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I am just finishing up Francis Collins book, The Language of God. I enjoyed reading a book by a respected scientist regarding evolution and Christianity.
 

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OK then, your not prepared. I'm hardly going to do your leg work by reading stacks of magazines, I've done my own thank you.

Being prepared is a biblical principle 1 Peter 3:15

Maybe latter you can find what it is your referring to in this post.
Uh, if you want to know what archaeology says about the length of time that humans have been on the Earth, then you ask archaeologists about it. That is why I made reference to archaeology periodicals. Of course, I could also make reference to Encyclopedia Britannica.

According to all of the archaeological literature that I have read, humans have been on the Earth for much longer than 10,000 years.
 

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Dodo_David said:
Uh, if you want to know what archaeology says about the length of time that humans have been on the Earth, then you ask archaeologists about it. That is why I made reference to archaeology periodicals. Of course, I could also make reference to Encyclopedia Britannica.

According to all of the archaeological literature that I have read, humans have been on the Earth for much longer than 10,000 years.
I know what they believe and teach we were talking about the amount of evidence, remember that talking point?
 

Dodo_David

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I know what they believe and teach we were talking about the amount of evidence, remember that talking point?
Yet, you have not provided evidence that archaeologists are wrong about the length of time that humans have been on Earth.
 

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Dodo_David said:
Yet, you have not provided evidence that archaeologists are wrong about the length of time that humans have been on Earth.
What I said was their evidence is sparse, as in very little.

Were just wasting band width and server space, your changing or trying to imply something I didn't say is just not working.

So have the last word and good bye
 

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Cain killed Abel.
As punishment, Cain was forced to live with other people.
What people?
Either Adam and Eve had alot more children than the Bible states or there were other species of human beings around. Were these the Neanderthals or some other species that we don't know about?
If Adam and Eve were the first homo sapiens (MY conjecture), while other species of humans roamed the Earth, like the history books tell us, then that would be BIBLICAL PROOF that the idea that God created the universe in 6 literal days is wrong.
Of course, you can always claim that the story of Adam and Eve is just a story. I don't but some of you might.

Who were these other people?

Since God says He tells us the end from the beginning then just as there was the chosen of God whom God created being Adam Spirit filled and ALIVE, there were also the believing nations just as their will be in the end in new earth to come. We are being restored to be a spiritual perfect man in Christ just as Adam was in the beginning before he died to the Spirit due to disobedience.

Isa 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
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Rev 21:22-24
22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
KJV

Jerusalem is and always will be the capital of the earth. She is the birth place of all the children of God, yet not all are chosen to inherit the kingdom of God as in kings and priests of God who rule in righteousness & keep the Word Alive in the earth. So the MEEK shall inherit the earth outside of the Bride.
The Elect shall rule and reign with Christ for 1,000 yrs in the millennium, this is the first resurrection. And after the 1,000 yrs comes the GWT Judgment where all come back to life and go to their CHOSEN destination decided according to their actions in this life. Some will be the MEEK saved nations.. others will go into the lake of fire.
And might I add:
2 Peter 3:5-8
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
KJV
 

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aspen2 said:
I think they were Lilith's children - first wife of Adam. I am kidding of course, but at least I am referencing ancient Jewish apocrypha rather than making up stuff like satan sleeping with eve.
LOL! Very cheeky indeed. :D
 

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John S said:
The dinosaurs lived MANY tens and hundreds of millions of years BEFORE man.



The "Mona Lisa" wasn't painted by itself. It took an artist. The same thing happened with evolution. It was God's "painting" which took many millions of years.
Do some research on fossilized human footprints found within dinosaur footprints, both dated at the same time. They've been found in the American west and in Europe.

Science dates the time of the dinosaurs back to around 65 milliion years ago, at the time the fossil record shows some cataclysmic event where all life was destroyed. There is a gap in the fossil record which separates the time of extinct prehistoric species from later species after life sprung up again. One can visit places like Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis, Wyoming and see a variety of extinct dinosaur species.

That is not evidence that man has made up, it is evidence which our Heavenly Father left us.

The gap in the fossil record coincides with the unknown gap of time between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2, and the destruction God brought upon the ancient earth per Jeremiah 4:23-28.
John S said:
DD - Thank You. I was beginning to think that I was the only one on this site who didn't believe that 6000 year nonsense.
I can agree that the history of human civilization is 6000 years, with the founding of Ur around 4000 B.C. but Adam wasn't around then - and neither were the dinosaurs.


TVOT - Since I'm not Mormon, I have absolutely no idea what the heck you are talking about.
Who are the Lamanites? At no time have I even mentioned Noah's Ark.
I can agree with you that Neanderthal Man MAY have been around during the time of Adam. That MAY have been who Cain went to live with or he went to live with his children - but I don't understand why he wouldn't have been living with them to begin with.
I sincerely doubt that Adam and Eve were white because they didn't live in the northern climates.
Per the Hebrew manuscripts of Gen.1:26-27, God created 'mankind' (i.e., many peoples), AND... a specific Adam that He placed in His Garden to till the soil, BOTH on His 6th day. There's a distinction between 'aadam' with no Hebrew article and particle vs. 'eth ha aadam' with the article and particle. It's the difference between 'mankind' in general vs. a specific man.

There is NO evidence for climate effects creating the races. When the American Indians crossed the Bering Straight into North America, they lived in northern areas in stages and over many years slowly migrated southward. Yet their features did not become White, just as the features of remnants of them (like Eskimos) did not change either. The idea that climate formed the races is evolutionary hype.

The Neanderthal man was a hoax --

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/feb/19/science.sciencenews
 

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6000 years is actually a very long time .... plenty could happen in that amount of time

If we humans even try to consider how long a million years is ...... we cannot even comprehend it ..... let alone a hundred million years .... or 43 billion years.

There is no reason everything could not have happened in 6000 years ....

It was the atheist evolutionists who came up with the millions of years scenario .... it was the only way they could make things work without a creator.
 

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"There is no reason why everything could not have happened in 6000 years" - except it didn't.

Day 5 - God created the animals like the dinosaurs, which was followed by their extinction and then the rise of the mammals.
Day 6 - God created Adam and Eve and the rest of mankind.
Day 7 - Still to come.

I would rather believe evolution, with God as the artist, then this non-factual 6000 year stuff, which has absolutely no basis in history, archeology, or anythng else.
 

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Do some research on fossilized human footprints found within dinosaur footprints, both dated at the same time. They've been found in the American west and in Europe.
The late Dr. Walter Martin was an expert in Christian apologetics, and his radio program was quite popular among American Christians. One day on his radio program, Dr. Martin admitted that those alleged "human" tracks next to dinosaur tracks were not human at all.
 
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John S said:
"There is no reason why everything could not have happened in 6000 years" - except it didn't.

Day 5 - God created the animals like the dinosaurs, which was followed by their extinction and then the rise of the mammals.
Day 6 - God created Adam and Eve and the rest of mankind.
Day 7 - Still to come.

I would rather believe evolution, with God as the artist, then this non-factual 6000 year stuff, which has absolutely no basis in history, archeology, or anythng else.

Where's the evidence for the extinction of dinosaurs on God's 5th day? It is not there in His Word, although His Word does cover about their extinction, just not on the 5th day, but much earlier than the 5th day, like even before... the 1st day.

Dodo_David said:
The late Dr. Walter Martin was an expert in Christian apologetics, and his radio program was quite popular among American Christians. One day on his radio program, Dr. Martin admitted that those alleged "human" tracks next to dinosaur tracks were not human at all.
That's very LAUGHABLE!

Nice try though...

Even secular science does not want to believe in the existence of those perfect human arch footprints dated at the same... time as fossilized dinosaur footprints about 65 million years ago. Yet even secular scientists have been forced to admit they exist. They recognize their existence, and their dating with dinosaurs, they simply just choose NOT to heed it, just like you.

People like that will always exist. You can put a piece of dung in their hand, and they'll smell of it and say it smells like dung, feel of it and say it feels like dung, but then turn right around and say it's not dung.
 

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TVOT - Since I'm not Mormon, I have absolutely no idea what the heck you are talking about.
Who are the Lamanites? At no time have I even mentioned Noah's Ark.
I can agree with you that Neanderthal Man MAY have been around during the time of Adam. That MAY have been who Cain went to live with or he went to live with his children - but I don't understand why he wouldn't have been living with them to begin with.
I sincerely doubt that Adam and Eve were white because they didn't live in the northern climates.
Since you are an American Christian, you should have at least a cursory knowledge of what the LDS believes so as to counter the deception. I'll give you a crash course because it pertains to my racial heritage. In the Book of Mormon, there were 2 lost tribes of Israel that came to America by ship. The righteous Nephites descended from Nephi who was a character much like Joseph, specially chosen by God and despised by his brothers. War broke out between the Nephites and the wicked Lamanites. God "cursed the (Lamanites) with blackness of skin" so that the "fair skinned children of God" could be distinguished from the wicked by their very skin color. It's their belief that American Indians descended from the cursed Lamanites.

I try not to take offense.

But I brought up the flood to introduce a problem for the Christian Identity movement that claims a superior Adamic race. In order for their theory to be airtight, Noah and his sons would have to be white, and the flood wiped out all those in the region, but didn't wipe out all of mankind which explains why there are still colored people.

And yes, Adam and Eve were white because it takes generations of being exposed to harsh sunlight to develop a protective layer of melanin. Melanin toning is regressive mutation, but it's not how we started.

Now to the next question. Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?

John S said:
TVOT - Since I'm not Mormon, I have absolutely no idea what the heck you are talking about.
Who are the Lamanites? At no time have I even mentioned Noah's Ark.
I can agree with you that Neanderthal Man MAY have been around during the time of Adam. That MAY have been who Cain went to live with or he went to live with his children - but I don't understand why he wouldn't have been living with them to begin with.
I sincerely doubt that Adam and Eve were white because they didn't live in the northern climates.
Since you are an American Christian, you should have at least a cursory knowledge of what the LDS believes so as to counter the deception. I'll give you a crash course because it pertains to my racial heritage. In the Book of Mormon, there were 2 lost tribes of Israel that came to America by ship. The righteous Nephites descended from Nephi who was a character much like Joseph, specially chosen by God and despised by his brothers. War broke out between the Nephites and the wicked Lamanites. God "cursed the (Lamanites) with blackness of skin" so that the "fair skinned children of God" could be distinguished from the wicked by their very skin color. It's their belief that American Indians descended from the cursed Lamanites.

I try not to take offense.

But I brought up the flood to introduce a problem for the Christian Identity movement that claims a superior Adamic race. In order for their theory to be airtight, Noah and his sons would have to be white, and the flood wiped out all those in the region, but didn't wipe out all of mankind which explains why there are still colored people.

And yes, Adam and Eve were white because it takes generations of being exposed to harsh sunlight to develop a protective layer of melanin. Melanin toning is regressive mutation, but it's not how man started.

Now to the next question. Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?
 

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John S said:
So the dinosaurs became extinct BEFORE God created the universe.

Now THAT is laughable.

That would... be laughable if it were true. Problem is, the days past Gen.1:2 are about a restoration of the earth, not original creation. The original creation was back at Genesis 1:1, just like that verse says...

Gen 1:1
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
(KJV)



Thing is, no one really knows just how far back that "beginning" really was.
 

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TVOT - If people believe that nonsense, then I feel sorry for them. As I said, I doubt that Adam and Eve were white.
I would be more inclined to believe that their bodies were filled entirely with hair than to believe that they were white.
I also don't subscribe to any notions of racial superiority by one color or another. Why should I? - God doesn't.


veteran - So you're saying that many millions of years occurred between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2?
Who teaches such stuff?
 

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Where's the evidence for the extinction of dinosaurs on God's 5th day? It is not there in His Word, although His Word does cover about their extinction, just not on the 5th day, but much earlier than the 5th day, like even before... the 1st day.


That's very LAUGHABLE!

Nice try though...

Even secular science does not want to believe in the existence of those perfect human arch footprints dated at the same... time as fossilized dinosaur footprints about 65 million years ago. Yet even secular scientists have been forced to admit they exist. They recognize their existence, and their dating with dinosaurs, they simply just choose NOT to heed it, just like you.

People like that will always exist. You can put a piece of dung in their hand, and they'll smell of it and say it smells like dung, feel of it and say it feels like dung, but then turn right around and say it's not dung.
So, you are admitting that humans have been on Earth for much longer than 10,000 years, since the dinosaurs became extinct more than 50 million years ago.
 

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veteran said:
Per the Hebrew manuscripts of Gen.1:26-27, God created 'mankind' (i.e., many peoples), AND... a specific Adam that He placed in His Garden to till the soil, BOTH on His 6th day. There's a distinction between 'aadam' with no Hebrew article and particle vs. 'eth ha aadam' with the article and particle. It's the difference between 'mankind' in general vs. a specific man.
What Hebrew manuscripts are you referring to exactly?
 

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What Hebrew manuscripts are you referring to exactly?
The bible

What he's saying is in Gen 1:27 God created all the different races, then later he created Adam and Eve, end result = Adams race though Seth ect is saved; the humans from Gen 1:27 are not. In the mean time they mixed there genes Gen 6:2 ect, the end result being God preserving the supreme race through Noah and Abraham.......... Heil Hitler.
 

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Here is what everybody fails to consider ....... how did they (geologists & archeologists) come up with their dating process in the first place ???

You will find they pretty much made it up as they went along ... counting layers and assigning an age to them however they saw fit

In another place I mentioned ice core samples scientists measured at 18,000 years turned out to be only 50 years actual

Too many people just assume the scientists have an accurate method to determine age ..... they do not .... and never have ..... I have old science books that date things in the thousands of years .... and in modern science books those same things are now said to be millions of years old.

It is not wrong to question science. They go on a lot of assumptions .... and assumptions are not the same as factual evidence.