Wrap your brain around this.....?

Question

Scientifically we have been able to prove that plant and life forms existed millions of years ago. But how do you explain Adam and Eve? We are hitting Generation Z now which would make Adam and Eve Generation A. Logistically it is not possible for there to have been only 26 generations. I think I worked the approximate year to 1352 A.D. on the basis that every woman was 25 (give or take) when she gave birth to the next generation. (25 is a generous average). But we know for a fact that this is not possible ( according to the Bible) because this was 1,352 years after the death of Jesus Christ. Which would allow for 338 generation alone from the time of Jesus death. but we know that Jesus was born by Mary. So how many generations are there? Thought? Opinions? Or am I just ranting? I am looking for some real insight here. Anyone who can help would be greatly appreciated.

This is jsut some of the things that I like to think about when I get lost in my own brain. It is more like one of those questions that you find a hypothetical path and you are like "Hey! I wonder if...." Most of my thoughts are about this deep.

Yes I know that the Bible is literally "lost in translation" but I just wanted to see what every one else though.

Answer 1

I think your observation is excellent. Keep up the good work. Right now it's pretty much a theory, but tomorrow it maybe common knowledge. Flesh it out, do more research, look for flaws and answer the questions they raise. Never be afraid to look where no man has looked before. EXCELLENT! God is very pleased by your faith. It takes faith like that for mankind to move forward. Faith is when you step out into the unknown trusting that God will meet you there. When you pray ask God to show you the crux of the matter concerning (a. b.c. etc....) He is faithful to fill your cup. He will fill your cup with new understanding far beyond anything you can imagine. Even to the point you will have to ask Him to "please hold" while you digest. Good luck, Wow, what an awesome vision.

Answer 2

The Generation Z is just a made up concept, like I was generation X because my generation did not fit into the "baby boom" generation, etc. There is not a concept where people were just using the alphabet to count generations.

As far as the number of generations, there is alot of geneology that you can use in the Bible that takes you up to Jesus. The general estimate is aproximately 6-10 thousand years as the age of the earth.

The science that you use to prove that plant/life forms existed for millions of years is based on a belief in evolution and therefore interpretations of data to support that belief. The following website has a good article about how interpretations color the findings. They also have a lot of other good articles.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v22/i1/creation.asp

Answer 3

There's a lot of problems with the so-called scientific dating of plant and animal life. It seems from your question that you believe the Bible. The Bible says that God created the Heavens and the Earth, and all plant and animal life about 6,000 years ago. About 4,400 years ago, there was a big flood that made all the fossils.

Scientific dating is very inaccurate. Do you remember Mount Saint Helen, the volcano that erupted in Washington in 1980? Scientist went there 10 years later, and picked up rocks that were formed during the eruption, and sent them to various laboratories to be dated. The dates came back ranging from 10,000 years to over 3 billion years for rocks that were formed 10 years earlier.

You were taught when you went to scholl that the Grand Canyon had to have taken million of years to form by the erosion of the river through the rock. But if you look at Mt Saint Helen, it looks like a model of the Grand Canyon. It has two thousand foot cliffs, with rock layers just like the Grand Canyon, and a small river flowing through the bottom of it. Yet all this was done in seven minutes, not millions of years. If you look at the trees that were knocked down, they have already petrified, not taking the millions of years that we were taught in school it would take.

Ever wonder why fossils are found all over the world of long dead animals, but you don't see any new fossils being formed. That's because when an animal dies, it is eaten or it decays in a couple of weeks. But in Noah's flood, everything was killed, and quickly covered with silt, preserving the fossils. One thing that is found all over the world in fossil digs, man and dinosaurs living at the same time.

The world is not billions of years old, but was created by God 6,000 years ago.

Answer 4

Most scholars today (including Theology and Religious professors) do not take the story of Adam and Eve to be an accurate depiction of the beginning of man. It is believed to be a story passed down through oral traditions and recorded by Moses, and subsequently by many early monks. In the 1600s, King James commissioned a group of religious leaders to gather what they considered to be relevant and meaningful Judeo and Christian texts together, translate them into the English of the time (hence the "thees and thous"), and publish the works. This is how the modern day bible came into being. One of these recorded stories was the story of Adam and Eve.

So, it is not practical to take the time references found in the Book of Genesis literally. No learned people today believe that the Earth was created and populated entirely in a 6 day period.

Now, having said that...I am a Christian and believe the message of the Bible, both Old and New Testaments. It is the details of pre-history, which are stories and myths passed down and included in the pages of the Bible that I don't take as gospel. It doesn't make me an unbeliever, it makes me understand the people who put the book together.

Answer 5

interesting, interesting. Problem, do scientists call this generation Z, that is their issue, also, from the creation of Adam it has been 5767 years, roughly, that would land it at about 3761 b.c.e.
Also, the text does NOT say at any point in time that existence started ONLY 5767 years ago. In reality, Kabbalists, Jewish mystics, of 2000 years ago and longer, had already calculated the ae of the universe as being several billions of years old, and the earth as being several millions of years old. Also, no where does the HEBREW text, i don't care what christian texts say, no where does the HEBREW text claim that Adam was the first, he was simply the first TO BE NAMED.
Keep that in mind.

Answer 6

This might lead you to believe there aer over a 1000 generations.

Deuteronomy
7:9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

However, the Bible contains no text to indicate how many years a generation actually is. The word generation is used many times in the Bible to represent many thousands of people from a bloodline. So a generation in biblical terms could be hundreds of years, even thousands.

Answer 7

Personally, I'm not limeted by Bible stories in thinking about Science. Plants have been around for like 3.5 or 4 billion years I think. Fossils show it. Humans for 3 or 4 million, Lucy (not adam and eve). My calculations show something like 200,000 generations. Everybody was black till the last 1500 or so. Kind of cool to think about. Maybe you would like the book "Seven Daughters of Eve"

Answer 8

You're just ranting.

The only reason they're labelling this "Generation Z" is because of the Gen X'ers back in the eighties. Logically, the generation after X would be Y, and then Z. There was no Generation W, or any other letter prior to X. I'm a Gen-X'er myself.

Answer 9

Ok why do you think that each generation is represented by a letter? I mean it may be some system I dont know about, but I think generations would be put into numbers. It copuld actually be several thousands of generations ago when Adam and Eve lived. We dont know the exactt date when Humans became.... At least i dont.

Answer 10

Adam and Eve were not the first only the most persecuted in the beginning. After all wasn't Cain cast out of Eden and traveled to the land of Nod where he "knew" his wife. That means that there were people before Adam and Eve. Who created them? I think that since the Nodians were not involved with the first sin that they and their decendants were free from sin and are to this day.