RE: The wrong horse in evolution education

Hi Jack, you wrote:
 
Yes they are always very fuzzy about their dates.
 
The bottom line is that they do not equate human beings with the
appearance of the first anatomically modern homo sapiens. There is
nothing inherently wrong with that. But they want Adam to be early
enough to try to make him the predecessor of all human beings, and late
enough to fit the biblical evidence for when Adam existed.
 
And that is the problem, there is no model that is going to satisfy both
conditions.
 
That's absolutely the case. I discovered that about twenty years ago.
Ross has been sliding Adam around to try and find a happy medium where
none exists. He has to expand the genealogies to fit in extra unnamed
generations to drive him back into antiquity just so he can be ancestral
to everybody on earth. By pushing Adam back before the Neolithic none
of the things Genesis talks about, farming, raising livestock, tents,
musical instruments, articles of bronze and iron, can possibly be true.

 
Then there is the flood to reckon with. That has to be pushed back to
some time, someplace. Were the Sumerians writing about a flood that
happened thousands of years before they knew how to write?
 
Reminds me of the old Viet Nam quote, "In order to save the village we
had to destroy the village."
 
Dick Fischer
Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
 <http://www.genesisproclaimed.org> www.genesisproclaimed.org
 
Received on Fri Apr 14 23:30:25 2006