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Entry: What's So Scary About Evolution?--For Both Left and Right, a Lot Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/whats_so_scarry_about_evolution#27031 Post contents: Kari Konkola: "Your “Abrahamic” classification does not agree with late medieval and early modern Christianity. The common view then was that humans were created good, but the fall drastically changed human nature. The essense of this change (original sin) was that the “beast in man”, i.e., animal-like part of human nature, broke out from under reason and took control of behavior." That's how an evangelical Christian friend explained the Fall to me, but it seems the opposite of what the Book of Genesis actually says. In Genesis humans are innocent and animal-like until they acquire the Knowledge of Good and Evil, becoming more like God in so doing. The first Sin was not animal passions, it was disobedience. The story resembles other early myths of human origin, eg Prometheus and the knowledge of fire. Sent at: 2008 12 01