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Had Einstein written the Bible, it would read like this
"The Bible According to Einstein: A
Scientific Complement to the Holy Bible for the Third Millennium," Jupiter
Scientific Publishing Co., New York, $34.95).
"It was a cloudless day in the Pleistocene (a geologic era
about 300,000 years ago). The women and children of a tribe of homo sapiens (wise man) sat
in the sun outside their caves. And a baby crawled to where the woods began. And the
mother stood up and yelled out 'na, na, na.' And back and forth she waved
her hand. But the child crawled behind a bush. And the mother hurried over
to the baby and did bring him back.
"Thus it came to pass that archaic homo sapiens
seemed to learn to give meaning to the grunts and sounds they made."
This according to "The Bible According to Einstein," is
how the early caveman first developed the use of the spoken word to
communicate. It is one of the countless hundreds of tidbits of information
contained in this book, surprisingly easy to read for a book on science. The book
is written in much the same manner as the Holy Bible and in the same format
as the Bible, with books (the books of the solar system; the books of
physics) and chapters. The book even has a "New Testament"
and an "Old Testament." It is written often in narrative form and often as poetry, just
as the Holy Bible is formatted. One of the greatest beauties of this book is
that it can be read just as the Bible is often read, with the reader turning
to that section that concerns what interests the reader at that
moment. The book does not have to be read only from beginning to end.
And in many instances the book reads just
as the Bible reads. For example, there are many sentences and paragraphs
beginning with the conjunction "and." Other sentences
beginning "Now it happened that . . ." and "Thus it came
to pass . . ." are strikingly similar to passages
in the Holy Bible.
Though scientific in nature, this book
does not ignore religion: It declares ". . . science enriches
the mind but only religion can stir the soul. And those who confuse
the two will have tormented lives."
Four of the books of the "Chronicles" deal with
four great religious leaders: Moses, Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad. A
footnote explains that the fifth major world religion, Hinduism, has
no founder. The Moses book, described as a "scientifically plausible
rendition of the Moses' story," gives unusual explanations for the
various plagues inflicted upon Egypt when the Pharaoh refuses
to release the Hebrews.
"Science enriches the mind but -- The Bible According to Einstein |
- GEORGE EVANS