A CAPTIVE OF HIS CULTURE:

The Genesis enigma: How DID the Bible describe the evolution of life 3,000 years before Darwin? (Christopher Hart, 18th July 2009, Daily Mail)

The revelation came to Professor Andrew Parker during a visit to Rome. He was in the Sistine Chapel, gazing up at Michelangelo's awesome ceiling paintings, when a realisation struck him with dizzying force.

'A Biblical enigma exists that is on the one hand so cryptic it has remained camouflaged for millennia, and on the other so obvious one cannot miss it.'

The enigma is that the order of Creation as described in the Book of Genesis, and so powerfully depicted in the Sistine Chapel by the greatest artist of the Renaissance, has been precisely, eerily confirmed by modern evolutionary science.

If Darwinism departed in any serious way from the Capitalism, Christianity, and Colonialism of mid 19th Century Britain, no one would have listened. It is precisely because he followed the evolutionary scheme of Genesis while applying capitalist mechanisms to derive a justification for Imperialism that he got a hearing.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 18, 2009 8:56 AM