About 20,000 years ago, humans trekked along the margins of a shallow lake in Australia. Who was their God?

Question

See the following article: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14063446/

Needless to say, if the scientifically calculated timeline of the existence of these humans is correct, then the traditional Biblical timeline for human introduction to the earth is wrong. They definitely pre-date Adam and Eve. So what god created them? Were they descendents of the family of Adam, or are they a completely different branch of humanity?

Now PLEASE try to defer to the question itself (don't throw theological argument at the question), and answer it based upon the presumption that it is true. If the footprints truly represent humans from the Pleistocene period, who was their god? Did they have a god?

Hmmm, Revelator and others ..... Remember, answer the question. Try expanding the thought process. Oh, and READ the article upon which the question is based. REVELATOR, can you see ANYTHING about carbon dating in the article? NO???? Why don't you move on? Oh yeah! Ha! YOU never got here in the first place did you? Please people, answer the question.

Answer 1

It was probably Animism. Look it up. It's what the Native (Aboriginal) Americans had as a god.

Answer 2

The bible can't be taken literally. They probably worshipped some god just like people do today. People look to gods to explain things that they don't truly understand. And if there really is a god, then the same one probably created these people and Adam and Eve.

Jimmy Pete, the Earth is more than 6 or 7 thousand years old. There are scientific estimates that say it's about 4 billion years old. If it's only a few thousand years old, then God must have taken a lot of time to create fake fossils, remains, astronomical evidence, etc.

Shell, 40 people can make a lot of mistakes. That's a small number. (Have you ever heard of congress? It consists of more than 40 people and thay make mistakes all the time.) There have been many more than 40 scientists who have found evidence that the Earth is billions of years old. Plus, there is so much proof that things existed 20,000 years ago that it's not even funny. One failed experiment does not mean a thing. You do not understand the concepts of science very well.

Answer 3

Thanks, an interesting site/info. Yes, they must have had a God, even if they didn't think they did or even know or wonder of such, because they existed, and that cannot have happened by mere chance, considering the complexity of the human race and its habitat. Maybe they were a different or earlier branch of humanity, but they died out like the Neanderthals (if indeed the Neanderthals did exist.) You reject theological argument, but your question clearly indicates that you believe about Adam and Eve being the beginning of humanity. Well, then perhaps the "20,000 years ago humans" were not humans at all, only similar, perhaps like the Neanderthal. But if they were humans that we are descended from, then their God was the same as ours, and the Adam and Eve "story" is just that, a story that teaches a lesson. If evolution is real, and it can be seen everywhere, then Eden et al is an ideal rather than an actual place, as supported by the historical findings related to evolution and the appearance of hominids presumed to be the precursers of humankind.

Answer 4

If I get you right, then I think that you want an answer in the context of the question, not something about geological history or evolutionary theory.

Australia is east of Eden, and Eden is the easternmost extreme of the earth. Thus, Australia is not a part of the earth, so it needn't be created at the same time. So, what existed before the earth did? Humans clearly originate on Earth. What is there there that exists beyond or before earth? There are the angels, and there is God.

Answer 5

You're basing your information on dating system that is proven faulty by science and anybody that was of age enough to remember anything from the '80s would remember the huge news flash about it. Move on. Carbon was believed to be a stable enough element to date the age of things because it's in everything. What science discovered in the '80s was that carbon isn't as stable as they thought. When they figured the correct rate of decomposition of carbon with the new information, the ages of all of these ancient things ended up being less than 10,000 years old.

Answer 6

How would you know that they believed in a god, we can only guess. Most likely, they did, since primitive man had no way of knowing about the universe around them.

It reminds me of the movie "the Gods Must Be Crazy." A native in the Kalahari Desert encounters technology for the first time--in the shape of a Coke bottle. I found this to be very amusing, but I also began to see parallels between his thought process, and that of the modern day Theist.

Both are using CAVEMAN LOGIC to explain their world. I fail to see the difference between “hmm, bottle fall from sky, must be gods” and “hmm, trees and butterflies prove the existence of god.”

In both of these cases, someone is simply replacing one unknown for another unknown, but proving nothing!

There's no reason to think that cave men from any era would think differently.

Even today, I would have thought that as man became more knowledgeable and logical that he would have pushed aside his caveman beliefs, but it seems to be just the opposite....for afterall, 80% of the earth's population still believe in god(s), angels and things that go bump in the night.

Answer 7

Non believer, and I would say they that they either did not believe in a deity yet or had their own "beliefs" made up to try to understand things they could never understand. I saw that article earlier on another site that provided a few more pictures. Especially like the shot of the fossilized line of footprints.
http://www.livescience.com/history/060726_pleistocene_footprints.html

Answer 8

I remember reading an article that told they found this million year old thing and later discovered it was nothing but a heal from a shoe that had been crushed by rock.
Scientist make mistakes. where you there 20,000 years ago to testifty to its existance.
40 men where used to write the bible and they testified to its accuracy. they were there and lived it.
Scientists once said man will never fly.

Answer 9

It's pretty obvious that today's religions are much younger than the human race (and even written history), while animism appears to be much older.  It's possible that the first aboriginal Australians had nothing that monotheists would recognize as a god-figure.

Of course, this can't be known for certain; they left nothing written, and we can't go ask them.

Answer 10

I don't think so! The earth is only around 6 to 7 thousand years old!