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we should ahve known where we came from
Why? Without assuming the Bible to be true, why?
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the story of creation has been aorund the longest out of all ideas/views/theories
You know this how? Do you know what the first idea was some hundred thousand or million years ago? Do you even know WHEN the first idea was?
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those people "KNEW" where they came from for thousands of years
Yes, many cultures and peoples have 'known' where they came from. The various stories are not compatible and none have evidence.
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yet if you follow evolution - no one knows where or how
Look, you are basically arguing that we should have known about evoultion from the git-go. Since we didn't know about it then, it isn't true. I really can't take this argument seriously. We didn't know about Pluto until 1930, does this make it 'untrue' now?
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you say why did we not know about electro magnetism until just recently - to me that is because the earth is still relatively young (young compared to evolutionists views of millions of years old) and so those things were only recently found out with developments in technology
Of course it has to do with technological advance!!! What does that have to do with the age of the Earth? And shouldn't we have 'just known' about electromagnetism as we should have 'just known' about evolution?
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technology that can be used by everyone (i can use a telescope to see stars and planets - i cannot however underatke freely, without lots and lots of evolutionary based training, conduct experiments or make calculations to see how old the world is?!)
Not true. The technology is available, though it can be expensive, but you can't blame that on evolution. But for starters, watch a river flow and measure the rate at which it cuts through rock. Then extrapolate to find out how long it would have taken to cut its present channel. The math isn't teribly complicated and the equiment is cheap. Nor do you need 'evolutionary' training to calculate the age of the Earth. All you need is geology.
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the stories in the bible were passed down by word of mouth - a tradition used by many religions, many countries, etc etc - why have we therefore not heard any of these stories in order to wirte them down - why did we evolve voice boxes if not to use them?
What you are talking about is the passing of oral history over hundreds, not hundreds of thousands of years. I am sure that virtually all of our oldest records started as oral history. But passing such along for hundreds of thousands of years AND through the transition of our species from a previous one that may or may not have even been able to speak, is a different thing from passing along folk tales for 500 years.
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a myth is a made up story - a legend is a story that has truth to it - therefore it is more a legend than a myth
If you wish to insist on this definition of 'legend' and then insist that the Bible qualifies, please provide evidence for this grain of truth in the creation myth.
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i would request you to name other religious texts that talk about the first human - the ones i am aware of - the bible, torah and koran(spelling) all talk about adam as the first human on earth
That is because they are all based in the same tradition.
Encyclopedia Mythica
Pick a myth and read through. Here are some samples.
Africa:Abassi-- by Dr Anthony E. Smith
The creator god of the Efik (Nigeria), Abassi was instructed by his wife, Atai, to allow a human couple to settle on the Earth, but forbade them to procreate or work, for fear that they might excel Abassi in wisdom. For some time the humans observed this rule, but eventually they began to work and have children, for which Atai slew the man and his wife, and caused strife and discord between their children.
We see the first human couple on Earth.
or a Samoan creation tale...
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Aztec...
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And a whole slew...
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... like this one:
Boshongo
(Bantu tribe of Central Africa) In the beginning there was only darkness, water, and the great god Bumba. One day Bumba, in pain from a stomachache, vomited up the sun. The sun dried up some of the water, leaving land. Still in pain, Bumba vomited up the moon, the stars, and then some animals: the leopard, the crocodile, the turtle, and, finally, some men, one of whom, Yoko Lima was white like Bumba.
or...
Apache
In the beginning nothing existed -- no earth, no sky, no sun, no moon, only darkness was everywhere. Suddenly from the darkness emerged a thin disc, one side yellow and the other side white, appearing suspended in midair. Within the disc sat a small bearded man, Creator, the One Who Lives Above. As if waking from a long nap, he rubbed his eyes and face with both hands.
When he looked into the endless darkness, light appeared above. He looked down and it became a sea of light. To the east, he created yellow streaks of dawn. To the west, tints of many colors appeared everywhere. There were also clouds of different colors.
Creator wiped his sweating face and rubbed his hands together, thrusting them downward. Behold! A shining cloud upon which sat a little girl. "Stand up and tell me where are you going," said Creator. But she did not reply. He rubbed his eyes again and offered his right hand to the Girl-Without-Parents.
You get the idea.
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it came around a long time after ALL religions - why is it that the "truth" of the world only came around thousands of years after we "invented" god and religion
What does time have to do with being correct? Why do you think people in the past are more likely to have things right when, in fact, when that people in the past are more likely to be wrong about a lot of things-- like medicine, hygiene, various forms of technology.
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yet if we came from africa then why do very few/if any african people-the most likely people to be closest to apes-not actually know of this ancestoral past?
This is racist and idiotic. Sorry. ALL of us are descended from the same frighteningly small bunch of people in Africa. We are all equally related to other primates. Those who stayed in Africa, remained adapted to the climate. That's all. Those who left, adapted to other climates.
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im sorry - evolution is a "claim" - it is a theory - a claim-an idea-
I said nothing about evolution here. I said the Earth is older than 6k.
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historically the bible can be traced backs
No. Sorry. It can't be 'traced back.' Precious little in the Bible has any evidence to support it. Names and places are mentioned, but frequently scrambled and out of sync with other evidence. But there are threads for this topic.
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surely when we learnt to write we would have THEN recorded our evolutionary past - not another few thousand years after?
There you go again. We wouldn't have written it down once we learned to write because it had all happened HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS IN THE PAST and most of it PRIOR TO OUR HAVING THE ABILITY to speak.
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