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Does any Christian denomination teach Genesis 3 as a description of human evolution from animals?

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One could teach Genesis 3 as a description of human evolution from animals along the following lines: - Adam and Eve eating the fruit in Genesis 3:7 makes their eyes open and lets them know good and evil. This describes the evolution of human intelligence, self-consciousness, and metacognition - They notice that they are naked. This can be seen figuratively as well as literally, since at the same time, humans lost their hair compared to other great apes - Additionally, God makes women's childbearing painful (it is not painful for most animals. The painfulness results from a combination of bipedalism and increased brain size) - And He forces them to plow the fields to survive (this can be related to what Yuval Harari calls the Luxury Trap ) In total, major evolutionary differences (high intelligence, nakedness, painful childbirth) are listed, which make humans stand apart from animals. One could suggest, that the humans created in Genesis 1 are still animals, i.e. our latest common ancestor with the other great apes, without high intelligence or human-like self-consciousness. And only in Genesis 3 do they evolve into intelligent humans. This intelligence and self-consciousness (and metacognition) then lead to existential suffering, very much in line with Camu's absurdism. Is there any Christian domination, that teaches Genesis 3 as a figurative description of Human evolution from animals?
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Aug 12, 2023, 08:57 PM
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