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As the feud between religious science-deniers and atheist Genesis-bashers intensifies, an alternative origin story has been gaining significant traction worldwide. Here, the author and historian Carl Borgen examines the phenomenon that is The Bock Saga.
Science and religion are often cast as the only opponents in the battle for hearts and minds. The debate about whether they can co-exist has been raging since the dawn of mankind and continues to divide opinion to this day. But as the war of words rumbles on, an alternative creation story has been gaining headway outside of the media spotlight. Unlike its two opponents, science and religion, it has grown from a few dozen believers to more than one million worldwide without press coverage, hyperbole, or celebrity involvement.
It is called “The Bock Saga”, and is every bit as provocative as the Big Bang or the Book of Genesis. Incidentally, it is also the root of numerous Biblical stories.
For the uninitiated, the Saga is an epic creation story that challenges the mainstream scientific and religious views of human history. In over-simplified terms, it argues that humans existed on Earth 50million years ago—before an Ice Age—and originated in what is now Finland. It was here, in the land called “Odenma”, where the first societies emerged and laid the foundation of all later civilisations.
