Darwin would have something to say about that

Good evening, tonight I shall try and link the bible with science and still be here in the morning. It will I hope show where we are heading as a species.

We are in the strangest of times, half the world is approaching our current situation scientifically with expert lead responses, balanced against economies and lives. A great chunk of the world is allowing churches to meet, despite cancelling great public events and giving air time to ‘pastors’ to exorcise the demon that is this pandemic.

If you have seen or read the brilliant Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, you will recall as the four horsemen gather to ride to Armageddon; dear old Pestilence has taken early retirement and been replaced by Pollution. Well Agnes Nutter didn’t see this one coming, Pestilence is in the driving seat and Pollution has been relegated to the second division. Carbon emissions are down, I hope like me you are getting four weeks to a gallon of petrol or diesel. From space we can observe the clouds of pollution dissipating. A horrible thought for some of you……perhaps Extinction Rebellion are right!

To set the scene, earliest writing about 3200BC, earliest script 2600BC; earliest printing China 220 AD and it didn’t reach Europe until the fifteenth century. So if the world was created in 4004BC everything was by word of mouth until 2600BC and then it got a little embellished in the transcription.

So those biblical plagues and events were passed on by storytellers and one day someone had the patience to write it all down. Of course at the same time science was being born as others took note of what happened around them. And so we progressed up until one of my favourite, favourite people looked around him and laid it all bare. Charles Darwin. (I am still enthralled when I visit his house near to where we lived in Orpington in Kent)

I hope the pictures below will, using some biblical, some scientific basis, give you an understanding where we as a species are heading. Darwin did have something to say…

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” – Charles Darwin

Sodom and Gomorrah circa 3750 BC