These are the first individuals to have a living soul and a type of consciousness that bears a unique responsibility to and capacity to interact with God. They represent a sudden jump in creation, and if one takes the Book of Genesis literally, as many do, only they could have given rise to the modern worldwide species of homo Sapiens.
This creative jump not only separates modern Biblical man from all other animals, it separates him from all pre-existing homonids. Paleo-anthropologists tell us that human civilization began sometime between 8, and 16, B. This allows thousands of years for civilization to develop up to the point where Egyptian pyramids etc. In Genesis 4 and 5 we already have towns, agriculture, metallurgy and music.
These considerations would make pushing Adam back to , B. This is why many attempts to reconcile an exegesis of Genesis with reasonably well-founded information from history, linguistics, culture, anthropology, paleontology, archaeology, geology, physics and astronomy has been both difficult and controversial for students of the Bible.
Perhaps presently available information from all sources is inadequate to harmonize Genesis and anthropology at this time. At the same time, it seems plausible that the appearance of homo-Sapiens man was contemporary with the end of the ice age, the saber-toothed tiger and the giant mammoth. One might just as well also ask if all species of dinosaurs were brought on board, instead of going extinct about 65 million years ago. The position that all races of homo Sapiens that ever lived on earth were derived from Noah has a problem.
If there is good evidence for Indians being in America sometime between 8, and 13, B. Ramm, Also, in order to include Negroid and mongoloid races as descendents of Noah would require a great deal of stretching of the Genesis genealogies. Early chapters of Genesis seem to involve primarily Caucasoid races. These people seem to have migrated from Shinar in Mesopotamia to produce the Semetic family of nations including the Hebrews.
Ramm, Races among homo Sapiens would most likely have developed in a fashion similar to the way varieties develop within any other species of animals. Isolation of a common stock can eventually lead to a well-defined variety. Is there anything unreasonable about the assumption that what we know about genetics, combined with separation or selection over time, could have produced all human races that presently exist in the world?
Committed believers, who honestly seek Biblical truth, do, in fact embrace or argue in favor of differing interpretations of certain discrete portions of Scripture. If a Christian desires also to use the best evidence from anthropology, paleontology, astronomy, physics, or any other well-established field of science, why should he be criticized by other Christians for doing so?
In , a Turkish naval officer sent the Piri Reis map to the U. Navy Hydrographic Bureau. To evaluate it, M. Mallery, an authority on ancient maps, who had previously worked with him.
After a long study, Mallery discovered the projection method used. To check out the accuracy of the map, he made a grid and transferred the Piri Reis map onto a globe: the map was totally accurate.
He stated that the only way to draw a map of such accuracy was aerial surveying: but who, years ago, could have used airplanes to map the earth? The precision on determining the longitudinal coordinates, on the other hand, shows that to draw the map it was necessary to use the spheroid trigonometry, a process supposedly not known until the middle of the 18th century.
Not only did the early map makers know that the Earth was round, but they had knowledge of its true circumference to within 50 miles! Maybe we are wrong about early man? Since we have been underestimating the abilities of early man, is it possible that there were no cavemen as we think of them?
According to Genesis , Adam and Eve were initially naked. They could speak. After they sinned, they demonstrated that they had skills sufficient to make coverings of fig leaves Genesis They may have lived in caves, but that does not mean they were stupid and unskilled. The truth is we do not know what they did. That does not mean Adam carried a club and used it to hit Eve on the head. No one living today has knowledge of life in those days.
God made Adam and Eve along with all of the land, air, and sea animals. The great dinosaurs of the past really existed, lived, and most likely died when the great flood occurred. Adam and Eve might have lived in a cave. We do not know. But it does appear that they were probably very intelligent. In fact, God gave Adam the task of naming all the animals. All of this agrees with Genesis Unfortunately, they disobeyed God and sinned.
When they sinned, they caused us to become sinners who do not deserve to live with God. Therefore, Jesus Christ came 2, years ago and died in order to forgive our sins and proved that He was God by returning to life. Do you believe? Mike Wehner. Katrina Bridgeford. Jeremiah What does the Bible say about dinosaurs and cavemen? Bible Question: Where do the dinosaurs fit in and cavemen?
The Evidence For Dinosaurs It is important to note that God has said that men and women did not evolve from other animals. The Evidence For the Extinction of Dinosaurs Modern evolutionists say that dinosaurs became extinct because a comet hit the earth and created a dust storm which covered the earth and killed the dinosaurs. Genesis NASB From the passage in Genesis, it appears that once there was a canopy of water surrounding the world, creating a hot house effect upon the earth.
Whitcomb explains what happened next, After the flood, reptilian dinosaurs found themselves confined to a comparatively narrow belt near the equator; and thus in most cases became extinct during the subsequent centuries of struggle for existence against the more versatile and adaptable mammals. Conclusion: God made Adam and Eve along with all of the land, air, and sea animals.
References: 1. Hancock, Graham. Finger Prints of the Gods. Crown Trade Paperbacks, p. If so, why would it be sneaking around? To find out secrets about us or to discover if we are good or bad people? Another example might be a volcanic eruption. And why would they want to cause such destruction? These two very simplistic examples should help illustrate how these hard-wired mechanisms could lead to the beginnings of a belief in gods, as well as ghosts and other supernatural creatures.
Our ancestors would have drawn conclusions about supernatural occurrences by fitting together these instincts towards agency and the theory of mind. This even applies to the Abrahamic, all-knowing, all powerful god. He may seem very inhuman at first glance, but it has been shown that we reason about Him in a very human way. For example we depict Him helping one person before moving to the other side of the world to help someone else.
Hard-wired reasoning processes helps explain how religious ideas are so durable, spreading across continents and down through generations.
Both these and other ancient instincts appear to be in evidence from observations of children. Very young children seem to show very accurate understanding of physical laws.
For example they know that two solid objects cannot merge into one or that horses do not have metal gears inside them. Developmental psychologists have suggested that children are intuitive biologists, physicists and — using theory of mind — psychologists. Concepts which violate these intuitive understandings seem to be more memorable than others.
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