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Full Idea
Has the famous story which stands at the beginning of the Bible really been understood - the story of God's mortal terror of science?
Gist of Idea
The story in Genesis is the story of God's fear of science
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (The Anti-Christ [1889], 48)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.163
| 4300 | The Bible has nothing in common with reasoning and philosophy [Spinoza] |
| 2918 | The story in Genesis is the story of God's fear of science [Nietzsche] |
| 23904 | The cruelty of the Old Testament put me off Christianity [Weil] |
| 8008 | The Bible is a story about God in which humans are incidental characters [MacIntyre] |