After explaining numerous scientific reasons why the "Adam and Eve" myth is impossible Jerry Coyne wrote this:
"If there were no Adam and Eve, then whence the original sin? And if there was no original sin tranmitted to Adam's descendants, then Jesus' Crucifixion and Resurrection expiated nothing: it was a solution without a problem. In other words, Jesus died for a metaphor."
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
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