Sounds like an attempt to reconcile, not science and religion in general, but specifically science and the Christian concepts of the Fall and original sin; or possibly some sort of Gnosticism.
(Aleister Crowley made similar remarks about individuality as a disease of life in The Book of Lies, but didn’t go so far as to attribute it to eukaryotes.)
Sounds like an attempt to reconcile, not science and religion in general, but specifically science and the Christian concepts of the Fall and original sin; or possibly some sort of Gnosticism.
Well the relevant story (God banishing Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden) is in Genesis, so it’s in the Torah as well. Gnostics considered the Fall a good thing—it freed humanity from the Demiurge’s control.
Sounds like an attempt to reconcile, not science and religion in general, but specifically science and the Christian concepts of the Fall and original sin; or possibly some sort of Gnosticism.
(Aleister Crowley made similar remarks about individuality as a disease of life in The Book of Lies, but didn’t go so far as to attribute it to eukaryotes.)
Well the relevant story (God banishing Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden) is in Genesis, so it’s in the Torah as well. Gnostics considered the Fall a good thing—it freed humanity from the Demiurge’s control.