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Started by bYronitos, January 02, 2006, 12:33:44 PM

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Anti civilization attitude of biblegod.

It is known that the early man was a hunter. His very existence depended on finding good hunts on regular basis. Unfortunately, his prey did not understand this problem of man, and successful hunts were not quite as regularly happening as was desired by the man.

Further, hunting did involve a high level of danger too. Some the hunters themselves suffered the ignominy of ending up as dinner of some other animal, or even of another neighboring tribe.
 

The insecurity of food supp;y definitely a stumbling block. But the problem was alleviated some what by the advent of gatherer stage, where those not on hunting expeditions supplemented the diet by gathering plant products.

Real security of food supply was achieved only when man graduated to first reaping of the natural crops then actively planting them.

But agricultural produce required better cooking techniques than those required by meat. This required a certain level of specialization in the fields of grinding technology, pottery etc. Once this was achieved, the population increased at an unprecedented rate. Increasingly the agriculture became more complex as more food was required. The requirement of a flourishing agriculture triggered the technological development, and nuclear energy was a matter of time.

Clearly, agriculture should be regarded as the jumping ground. What does biblegod in this scenario ???  

Biblegod favored meat offerings. That can be easily fulfilled by a shepherd. But shepherds' economy is not varied enough, and no technology beyond cutting and shaping of a stick is needed.
Now biblegod favored shepherd Abel, and rejected the humble farmer Cain. His offerings were spurned and ridiculed without any rhyme or reason !!!

Cain went off an founded a settlement [grandly called a city of 3 residents],  a fixed abode and started a technological revolution !! What did Abel and his descendants contribute to technology ??? A stick. Later on a crook and other tools for shepherds were fashioned by the very craftsmen created and sustained by the labor of farmers !!!! Farmer could survive without shepherds but not vice versa !!!

Was biblegod plain cussed one or he cared the least for the welfare of his creatures??? What happened to an omniscient and loving entity ???
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Biblegod kept Adam and Eve confined to Eden after negligently or designedly denying them sexuality and procreation !!! [is it start of ID??]. What could the duo [not a real couple even] produce in technology ??? And technological development does require surplus man power, and there were no means of achieving that !!!!

Biblegod was anti civilization.
Human madness is often a most cunning and feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have been but transfigured to some still subtler form

--Heman Mellville, Moby Dick