Letter to the Editor: Looking to the Book of Genesis for hubris source

I must take issue with Gerard Howlin when he attributes the surplus of hubris in the modern world to the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century and the following Age of Reason.

The hubris of which he complains comes directly from the Book of Genesis. To quote just two relevant passages: “Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”