The Bible is a futuristic fantasy novel Our planet is doomed, that much is certain.

This is not pessimism, but science. Our astronomers and scientists tell us that, through a variety of circumstances, our planet will eventually cease to sustain human life. Our Sun is slowly expanding and becoming more unstable as it ages. It may take billions of billions of years, but eventually the Sun will burn planet Earth and will then consume it, or in its unpredictable state of expansion, it could fire off a solar flare that would have a similar effect. Before the Sun fries us, however, several other threats stand ready to smite humanity on Earth: rogue asteroids, roving black holes, magnetic field reversal, ecosystem collapse and many other scenarios. The inevitability of such catastrophes leads many futurists to claim that in order to survive, humans must become space-faring colonists. Our first step will be to populate Mars, and from there to the next adaptable celestial body, and so on. Planet hoping will become the only realistic prospect for species survival. Given the difficulties posed by space exploration, it is likely our race will shrink dramatically in population each time we embark on a colonization quest. It is likely that the hopes of our species will eventually be placed in one final team of space travellers who are sent off into the galaxy as the last attempt to find a habitable environment, while the rest of us stay behind to perish. This team, the best and brightest of humanity, armed with the necessary elements of life and a great deal of our collective knowledge and history, will itself be subject to internal challenges which will whittle it down to just two remaining crew a man and a woman, chosen to captain the human race to a new start. Humanity will finally have its Adam and Eve, only at the end, not the start. If these two captains of our race manage to find a safe haven planet on which to make a new start, it will be a veritable Garden of Eden. They will breed and attempt to cultivate the environment, much in the way described in the opening chapters of the Bible. For centuries we have treated The Bible as a historical record, despite a mountain of scientific information that has shown it to be flawed (in matters of reality, not to mention matters of spirituality). Perhaps we have been viewing it from the wrong perspective. Rather than historic, The Bible is futuristic. It is a forward-thinking extrapolation of the likely outcome of our species. It is a story set billions of years in the future, at a point where two members are called upon to start over, and a prediction of how they will go about it. - Joel Alas