Genesis According to Aztecs
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One of the questions Jones then raises, but cannot answer, is when does the 'soul' enter the human body, if, of course it has one. He tells the story of an American surgeon, back in 1901, who was able to weight some elderly people just before and after the moment of death - reaching the conclusion that their bodies lost weight at death, and that the soul therefore had weight. We are told also that the same procedure carried out with dogs showed no loss in weight. His aim was to prove that something as sophisticated as the human soul was physical entity. Of course, due to evaporation, the body loses weight moment by moment. However, Jones declines to pass judgement on the surgeon's claim, preferring to move on to the question of when does the soul enter the body of a new child? According to the Roman Catholic Church, it enters at conception. If that is correct, then what happens with identical twins, which result from the splitting of an egg some time after fertilization. Where does the extra soul come from? Nobody knows, and neither does he.
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To add to the confusion, the medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas thought the entry of the soul was a gradual process, and taking twice as long for boys as girls Biology is not able to answer these questions, nor why or how the fertilized eggs of fraternal twins can sometimes fuse together to form a 'chimera'. Add to that why men and women exist in almost equal numbers, and why they look different. And so sex continues to raise questions that biology, i.e. evolution, just cannot answer, despite the 'serpent's promise' of wisdom. Jones does claim to have 'partial' answers to 'some' of the questions. But the biggest issue, he admits, is 'how the business got off the ground in the first place'. 'At least twenty theories are in circulation' he informs us. Oh dear!
Sex and the Song of Songs Having sorted that lot out, Jones moves on to the Song of Songs, the overt sexuality of which led Mormon founder Joseph Smith to exclude it from his version of the Bible. Smith, like scholars over the centuries was evidently unaware that Solomon's enigmatic masterpiece is in reality a master class in the principles of creativity and genius, thereby complementing Proverbs and Ecclesiastes to complete a practical wisdom trilogy - a simple fact made known by an author not too far from here! Nevertheless, a recent book described the Song as 'an embarrassment' to the Church.
