For all you christians...the typical adam and eve question.?

Question

If "God" made the world in 7 days or whatever and Adam and Eve were the first beings then why is there evidence of millions of years of life (dinosaurs, sharks, frogs, and so on...) before humans?

BTW... I had some comments on putting ""around the word god and it being disrespectful. I dont feel it is at all disrespectful because I am agnostic. So, sorry if I offend anyone.

you people are so funny.

Answer 1

I've written two articles that deal, respectfully, with the Adam and Eve story and young Earth vs. old Earth debate (includes explanation about the dinosaurs).

Rather than make this an extremely long answer, I would rather invite you to read the articles by clinking on the links.

The Origins of Man
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=90280440&blogID=142791154

The debate over old Earth vs young Earth
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=90280440&blogID=146579581

Even if you don't believe the Bible, I think you'll find the articles informative and enlightening.

Answer 2

God did it in six days (24 hours each).
Plants were one day, animals another. If those days were billions of years, how did plants survive that long without animals?
Some of the stuff we dig up today doesn't look like it's only 6,000 years old for a couple reasons. One is the fact that from Adam until Noah, the atmosphere was very different than it is today. That caused things (people, plants, animals) to grow differently, age differently and heal differently than what we observe today. Another reason is the guesswork involved in trying to put an age on things. Carbon dating, as stated by others is a very inexact method of placing a date on things. There have been cats (with collars intact) and cowboys (still wearing their boots) carbon dated as millions of years old.

The oldest living tree is only about 5,000 years, the oldest desert is only about 8,000 years and there's only about 6,000 years of space dust on the moon.

Lastly, knowing that God could make a man (Adam) already aged - why couldn't He make a world that showed some signs of age?

Answer 3

Why do they keep finding human foot prints alongside dinosaur prints? (This is something they don't like to mention)
Millions of years has not been proven. They had to make assumptions that there were millions of years for their carbon dating to read as being that old. Take a living snail shell which is excreted as it grows. If carbon dated it reads as millions of years old. Try to get a satisfactory answer for that one. Actually dinosaurs and frogs were on the earth a full day before man arrived. Sharks were two days.
Dinosaurs are in evidence up until modern times. Check in a dictionary from as early as the 1800's and look under the term Dragon. You will find that it very closely resembles our definition for dinosaur. It doesn't mention fire, and it doesn't mention wings. It also calls them rare creatures not extinct millions of years ago. The Bible mentions dinosaurs. Job refers to both the behemoth with a tail the size of a tree, and the Leviathan both of which are good descriptions for differing dinosaurs.
Have them prove that carbon dating works without assumptions and that will answer your questions.
They have found evidence of large land bound dinosaurs in the deep jungle in Africa as late as the 1930's or 40's.

Answer 4

Phew ... I thought you were going to ask where Adam and Eve's sons got their wives. THAT'S a typical question here, LOL!

God made the world in 6 days; on the 7th day, He rested. The Hebrew word translated as "day" does not necessarily mean a 24-hour day; it mearly means a measurable amount of time that equates to God's idea of a day. In human terms, this could mean 1 million years. We just don't know. But when a person places the word "day" into its proper context, we can see why geologists tell us the world is millions of years old.

When you consider the progression of life, you'll see that God created plants and animals before He created Adam and Eve. This would explain why we know life pre-existed them.

Answer 5

In my personal view, it's because God made all the animals first, then created Adam and Eve.
Secondly, it's because I don't really know how long God's day is. I tend to think that God's days are actuallyAeons, if not millenia.
If God's days are so long, that could be anywhere from 1 billion or more years ago, to as little as six thousand years.

I believe in the former, because of the geological record and fossil record, it is enough to know that God created the heavens and earth, not when he created them.

Answer 6

Adam and eve wern;t the first beings, i'd get your facts straigtened out before posting question like these. I belive that days in god's eyes are not quite as short as days here on earth, so 1 day could have been 1 million years for us.

Answer 7

Well just because you have found things and a sceintists holds it up and says this is 10 million years old. they have found things that are less then 50 years old that carbon dating said was 12 million years old, they found out the the oldest tree that has been recorded is below 5000 years old. it does not take millions of years for something to turn into petrified rock, or to be fossilized they found a skull that they said was a over a hundred million years old then in later years was found out to be only like 20 years.

Answer 8

It says that Adam named all of the animals. The truth is that Adam and Eve were here when all of those animals were here. They lived peacfully together, because there wasn't any sin in the world. No animals ate meat at this time, but when Adam sinned, animals and man were forced to get food on their own. God took his hand off of them and now it was a new way of living, you had to work for you food.

Answer 9

You must remember that the Bible was written thousands of years ago. The people of that age did not have the technology and scientific theories we have today. When early people saw fossils, they had no way of knowing whether the creature had died yesterday or millions of years ago. We know today that there were plants and animals millions of years ago using radioactive decay data. I myself am a Christian, but I am willing to admit parts of the Bible are incorrect.

Answer 10

"seven days" doesn't mean that it was necessarily seven days, because the Bible says that one second can be a million years for God, and visa versa. besides, Adam was God's sixth creation. Remember that evolution is not true, scientists are not always right. I think that all the dinosaurs and so on were alive with humans but they became extinct and died.