1ST MAN THEN ADAM

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Summary: Is it fantasy or truth
Review: Either a whimsical and entertaining fantasy, or a serious and realistic attempt to reconcile science and religion, FIRST, MAN. THEN. ADAM! puts forth the daring idea that Adam and Eve were members of an advanced species from far off outer space who crash-landed their spaceship, effectively stranding themselves, here on a very primative earth occupied by early Homo Sapiens.

Skilled in genetic science, they were able to breed with these early peoples, to produce a long-lived (900 years!), durable and intelligent species from which present mankind is descended!

Dr. Ginsburgh, a Physicist, maintains that the Biblical Genesis story is a true though transformed history of this and following events (with the spaceship as the Garden of Eden and the ship's central computer as the Tree of Knowledge, for example). The shorter lifetimes and growing subsceptibility to disease of each suceeding generation of these early space/earth men and women is stated to be due to continual dilution of the space people's genetic heritage by interbreeding with native earth people.

A large number of occurrances described in Genesis are shown to be consistant with this space origin theory. The description of the origin of the universe given in Genesis, can, according to Dr. Ginsburgh, by giving modern interpretations to some of the terms used in the description, be shown to be entirely consistant with the current Big Bang Theory!

Altogether, this is a stimulating and challenging attempt to reconcile religion and science, and can be read as a serious theoretical proposal, or if this is too hard to accept, as, at least, a very entertaining speculation. Unfortunately, the book is not easy to find...

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Summary: Still Captivated 20+ Years Later
Review: I read this book at the suggestion of a good friend. That was 20+ years ago, and I am still captivated by it's suggestions. I would love to read it again, but alas, it is out of print, and my friend has given it away long ago. If anyone has one or knows where I might pick up a copy, please email me at [e-mail]. -Lori

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Summary: Still Captivated 20+ Years Later
Review: Its a brilliant concept, beautifully developed.

As a scientist he states that all of Genesis becomes true if you accept two premises: that Adam and Eve came from another galaxy and crash landed on earth and that the tree of knowlege was their computer and connection to their homeworld.

Ginsburgh then begins comparing the word "void" with a "black hole" and there was "Light" with the "Big Bang" theory of evolution. He explains how the first generations lived much longer as direct desendants from aliens and then as they mated with earth beings the ages continued to decline to our present day of 80+ years. etc. etc. etc..

He reinforces some of his observations with exerpts from the Tora and the Jewish verbal history (passed down from Rabbi to Rabbi over the eons).

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Summary: i read this book
Review: Somewhat,had a hard time reading and understanding it,but think what is going on today with DNA,what is it geomom???????,being able to clone life, with ginsburgh story,i say they did not have to breed with what he say were humans, i say they were a species of there own,similer to species here on earth, by god i think he is on to something here. there should be more study into this..and we are near to space travel, it could bbbeee! thonk about it....