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43 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Science review of cloning concept, February 3, 2006
This review is from: Nephilim: The First Human Clones--Why Their Existence Led to Noah's Flood (Hardcover)
Although I found this book interesting, thought provoking, and an easy read it does contain a serious flaw in its basic concept. The basic concept is cloning occured 5,000 ago in which two species created the Nephilim. From a scientific view cloning is a single species event and in fact a single creature event. As such, cloning is not the explanation of how the Nephilim came into existence as indicated in the book. At best, cross species breeding is the scientific description of what the author proposes occured 5,000 years ago.
Robert J. Fitzsimmons, Ph.D.
The Technical Basis LLC
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37 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Poorly written, Poorly researched, Totally disappointing, August 22, 2006
This review is from: Nephilim: The First Human Clones--Why Their Existence Led to Noah's Flood (Hardcover)
There are two major schools of thought regarding the weird events described in Genesis 6. The "Angel view" describes the rise of the mysterious Nephalim as the result of an unnatural and unholy cohabitation between fallen angels (b'nai Elohim, the "sons of God") and human women. This is the more ancient view and is widely accepted by conservative scholars. The other view, the "Sethite" view, says that the "sons of God" were the holy descendents of Seth, who were somehow forbidden to marry the "daughters of men," i.e., the daughters of Cain. This view is hard to defend by the Scriptures on several levels, but is and has been widely accepted among more liberal theologians for centuries.
Chucking both of these accepted interpretations in the ash can, Matthew Ajiake creates his own theory, based loosely on the "Sethite" view turned on its head. His proposal is that the Sethites were the bad guys ("daughters of men") and the descendants of Cain were the good guys ("the Sons of God"). His view is based on a supposed early curse of God, intended to run to the seventh generation upon the seed of Cain because of his murder of Abel. However, this curse, in the mean time, was somehow ineffective, thus rendering Cain's progeny unhindered and thus, somehow, Godlike, including the ability to fly and display an immunity to electromagnetic radiation. Right . . .
In another great and unsupported leap into the blue, the author then states that the Nephalim arose from the fact that Lamech (sixth in line from Cain) took two wives from the daughters of Seth in an attempt to somehow get around the supposed generational curse. Hmmm . . . No support, scriptural or otherwise, is offered for these flights of fancy. Then, his final thesis is that this mischief on the part of Lamech is somehow connected to modern efforts at human cloning. Stop the ride, Matt, I need to get off.
To say that Ajiake's scholarship is muddled is, at best, an understatement of the first order. I searched diligently through this book for some redeeming value, and have found only a general impression that the author seems to be a believer in Jesus.
I don't see much in this book that's outright blasphemy, but neither do I see anything truly helpful to the child of God or a curious seeker. The logic is twisted and extremely hard to follow, unsupported assumptions abound, the pages are littered with misleading and unclear diagrams, and the basic thesis of the book is just not developed very well. Sorry, Matthew, but I think one star is generous.
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49 of 58 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Utter rubbish!, September 15, 2005
This review is from: Nephilim: The First Human Clones--Why Their Existence Led to Noah's Flood (Hardcover)
Do not buy this book. Ajiake's theory is utter rubbish from end to end. On the plus side, Ajiake (correctly) eliminates the theory that the "Sons of God" mentioned in Genesis were descendents of Seth. However, he goes all wrong from there. Ajiake asserts that the "Sons of God" mentioned in Genesis were the descendents of Cain, whereas the "Daughters of Men" were the descendents of Seth. The descendents of Cain were physically superior to those of Seth, because Cain's lot were conceived only-just-after the Fall of Adam & Eve... and (according to Ajiake) that meant that Adam & Eve were still only gradually losing their pristine 'spirit' nature. Poor Seth, on the other hand, was born a full 130 years down the track and Adam and Eve were well and truly 100% mortal by then. So... why does God decide to favour Seth's totally mortal lot with a millennia-long plan of spiritual salvation (despite inheriting a 100% mortal sin nature) while condemning to obliteration the half-spirit pedigree of Cain...? Ajiake provides the answer: because Cain killed Abel - therefore, he was genetically evil and would've passed this on to his kids. Okay... this might hold some water (maybe...) - for Cain's direct bloodline - but if Adam & Eve had heaps of these born-before-A-&-E's-spirit-nature-had-completely-fizzled-out, does that mean that EVERY one of these Sons of God (Cainites) was necessarily wicked and evil? Every one of them?! And so what are we to think God is saying here; "Too bad you born-before-Seth-types - you're all scum and I've decided to wipe you out! NO, no... don't bother making sacrifices... you're all going to die!" And we're supposed to think God is fair - giving each human individual a straight chance?
Just to put the record straight - if angels can manifest as humans (with bodies that can eat and all... and they can) - then angels can breed with humans. Certainly "Fallen"/rebel/Satanic angels - the original 'B'nai Elohim' (Sons of God) would want to do that to pollute the plan of God to have this planet as the domain of 100% HUMANS.
After a thousand years of totally-hunk angels cross-breeding with human women, is it any wonder the pure human race was in danger of extinction?! Simple. God's answer? Wipe out the cross-breeds. Only Noah and his immediate family were 100% human and therefore 100% legal inheritors of the planet.
Ajiake can't accept this simple, traditional view, although Jude did, the Apostle Paul did, the writer of the book of Job did... Apparently, Ajiake thinks he knows better.
As for his use of the word "clone" - well... oh dear... !
He tries hard, twisting and convoluting Scripture all over the place in a tour-de-force of academic gymnastics but his argument gets ever more difficult and baffling and the final result is a hodge-podge half-baked intellectual disaster.
Save your money.
Instead, buy a good copy of the King James Bible (authorized version) and do some hard study working it out yourself!
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