Article November 12, 1979 Issue

Lambing time and Mind's momentum

LORELEI F. ECKEY

A perennial subject for discussion is whether the Adam-and-Eve story of creation (Genesis 2 and 3) should be taught in the schools along with Darwin's theory of evolution.

Christian Science sees creation in a different light from both of these. As the first chapter of Genesis makes clear, God is the one creator. He not only causes all that is but makes nothing unlike Himself. So this chapter leads logically to its radical conclusion: "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."

Our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, resolves the contradiction between this view and the Adam chronicle of a good-and-evil creation by showing that the latter is an allegory—quite a useful one if viewed rightly as the obverse or counterfeit side of the spiritual reality pointed up in Genesis 1 and the first three verses of Genesis 2. By studying this account, though never accepting it as other than fiction, one can see the fatal results of believing in a mortally material creator and creation.

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