RE: [asa] Advice for conversing with YECs (brain miracles)

Larry said:
" Making Man of "dust from the ground" can be taken
as being that Adam's material body was taken from the material body of an existing Hominid. This also calls for a cerebral miracle worked on Adam's brain."

The only reason for not taking the most plain literal interpretation is because you were confronted by science and accepted it. Note that without that, there is no need to go non-literal. Therefore, modern science is the key at accepting any alternative to a literal interpretation.

Also note that your brain miracle must have affected the genes, so descendents can also have the new brain. What about the other humans who did not get the new gene because they are not descendents?

...Bernie

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On Behalf Of Lawrence Johnston
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 9:46 AM
To: ASA; Lawrence Johnston
Subject: RE: [asa] Advice for conversing with YECs

Hi, all -

I think it can be helpful to look at what human remains the
paleontolagists have dug up.

When writing up a bible-and-science piece awhile back, I decided to get
information from the view of an Anthropologist on our campus. I asked
him whether Anthropologists used the term "Neolithic Revolution" and he
said they certainly did, and it was a big revolution, the advent of
agriculture and animal husbandry among humans. It was accompanied by
great innovations in making stone tools. I asked him when this
revolution happened, and he said about 8 thousand years ago. Also he
said that skeletons resembling those of modern humans came along about
100,000 years ago. Neanderthals started about 20,000 years ago, and
recently went extinct.

So I think it is a good conjecture that the Neolithic Revolution was
when Adam came along, and was thrown out of the garden, and he had to
work for a living. Making Man of "dust from the ground" can be taken
as being that Adam's material body was taken from the material body of
an existing Hominid. This also calls for a cerebral miracle worked on
Adam's brain.

 I call this paradigm "Old Earth, Young Adam".

Blessings,

Larry Johnston

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