Same basic idea going on with the creation myth of the Judeo-Christian religions. So the Garden of Eden in the Bible, it's based on ownership. God basically says, you've got the run of the place, but you see that tree over there and that fruit?
So I grew up with all these different flowers from all over the world, all these different fruits, all these different vegetables, because my mother had this goal of creating the Garden of Eden . She just didn't like the story ending where Adam and Eve have to walk out of the garden.
Like a good Oxford debater, you always have three arguments. in the Garden of Eden .
find pomegranate trees in the backyard, like one or two trees. Now, we have this amazingly beautiful pomegranates groves I think that my, for me it looks like the, you know, the fruit of the Garden of Eden . Something that was the Adam and Eve are tempted to eat and we are rediscovering, actually, things that we can do with pomegranates since we so, have so many and for example, we can
And then that money can pay for probably free community college for everybody, maybe even free college for people. The snake tries to essentially undo the Garden of Eden .
Elon Musk's day. In the Middle Ages, Christian thinkers started to believe that, you know, we need to like get back to the perfection of Adam before his fall from grace in the Garden of Eden . Well, how do we do that? You got to be more. You got to imitate God. God was a creator, a maker. So add so we should
we're not talking to each other and feeling each other and in fact one of the researchers I was speaking to while reporting Brave New World said to me you know I don't think that the Garden of Eden was an apple tree that Eve sampled she said I think it was a cannabis Bush and I said oh yeah why is that she said well think about it you get thrown out
In fact, I am the father of soon to be eight-year-old now identical twin daughters. One of them is named Eden, for the garden of Eden , and one of them is Tybee, named for this island in Savannah, where I grew up and where we got married.
The entire purpose of life was to simply do the ritual gestures deemed to be necessary to keep the world exactly as it was at the point of its creation. It's as if all of the Western intellectual thought had gone into pruning the shrubs in the Garden of Eden to keep it as it was when Adam and Eve had their conversation. Now I'm not saying who's right and who's wrong.
As you say, the idea of humans becoming gods is very ancient. According to the biblical Book of Genesis, God the creator placed the first humans in the Garden of Eden and told them that they could eat of all the trees except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
And then that money can pay for probably free community college for everybody, maybe even free college for people. In the time of the ultimate redemption, when we reclaim that sacred space of the Garden of Eden , when we reclaim a society that deserves that, that somehow
Always these godlike powers become the new norm. Now who would have imagined that we would be able to with this ape-like, or Garden of Eden like, this ape-like organ in here to be able to adapt to these floods of information, vision, attention. Well, part of the answer is that as Carl Sagan pointed out, we share the medulla and the cerebellum with fish.
And then that money can pay for probably free community college for everybody, maybe even free college for people. And let's just remember in the first chapter of the Bible, the first thing that happens in the Garden of Eden is that the animals and-- everything is created.
that I had. But a really great example that I will give you growing up in Kigali-- actually, two examples. One, our home, my mother, I think maybe after she married my dad, she had this idea of creating the Garden of Eden right in front of our house.
Let's go through the list. What I can't find, I'll order through the kitchens at the show or my husband will go to Garden of Eden or something.
And if that's your view, if you really believe that mother nature is our mother and that the planet is perfect the way it is, or the way it was without us, then yeah, your goal should be let's just not touch anything and it will be like the Garden of Eden . But this is really how we hear people talk about things.
of so much time-- almost unnoticed substitution of the visible hand for the much more effective invisible one that Adam Smith talked about. I hope I have not held out the notion of a free market, and of a price discovery as a new kind of garden of Eden . For it was certainly not in the '20s, about which I wrote.
It is of absolutely no -- there's no reason to have it. All food we eat is genetically modified food. They didn't have cantaloupes or tangerines in the Garden of Eden . Over time, we have bred both animals and plants to do the things that we want them to do. Now, genetic engineering isn't more powerful technology, and the idea that it's just the same as anything else is kind of silly and