it doesnt matter what day adam and eve were created. I must say that it is frustrating when people cant answer a question so they beat around the bush, give a circular answer, or try to find a problem in the question so it looks like they know what thier talking about.
if adam and eve were created sometime around when the earth was, then that would be over 250 million years ago, and they would have to survive two known mass extinctions. If they were created less than 50 million years ago (after last mass extinction) then wouldnt we be further along than we are now. for instance cars, and computers, wouldnt we have somehow figured it out over the course of 50 million years, opposed to a couple thousand
2007-10-05 17:21:24 · 23 answers · asked by Fish&Rice 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
wow, fact doesnt matter, and the world is only 6000 years old. The second mass extinction is what killed the dinosaurs.
2007-10-05 17:30:00 · update #1
Disclaimer -I don't believe in the religious concept of Adam and Eve, but your question intrigues me logically.
First - You assume that Adam and Eve were as evolved as modern man. Nothing says that. Adam and Eve could have been early forms of humans with an IQ of 60. Nothing religious says evolution didn't take place after they were created.
And actually, religious text supports this in it's own roundabout way. Adam and Eve existed for an undetermined amount of time before they discovered the tree of knowledge (evolved higher intelligence), discovered modesty (uniquely human trait), and other characteristics indicative of humans (pain of childbirth, a human life span, a knowledge of mortality). Only a small stretch to fit the biblical story with a post-creation evolutionary timeline.
Second - Many creatures survived the mass extinctions. No reason early man couldn't. The reproduction rates of humans were suitable, and warm-blooded animals didn't fair badly in either extinction.
Third - There is ample evidence of technologies that were more advance than originally expected - plumbing in Egypt, transoceanic boat trips, amazing calendars. There were surely starts, stops, and reversals to technological advancement. There may be again. Technology has it's evolutionary path as well, complete with missteps and dead-ends. No saying how long it should take us to get here.
Last - I like the thought of a long human legacy. I wish I could believe it. The facts don't support it, but I'd dig having millions of grandparents in my lineage. The classic 6,000 year theory is based on all the generations listed in the begats and begots section. But this lineage takes place after Adam and Eve become mortal, and nothing tells of the timespan before that.
Pam - you may have a point, but it didn't say he gave them different names! He might have named all the animals "Animal". But I'll raise him another 10 IQ points as a show of good faith! lol with you
2007-10-05 17:36:00 · answer #1 · answered by freebird 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
If you read the bible you would know that Adam and Eve were created after the restoration of the earth. There is a gap between the first and second verses of Genesis. God made all things. Next verse, everything was void and without form. Why? Something happened between verse 1 and 2. The earth was destroyed before He made them. Adam and Eve date back 6000 or so years ago. The earth is a lot older. The stuff they are digging up pre-dates Adam and Eve.
And make no mistake, this is God's game. God says faith in Christ or hell is waiting. Funny how some of us get our proof via faith... others go to the grave void.
2007-10-05 17:47:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Gen 1:1, God created the heaven and the earth. In verse 2, the earth was void and without form and darkness was upon the face of the earth. Then God said "Let there be light". This was an act of restoration. He did not create the earth void and without form. Then God told Adam in verse 1:28 to "replenish" the earth. It has been 6000 years since this happened. Knowledge had increased because the Bible said that it would in the last days. Don't you think it's eery that from up until 100 years ago we were riding horses?
Freebird...the Bible says that Adam named ALL the animal. I believe his IQ was greater than 60..lol
sorry lol
2007-10-05 17:45:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your original question http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AuyHbIaBQJGc2kBrm9gAQS7sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071005204203AACsoJp&show=7#profile-info-PBZM1rHOaa asked, without any other context, chronology of a specific creation story Adam and Eve. This story comes from the Biblical book Genesis, in which there are two somewhat contradictory chronologies of creation, if taken literally.
Your current question now shows the context you chose not to reveal, and insists an acceptable answer to your previous question on a scriptural story fit into another context.
In debate contests, this wouldn't impress the judges. In academic discussions, or cocktail party chat, this would also fail to convince anyone to do anything but walk away...
:) Don't fault people for your own choices.
2007-10-05 17:33:30 · answer #4 · answered by SC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where in the bible did it say that Adam and Eve were created the same time as the earth? Oh, and by the way scientists are only men. Who can say without a shadow of a doubt that there calculations are right? Math equations only work because someone said that they do! You are taught math and algebra in school, because someone sat down one day and made up an equation!
2007-10-05 17:30:56 · answer #5 · answered by sassy.nurse 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't pretend to know the answer to this question, and even as a Christian, this is an intriguing question.
All I can say is...with our "sophisticated equipment" how can we really know how old the world is, or whether these extinctions really did occur?
And in the same breath...did Adam and Eve's descendants walk the same fields as the dinosaurs? And if so, how did they survive?
They're definitely 2 conflicting theories (science and Christianity)...so it does truly make it hard to know what to believe...KWIM?
2007-10-05 17:28:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the chronology of the Bible, man was created about 6,000 years ago. The earth may have been created many, many years before that, but was 'recreated' at the time of Adam & Eve. All you really need to understand your question is the knowledge that God is sovereign and can do whatever He wills to do. He also provided for us a sacrifice for our sins - His own Son, Jesus, whom He willingly gave over to death. We need only to trust Him by believing God and accepting by faith His offer of salvation. Start to read His Word, the Bible!
2007-10-05 17:33:05 · answer #7 · answered by Knobbie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They weren't created at the exact time the world was.
There were millions of years between verse one and two of the first chapter of Gensis.
Adam and Eve were created millions of years after the earth was created.
2007-10-05 17:32:19 · answer #8 · answered by mary 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Where do people get off thinking that the world id only 6000 years old?? Do they not believe in science? To say that the world is not 250 million years old is to say that the world is not round. Science has provent hat the earth is round and Christhians believe that part of science. But for some stupid reason they only believe the part of science that they want to believe. Get real!
2007-10-05 18:47:04 · answer #9 · answered by bushnana 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Part of the problem with your answers is the fact that to God a day is as a 1000 years and a 1000 years is as a day. One day to him may have been more longer that our days. And as far as we were along in technology, everything was destroyed in the flood and we had to start all over again.
2007-10-05 17:34:30 · answer #10 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋