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Jon Paine
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Message 1 of 107 (407837)
06-28-2007 6:54 PM


Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...
It is asserted above that man was made in God's own image, but this begs the question, which of the many species of humankind was made in Genesis? Was it homo sapien, homo erectus, cro magnon, neadrathal, or perhaps "lucy"?
Modern humans have only been here since the last ice age, whereas the earth itself covers 4,550,000,000 years of geologic time. According to these sources below, the immense amount of time that passed prior to the explosion of life took place was about 4,000,000,000; life began at the beginning of the Phanerozoic Eon, about 570 million years ago.
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The Pleistocene is commonly known as "The Ice Age". The Holocene Epoch includes all recorded human history. These two Epochs span just the last 1.6 million years.
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The oldest human fossil found (named Lucy and found in Ethiopia) has been back dated to between 3 and 3.6 million years ago. Lucy was not a Homo Sapien, but we do know that she was a hominid, she walked upright. Chances are our species are direct descendants of Lucy's species.
The earliest Homo Sapien found to date is 200,000 years old but that's not to say a Homo Sapien could be found that dates back 400,000 years or longer!
The question put forth for discussion is, "Were Adam and Eve Homo Sapiens?
Reference websites provided below.
http://www.archaeologyinfo.com/species.htm
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/USGSNPS/gtime/gtime2.html
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Jon Paine
Member (Idle past 6075 days)
Posts: 65
From: Los Angeles, California
Joined: 05-24-2007


Message 5 of 107 (407987)
06-29-2007 4:43 PM
Reply to: Message 4 by Doddy
06-28-2007 8:38 PM


Which species was involved in the fall?
Personally, and this could just be because I had a debate on this issue yesterday, I would have rather talked about which species was involved in the fall, if indeed there was one. Maybe if this topic doesn't get anywhere, we could change topics and ask the admins to move this thread.
I like that idea. Perhaps Admin could just re-title it and move it to an appropriate forum whether or not it takes off here.
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