The Bible Revisited: Genesis 2.0

http://www.youtube.com/SagansCosmos • http://www.youtube.com/AtheistExperience • http://www.youtube.com/TheAtheistExperience Text: "Genesis Revisited - A Scientific Creation Story" by Michael Shermer ("Why Darwin Matters"). "To convey the logical absurdity of trying to squeeze the round peg of science into the square hole of religion, I penned this scientific revision of the Genesis creation story. It is not intended as a sacrilege of the poetic beauty of Genesis; rather, it is a mere extension of what the creationists have already done to Genesis in their insistence that it be read not as mythic saga but as scientific prose. If Genesis were written in the language of modern science, it would read something like this." • http://skepticblog.org/2009/05/26/the-atheists-genesis-revisited/ Michael Shermer (*1954 in Glendale, California) is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating and debunking pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. Shermer is also the producer and co-host of the television series "Exploring the Unknown". Since April 2004, he has been a monthly columnist for Scientific American magazine with his Skeptic column. Once a fundamentalist Christian, Shermer now describes himself as an agnostic nontheist and an advocate for humanist philosophy. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shermer .show less...