I'm looking through the posts and seeing a lot of biblical postings.

First off, I'm a Christian...

But, the Bible obviously has various meanings implanted within the text. Did it not ever occur to you that some passages might be allegorical, some might have historical, literal, and esoteric meanings, some might elude to astrological occurences?

If you look at Revelations, this is plainly true. There are multiple meanings, multiple events, on earth, in heaven, in the solar system going on all at once, three or four cycles occuring simultaniously. Symobolic meanings, literal meanings, esoteric meanings, astrological meanings, all within one set of text...

Who's to say that one of the meanings in Genesis is that Ad'am and Eve were merely representative of the beginning of a species created through genetic engineering, that the tree of knowledge was representative of the leap from an instinctual animal to sentinent being (the fusing of chromosomes 2 and 3 into one chromosome), that the garden was not merely representative of the earth prior to this genetic leap, prior to this change to a sentinent being, perhaps we've been in paradise all along but this "change" has made it impossible for us to see this, or live without conscience as we did prior to this leap.

He placed at the east of E'den, Cherubim with flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life (the sunrise and the sunset).

And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil, and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever;

I mean really guys, if Ad'am and Eve weren't meant to be simply representative of the beginning of a genetically engineered species, then where did Cain's wife, and many other wives in the begats, come from?

And, after all, a person created from the tissue (DNA) of another sounds exactly like genetic enginering to me.

And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

And Ad'am said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh, she shall be called Woman, because she was taken from man...