If God created the Universe?

Question

Where did all the prehistoric humans come from?? I'm looking for a religious answer to this question, not an atheist one BTW.

Were prehistoric humans "prototypes" that God made?? Or maybe the evolution of the prehistoric human to the modern human was part of the seven days that God took to create Adam and Eve?? And seven days in Gods time was thousands of human years??

Answer 1

the perception of 7 days must be disgarded one day could have been a million or a billion years adam only came to pass 6000 years ago that were the human form of what we are today. prehistoric humans were the neanderthal.Maybe they had souls maybe they were animals ,maybe animals today have souls .I know i am in God as he is in me .I cant exist without him and i believe neither can he exist without me .If there is total nothing in me , then there must also be total nothing in him .I am because he is You are because i am .I am because you are .if any of you doesnt exist then nothing exist.You are all part of God .If you deny God then you deny yourself of being,and you cant ,because you are

Answer 2

some believe that adam and eve were also symbolic of man kind and woman kind and not just an individual, there is no specific date as to when exactly this came about so the prehistoric adam and eve could have been just that, prehistoric, back in the time when all types of creatures wondered the earth from the dinosaurs to the giants. and as far as the time frame, yes a day to God could have been thousands of years for time is a creation of human understanding based on the cycles of the earth moon and sun.

Answer 3

I'm not an atheist.

The prehistoric humans came from millions of years of evolution. Just because some humans can't understand that in the original language what has been translated as "day" in the Bible actually originally means "period of time" doesn't mean God has to do things to fit mankind's preconceived notions of how the world works, and certainly not on man's schedule FOR God.

Answer 4

To start with try billions of years. Everything there is seems to have had started from a seed. There have been trillions + planets and suns that have spent their life times before the earth and our sun used their materials to begin life here. And there will be many trillions more after the earth and sun are gone. But seeing as how everything is made of the same materials everything is really not much different than anything else. Many stars have come and gone the same as many species of life have come and gone on earth. Where religeons make their mistake is thinking everything was made for the pleasure of humans.

Answer 5

God created the earth and everything in the earth with an apparent age, Adam was created with the body of a young adult, he wasn't an infant that grew up, same goes for the animals, plants were created mature, not as seeds, and the earth was created with mountains, not as a flat earth that would someday develop mountains through plate tectonics.

In the same way, God created the earth to look as though it had been around for millions of years, with fossils etc, If God can create the universe He can certainly create a few fossiles.

Answer 6

I'm not a practicing Christian, but I'd like to take a crack at this...

I think it's perfectly fine to be a Christian and still believe in science. One should view the bible as a reference point for good living. Genesis should be seen as a poetic metaphor for the origin of the species. God is all powerful and it seems possible that he could have created a design for the entirety of the existence of the universe and set it all off with a single action (maybe a large explosion)... See creation stories as 'god inspired' attempts to explain existence. Not word for word accounts of history. Religion ought not focus on history, but on ethics and lifestyle. Historians can concern themselves with history.

Answer 7

When God made the world 6000 years ago he also planted allot of fossils for us to find and wonder about. In this way our faith is tested. Those of us who have kept faith will know that there were no dinosaurs and there were no pre-historic men because there is no pre-history. Only history as recorded in the Bible. Those who believe in cave men or dinosaurs or other imaginary things have proven their lack of faith and will suffer an eternity of torment.
I don’t believe this babble but some do and sadly they can’t be proven wrong.

Answer 8

Adam and Eve were not white. So with that established, we must realize that when mankind was created, it was likely that they were Prehistoric men. Plus, Genesis is FULL of metaphors.

Answer 9

The Earth was molten for a long time. One wonders:

A rotational period, slow, boiling one side of the Earth for months, maybe years of time.

Something happens, speeds up the rotation of the Earth, allowing life to develop, still very slow rotation. The first clear "Day and Night".

Just an idea to play with.

Answer 10

"Pre-historic" is not defined biblically. There are countless ways people have tried reconcile biblical creation with Darwinistic pre-history, and a popular one is the "how long were the days back then?" argument.

Adam and Eve did not leave any diaries for us to read, so who knows, they might have been 'cavemen.'