Biblical episodes retold, gods and aliens evolution and more

Biblical episodes retold

Gods and Aliens

Evolution

and

More

By. Jorge Castillo

Biblical episodes retold Gods and Aliens Evolution and More

Published by Jorge Castillo at Smashwords

Copyright 2014 Jorge Castillo

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Contents

Introduction

The bible retold

Sodom, Gomorrah and the Flood

Exodus

She ate the apple

Looking for Eve

Out of the Garden of Eden

Asimov vs. Ten Commandments

Evolution

Laws of evolution

Evolution of wheat

Prey and predator

On human evolution

The early toolmakers

When to stop evolving

Continuous improvement

Extinction

On the existence of God

On creation

Looking for the Garden of Eden

Primal instinct

Reproduction by the millions

Re-incarnation

Extraterrestrial abductions

Aliens pull back

Introduction

I cannot call this a scientific book, it does not have the rigor and the methodology required o even approximate to what a scientific paper should be. What I am presenting here is a series of ideas/thoughts that came to mind while reading about evolution, watching a scientific program or, even talking with family and friends. Some ideas came out of nowhere, like an inspiration that did not let go of me until I put them on paper.

Any idea that goes against the accepted theories will face the opposition of almost the whole scientific community and will not have a chance of been even considered until that elite group of scientist, controllers or guardians of the true that dominates the field change their mind or go away. AS history can tell, for example, when Darwin proposed the theory of evolution, he was ridiculed, his theory rejected even without given to it any consideration because it did not agree with the established knowledge and did not have the approval of the scientific community of the time. Then as times passed and the scientific community started to change, his theory started to take ground, and today not too many people dare to challenge it, even so, it is not fully proved yet. So I do not expect less for the ideas I propose in this book, maybe the few readers that being curious enough decide to expend time in reading through these pages, will think of the ideas on it as worthless and with no merit to dedicate even a second though, others may come in their defense and try to expand on some of them, who knows. The worst that could happen is that these ideas do not see the public light.

I also present here personal interpretations of biblical episodes that somehow are related to the subject of evolution or creation, the survival and the reason for been of almost any creature existing today.

These controversial subjects are been presented without any scientific or theological rigor. They are as I said ideas that came to mind. The biblical narrations bring in content almost as much as they lack in literary style, they came to mind like an inspiration or a reaction to something read or heard; if God is a loving father why is he going to punish Adam and Eve and all humanity for a single fault. This did not made sense to me, then I realized that the story is true, what is wrong is the interpretations or explanations behind it. The same could be said about the Plagues over Egypt and the Flood, but let the hypothetical reader be the judge.

Some of the ideas about evolution came as a reaction to the position that evolution need to be taught in schools because it is absolute correct, and opposite to creationism, it does not require the existence of God. I hope that after reading what I wrote, their belief will not stand so firm and maybe trigger in them a desire to really search for a better explanation to all this evolution, creationism, the Bible and the gods. And also may change their mind of trying to enforce the teaching of some ideas over others just because we may think that they are the correct ones. What about if I tell you that the Ten Commandments are not of a religious nature but more of a social directive to help us live in harmony with each other (a social survival guide).

When talking about evolution, God and creationism, is unavoidable to mention Aliens, so some pages are dedicated to the subject and all over the book the references to Gods can be easily replace by aliens, as if the two names were synonyms.

In summary, I just want that you the reader take a look at this lines with a really open mind.

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The Bible retold

In discussing the creation process we can see now some of the stories told on the Bible from a new point of view. We will see how the creation of human and the placing of them in the Garden of Eden and their expulsion from it make much more sense. Also the stories of Sodom and Gomorrah even the universal flood can be seeing in a more logical approach than the traditional way.

Before presenting the new version of some of the stories let me explain the following, I grew up in a catholic family and went to school to a Christian Catholic one, so the religion was always present every day of my life. Since very early age, my grandmother told us the stories of the bible in a very traditional way, Adam was created from mud and then Eve was created from a rib taken from Adam. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the universal flood and so on. These biblical relates became part of me and I believed in them literally and enjoyed the adventures of Samson, David, the wisdom of Salomon even other stories that I can recall only in small details. Later on during my school years we had classes called Sacred History this was almost a repetition of what my grandmother have already taught. This early and continue exposition to the biblical stories gave me a good idea of them, in a literal way, I knew how the general story goes but not with any deep study of them. I was a passive non-critic listener that took the stories as they were told to me.

At this time I need to confess that during all my religion education I always struggle with the articles of faith and the believing in that all mighty God presented in the Bible through the Old and New Testament. I also struggled with the figure of Jesus and have some ups and downs on the matters of faith. I was told and needed to accept that the Bible was written by divine inspiration and also that the Pope was infallible in matters of faith. All this started to grow heavy on me and I started to doubt about everything that I was told, but at the same time I needed to recognize the existence of God because I could not conceive that the universe could exist if someone or something did not create it. So mayor confusion between my early learning and my inquisitive mind.

As the years pass I started to question all these teachings and tried to understand what they really were trying to say or what was in between lines. I could not understand why a God will destroy cities, punish his creations and even send some of his angels to hell for eternity. But also could not understand the existence of the universe without the existence of a creator.

Also while doing some random reading I came with the idea that God if he existed he should still be talking with us, there was no reason why, after talking with humans for thousands of years and also be able to inspire and or dictate the Bible to the person or persons that put it to paper (papyri or clay), he will distance from us and cut any kind of communication. At this point we also can start to mix the biblical stories with the UFO – aliens phenomena and some of the mythology tales, to complicate this big mess even more, every day scientist and scholars discover new documents or evidence that such things are not as told and that other were changed according to the interest of the scribes, the authorities or the rulers. With too many hands involved in the final version of the accepted documents, you are left alone to find out what to believe and what to accept.

All these, new and old documents, written in languages not accessible to my understanding and also not knowing if they are the very first originals, put you in a situation of uncertainty to what take for true and what not.

To cut the tale short what I am trying to said is that while writing this new versions of some of the biblical events I was flooded by ideas that I did not know where they came I am tempted some times to believe that is God who is inspiring me to write this under this new point of view to try to bring some enlightenment to the new generations, even if I do not know if this pages are going to get to the public knowledge.

Also I need to point out that my involvement with the science of Quality, due to my work as a quality professional, may bias my position with respect to some of the subjects object of this relates, where someone see evolution I see continuous improvement where others see intelligent design I see Plan-Do-Check-Act or Six Sigma approach. So do not be estranged if some of the way that this stories are told sound familiar to you. I look at these stories from the point of view of a manager or supervisor in a modern facility. He will be confronted with decisions about to improve some products or processes, with experimentation before releasing the product and so