simplest fungus.

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