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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