This would indicate there were humans alive a million years ago. Does this contradict the Bible?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070702/ts_afp/spainhistoryscience_070629192238
2007-07-02 07:59:02 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How does this contradict the Adam & Eve story. Or is this story figurative, not literal?
2007-07-02 08:03:06 · update #1
"Again, no, because dating has been proven to have some problems in it.
"I mean, according to Y!A,"
Oh, that's a highly authoritative source. You need to get out from behind your keyboard and really learn something.
2007-07-02 08:10:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hi,
One Hot Mama is right on the money with her response! No where in scripture does it say the Earth is only 6K old. In fact it states otherwise. God said that in the beginning he created the Heavens and the Earth, and that was a extremely long time ago. What some Christians claim is, is the Earth must be 6K old because that's how much time they can account for since Adam was created, and therefore the Earth must only be 6K old. That's not an accurate way of looking at what was recorded in Genesis 1 and 2. God created a perfect Earth a very long time ago, but that Earth was destroyed. Bible scholars believe this was at the original rebellion of Satan. You can read that in the Book of Isiah. It explains how the Earth was laid waste, and absolutly no life was left at all. This wasn't Noah's flood either. This was a total and complete destruction, and zero life was left. The Book of Genisis explains how God recreated the Earth because it was made void and waste. This was a planetary rehab we are talking about here with all new species being created. There are a good many fossils indicating that man has been around a lot longer than 6K years too. Mankind was made before the Adam talked about in Genisis. There are two Adam's in the Book of Genisis. The Adam (Mankind) included all the races of humans. The second Adam (Ahadam) wich means ruddy complexion, is the Adam in the line of Jesus. This is the family line Jesus traced himself back to. You have to really stick your nose into the Bible to see this info, but it is there. Which means some hardcore studying.
2007-07-02 08:30:04 · answer #2 · answered by skiingstowe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maximum evolution theorists concur that the Pan-homo split occured around everywhere from a million.5 to 2.5 million years in the past. the 1st Homo species being popular as Homo Habilis the fossils being modern-day in Tanzania, East Africa. Homo Sapiens the main modern-day species of the Genus on the different hand are easily believed to have originated in Africa approximately 250,000 years in the past. The the tooth could maximum probable have belonged to a homo erectus an till now version of human beings which existed from 2million to 3 hundred,000 years in the past.
2016-11-07 23:22:08 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if you take the bible literally. Fundamentalists will tell you that it could only be 6,000 years old. Most intelligent people realize that the bible is a good metaphor but cannot, rationally, be taken word for word as the truth.
2007-07-02 08:04:13 · answer #4 · answered by diogenese_97 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the three key underlying assumptions are: 1] that the rate of decay of parent into daughter has remained constant throughout the unobservable past; 2] that the specimen which we are examining hasn’t been contaminated in any way [that is, no parent or daughter has been added or taken away at any point during the unobservable past], and 3] that we can determine how much parent and daughter were present at the beginning of the decay process
if any of these assumptions are wrong, the method can not accurately determine the age of a specimen (in this case tooth_
2007-07-02 08:02:19 · answer #5 · answered by Silver 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That human tooth found did not belong to Homo sapeins. The precise Homo species is not yet known. If hominids other than Homo Sapiens are considered earlier "animals," it is not a contradiction.
2007-07-02 08:11:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
That tooth looks more like a caveman's tooth.. I don't doubt God was smart enough to evolution to get through to us..
It doesn't contradict the Bible.
2007-07-02 08:01:45 · answer #7 · answered by ☆Bombastic☆ 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Again, no, because dating has been proven to have some problems in it.
I mean, according to Y!A, I've seen the earth dating between 1 billion and 8 billion years, highlighting these years in between. [sarcasm] I mean, if radiometric dating is accurate down to 7 billion years, that's pretty accurate, right? [/sarcasm]
2007-07-02 08:03:03 · answer #8 · answered by Mr. A 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lots of things contradict the Bible, such as Science, Geometry, Geology, Evolutionary Theory, Mathematics, etc etc.
Thats why NASA is now studying the Bible to see if we can send more manned space flights to the moon and back.....
2007-07-02 08:02:41 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Not at all, the bible does not specify time periods, and it says in genesis that each thing was created to it's own kind, meaning not evolution.
2007-07-02 08:04:03 · answer #10 · answered by happily married ( : 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋