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Banish me from Eden when you will;
But first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge! -- Robert Ingersoll41

There are four ways in which humans differ from apes::
1. They have souls,
2. Their bodies are mostly free of hair,
3. Women suffer birth pangs, and
4. They speak.

Each of these changes is discussed in Genesis. The soul was provided by God near the end of the Sixth Day. Upon their expulsion from Eden, Adam was to “eat bread in the sweat of thy face”. And Eve was to “bring forth children in sorrow”.

Man is the only animal that sweats, or needs to. The great effort required to catch the food now available to them caused men’s bodies to overheat. Those with less hair …show more content…

But such a land is mentioned in the Bible, albeit cryptically. Theologians have dreamed up metaphysical ideas to tell us that no such physical place actually existed; that it is just a punitive spiritual condition. And preachers use those ideas as threats to sinners .

We shouldn’t laugh at the Bible. And we shouldn’t look for ego-serving fantasies to explain away its mysteries. We should very carefully read what it actually says, and search for outside clues to verify it, and possibly fill in more details.

The Land of Nod features prominently in the Book of Enoch, and its inhabitants are called Nodites. We find two men named Enoch in the Book of Genesis. Enoch1 was the son of Cain and the grandson of Adam. Enoch2 was seventh in the line of patriarchs descended from Adam through Seth. He was the only one of the patriarchs of whom it was said, “he walked with God”.

The meaning of this phrase is not clear. It may have indicated that he was the first to believe in only one God, though his people would continue to be polytheistic for millennia to come. Or it may mean that he was chosen to lead his branch of the people out of Africa into Asia, Archaeological data suggests that event took place about two thirds of the way along the time line from Adam to

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