[I wrote:]
| >Glenn, I for one would grant you the possibility of those 3 million
| >years, but there is still the rest of the civilization bit in
| >Howard's post to consider. You have argued very convincingly that
| >the eight survivors of the flood would need very long time to
| >rebuild an advanced civilization. A similarly long time would have
| >to be added to your 3 million years.
[Glenn Morton replied:]
| The 3 million+ years IS the time needed to rebuild. I say that the
| only way to have any semblance of actual history in the Genesis
| account is to move the flood way back to 5.5 myr. I don't see the need
| to add more time for rebuilding than that.>
[Allan Harvey commented:]
| I think his point is that you need some number of years *before* the
| flood for humans to build up from the stone tool level to the
| technological level reported in Genesis. Maybe you wouldn't need 3
| million, but I think it would take some time for such a civilization
| to be built up starting with Adam and Eve in your scenario. So you'd
| have to push Adam back more than 5.5 myr, maybe not to 8.5 but to more
| than 5.51.
Yes, that was indeed my point, sorry for not being clearer.
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