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Posted by: Traxus 04
Sure, any one of those names could be insignificant when used in a story. But TAKEN TOGETHER they mean that The Bible is definitely being referenced. I didn't base any of it on the books, btw. The Garden of Eden part is from the terminals in Halo 3 (I haven't read the books personally). When I said spread out I meant from an initial place on Earth to the rest of the planet, not to the stars.
Basically in the Bible it says humanity began somewhere called the Garden of Eden, created by God, and then the descendants populated the reset of the world. In modern science, they believe that the first humans evolved somewhere on Earth (in Africa) about 100 000 years ago. In the Halo story, a Forerunner found Earth in the last days of the Flood war. She built a 'garden' there (which the terminals refer to as Eden), and was indexing the humans that lived on the planet, before they were all wiped out by the rings firing. THEN, and this was about 100 000 years ago, the planet was 're-seeded' with indexed humans, who were sent through the portal and left to flourish, starting from the Forerunner Garden. Don't you see how it all ties up? It doesn't just fit, it's the only logical conclusion, considering all the coinciding facts and references.
You could look at Star Wars and say it was a parallel for Christianity - like you have a guy with a religious name like Luke who uses something a bit like the Holy Spirit called The Force to save us from evil - but what Star Wars doesnt have is a bad guy called Darth Judas and a female character called Mary Magdeleine and a robot called Moses. You can make parallels to lots of other things too, like LOTR or Dune, with some degree of truth in them. But even there you don't have any direct references.
What Halo has is a religious title ('Halo') and a bunch of explicit connections to the Bible. Go figure. Actually, LoTR and Dune have bigger references to the Bible than anything in the Haloverse.
You should really try and know what you're saying before you say it. That would make your posts more of an argument and less of a "Yes it is teh bible because it has teh ark and floodz!!".
Sci-Fi is spattered with the Bible. It's all over the -blam!- place. The religious terminology in Halo that's attributed with the Flood and the Covenant is perfectly befitting of those respective plot-elements, and does, obviously, draw religious references. But is the story directly following the Bible? Nope. Is Bungie trying to refit Christianity for a new generation? Nope. You can tell that just by playing the games. It's a well-thought, fleshed-out universe crawling with references to 'Aliens', 'The Thing', previous Bungie games, countless other Sci-Fi sources, and, of course, The Holy Bible.