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Origin of Man Again?

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THE controversy on ” Special Creation and Evolution”1 continues to recur periodically in spite of the fact that it has long been known to scholars and learned Kabbalists that the Biblical narrative of Genesis is a representation of Chaldean allegories. To-day in many branches of science, writers can expound their knowledge for the uninitiated only by means of similes, metaphors and analogies; and yet it is still the practice to translate and interpret ancient writings and glyphs literally and in terms of our present-day ideas, hypotheses and preconceptions.

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  1. NATURE, 135, 987, June 15, 1935.

  2. NATURE, 132, 506, Sept. 30, 1933.

  3. The Descent of Man”, second edition, p. 161.

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L., W. Origin of Man Again?. Nature 136, 106–107 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136106c0

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