Genesis, the seven days of Creation. Alberto Canen has found an alternative way to answer these and other questions in the Genesis. He has found a route no one had been to before, and invites the reader to discover ...Read Moreand make their findings with him. The author has found that hidden in the bottom of the plot there is someone. Someone who observes someone who tells. Someone who tells what he observes. And a place, a location from which he observes. Read Less

Well, if the solar system and the Earth have been in existence for more than six thousand million years since they were just a cloud of dust and gas floating adrift in our beautiful galaxy... how did we get ...Read Morethose seven days? Sure, I know, don´t tell me: pure superstition, myths, and ancient tales of various mythologies. Well, I don´t blame you, I was of the same opinion until, reading the Bible to my youngest son, I discovered that something was wrong with the texts of Genesis, or wasn´t? Read Less

Although Occident has not handled major figures-and when I say major figures I mean numbers as large as billions of years- in their mythologies, it may be interesting to note that in India, at the time of writing the ...Read Morewere already used to thinking of numbers of that magnitude. For example: according to the Vedic scriptures [4], the four yugas (ages) form a cycle of 4,320,000 years (Majá-yuga, or 'great age'), which is repeated again and again. Read Less

Chapter 4 AND IN THIS CORNER… LIVE! We saw earlier that life as we know it on our planet, began with and in the water. Water has a key role in our kind of existence. Consider that we ...Read Moreare composed of seventy percent of that element we could almost say that we are sea animals adapted to the surface. Well, we must place ourselves there and think that, the planet is cooling, the water remains liquid longer, and it is accumulating in the lowest places by simple gravity simultaneously. Read Less

Let´s observe carefully what this first paragraph tells us.In this description, I clearly distinguish the original chaos nebula of cosmic dust that science mentions. A sea of dust, for someone who may be watching in in the ...Read Moreand who does not have the slightest idea that what he is witnessing is not water but a nebula in which he (our possible observer) is floating . This individual is in the place, in the exact place, Read Less

LOCATION AND ENVIRONMENT Babylonians I also thought that this observer we speak about, must have been immersed in a cultural context, obviously influenced by the myths, legends and gods of his culture and of course, exposed to other ...Read Morenarratives. If the location we propose is correct, he must have had great influences of Babylon. Knowing then what the Babylonians said in his texts on this event can be very interesting. Read Less

THE SACRED WRITER To understand it better, I would like to refer to how the Catholic Church deals with the idea of ​​the sacred writer, the writer who captures what he understands to be the word of God. ...Read Morewe say that the texts are words of God, one could imagine that God has dictated the phrases that he wanted to reach readers in the author´s ear that´s how represented the authors of the sacred books are usually represented in many of the paintings seen in the churches. However, Read Less

THE OBSERVER Contemplating creation Fictional account that can help you understand the way some people have received God´s visions and revelations. Mesopotamia Semitic Village 1000 B.C. He was slowly regaining control, his control, control of himself, ...Read Morehe became aware of what had happened. His legs trembled his mind was a chaos of questions that demanded answers. What did I see? What happened to me? Did I have a hallucination? Where am I? The sheep?! Read Less

Chapter 9 MESSAGE AND TEACHING Well, I hope this little story I have retold serves to better understand what that vision, that revelation might have been. We now have a clearer idea about what could have happened, what ...Read Morehad actually narrated and about one more thing: the reason for the days. When I thought about writing the story of what the observer saw, I immediately considered the dilemma of the seven days. I thought: what if the seven days were not God´s days but the observer´s? Read Less

TRANSCENDENTALCONTENT The doctrinal content of the story, the lessons that persist after we finish reading it, the theological lessons we might call fundamental could include: • God is the only Creator of all things, of all the concrete ...Read Moreabstract, of what is above and what is below, of all entities and creatures. All matter, and the forces acting on it are created by Him and respond to His mandate. • The power of God, omnipotent and omnipresent, Read Less

EDEN Human nature in a controlled environment. It was not me, it was you. Very well. So Eden? Of course, Eden, I almost forgot. After Genesis, and its seven days, we found a new description of creation ...Read Moremade on a completely different way. So much so that, in general, biblical scholars say it has a different origin, another author, and it was probably written at another time. In this new description there is a different line of facts. Why not read the paragraph and analyze it? Read Less

THE SPIRITUAL PATH Religions Although the intention of this book was simply to compare Genesis with science, it has been inevitable to analyze Eden and while analyzing Eden was also inevitable to analyze the origin of the Jewish ...Read Morethe chosen people. By becoming aware of the task given to the chosen people I have understood so many attitudes and policies that have upset me, both of the Jewish people and the Catholic Church. Read Less

The Bible The Bible is a compilation of texts that were originally separate documents (called books ) first written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek for a very lengthy period, then assembled to form the Tanakh (Old Testament to ...Read Moreand then the New Testament. Both testaments form the Christian Bible. The Bible as such was written over 1000 years (from 900 BC to100 AD). Read Less

APENDIX II Valley of the Whales [15](Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt) 15 - Extract from a note of the National Geographic magazine in which Philip Gingerich, one of the researchers who worked in Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt, known as the ...Read Moreof the whales, is interviewed. I found it interesting that he referred to them as ferocious sea monsters. The Egyptian deserts were -over forty million years ago- part of the seabed of the Tethys Sea that surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea. Read Less

The location of Eden - Extract from an article published by Fernando Cohnen (16 12 2007) on discoveries made in Gobekli Tepe, Turkey. Despite how controversial the proposals of the British Egyptologist David M. Rohl are, the fact ...Read Morethat some parables of Genesis bear resemblance to actual events that took place thousands of years ago in the fields around the lakes Van and Urmia, nestled in the Fertile Crescent , a broad region encompassing southern Turkey, Read Less

APPENDIX IV Interplanetary dust, zodiacal light Astronomers have detected remnant and new interplanetary dust - the product of the arrival of interstellar dust and comets - in our solar system. It is called zodiacal dust and generates a ...Read Morethat can be seen in the plane of the planets, that is, the plane of the ecliptic, where the accretion disk was, in the beginning. Interplanetary dust (IDPs) is composed of particles up to 100 mm, Read Less