2006-06-16 03:26:13 · 54 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Excellent question. I take my hat off to you.
2006-06-16 03:35:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 10⤋
I find it kind of disturbing that people take the bible so literally. Do people really think they are part dust and clay? If we are dust at all, we are all star dust, maybe that is what god was talking about, not dirt and clay in an earthly sense. But that is all the men who wrote the bible had to work with thousands of years ago when they were oblivious to the cosmos. It shows how primitive people's beliefs were years before we had science, thank goodness, to explain to us our biology and get us out of the dark ages where ignorance and superstition reigned supreme.
What I want to know is: why do people still cling to the ignorant beliefs of primitive society when we have science which relies on a significant amount of proof and evidence to explain to us what we are made of and how our bodies work.
2006-06-16 03:43:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Somebody once calculated since humans appeared on earth 75 billion of us have lived and died. The present world population is over 6 billion, so if each one on average weighs 100 pounds, than that accounts for 600 billion pounds of dust and clay which is only a tiny fraction of the total mass of dust and clay available. A lot of dust and clay would still be left over.
2006-06-16 03:48:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He didn't make clay and dust so that he can make man, he made man from clay and dust of the ground. He in His infinite wisdom choose to do that rather than speak us into existence as the other things created including animals. And i don't think he used all the clay and dust to create Adam and Eve because we still have today.
2006-06-16 03:35:03 · answer #4 · answered by Damian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dust and clay are no good to make man.
Even if they were made by dust and clay, there is still some left so that more of us can be made.
2006-06-16 03:40:13 · answer #5 · answered by masku darling 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God only made Adam from the dust of the earth. Eve was created from Adam's rib. From there they just had intercourse w/ each other to reproduce and here we r.God did not make every man in the world w/ dust and clay then, though he probably could of, he made us w/ the necessary parts to reproduce.
2006-06-16 04:28:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because people keep dying and the dust and clay get put back. Don't you remember... "Remember man that you are dust and to dust you shall return."? Men are turned back to dust and women to clay.
See how that works?
2006-06-16 03:37:38 · answer #7 · answered by Bud 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He made man from dust, but not all dust is man!!!
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. Gen. 2:7
2006-06-16 03:31:50 · answer #8 · answered by gentlemanfarmer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God used only a little dust and clay to make Adam, if you take the Genesis account literally. I used flour and water and etc to make pancakes the other morning, and there is still flour in the pantry.
2006-06-16 03:30:06 · answer #9 · answered by OldGringo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there was no dust and clay there would be no life growing from the planet creating oxygen. Or at best, not as we know it today.
2006-06-16 03:37:03 · answer #10 · answered by bond_adambond 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because God didn't use all of the clay and dust but I have a question for you if man are a product of evolution then why I are you here...I thought evolution was all about survival of the fittest
2006-06-16 03:33:17 · answer #11 · answered by laura468 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋