Origin by Dan Brown
The presentation of a finding that “will transform the face of science forever” will be announced at the cutting-edge Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, where Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, will be in attendance. Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire futurist known for his eye-catching high-tech creations and bold forecasts, will serve as the event’s host. Two decades after being one of Langdon’s first Harvard students, Kirsch is about to make an astounding discovery that will provide answers to two of the most important issues concerning human existence.
As the event gets started, Langdon and a large number of attendees are enthralled by a wholly unique presentation, which Langdon understands will be far more divisive than he ever expected.
Origin by Dan Brown
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However, the carefully planned evening abruptly devolves into pandemonium, and Kirsch’s priceless discovery teeters on the verge of being lost for good. Langdon feels threatened and is compelled to make a last-ditch effort to leave Bilbao. Ambra Vidal, the chic museum director who collaborated with Kirsch to put together the controversial event, is with him. Together, they make their way to Barcelona in search of a dangerous passcode that will reveal Kirsch’s secret.
Langdon and Vidal must avoid a tortured enemy whose all-knowing power seems to emanate from Spain’s Royal Palace itself. This enemy will stop at nothing to silence Edmond Kirsch. as they navigate the dim passageways of buried history and fanatical religion. Langdon and Vidal follow a path marked by contemporary art and mysterious symbols until they come to Kirsch’s startling discovery and the breathtaking truth that has long escaped us.
The book makes it very clear that there are only two options: either God created man in its entirety, hence excluding the possibility of a creator God, or Darwinian evolution is true. There is no conflict between Catholic theology and science, nor is there any assumption that Darwin’s theories rule out the existence of God. The creation myth in Genesis and most of the Old Testament are acknowledged by the Catholic Church (and its theology) to be genre fiction and not to be taken literally. The book’s central thesis is that once evolution and its corollaries—such as how the first DNA was produced in the early oceans—have been shown to be true, God can no longer exist.
The majority of Christians do not hold to this viewpoint, with the exception of many fundamentalist and evangelical Christians, and they do not literally interpret Genesis.
The key issue of evolution and the origin of the first living cells has been made the focal point of Brown’s entire story. Well, so what if a lightning strike caused specific molecules to coalesce into single-celled organisms, indicating that God did not transport Adam and Eve to the Garden of Eden on a chariot from the throne of heaven? Answers to further queries are required. Who created the seas? The earth? the nebulae? Who caused the Big Bang, and why? Brown seeks to confine the entire discussion over the existence of God to a topic that is not in a dispute inside Catholicism while giving huge shout-outs to New Atheists like Hawking, deGrasse Tyson, Dawkins, and others. The plot, which is presented as philosophical truth and assumes that conclusive evidence of evolution will lead to the abolition of all religions, is absurd—and it most certainly is not true.
