Posted by PS on March 05, 2003 at 15:14:40:
In Reply to: A Query For PS & The Board posted by Xavier on March 05, 2003 at 10:03:18:
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: I got to wondering last night well reading, does it ever say in the bible how the earth was populated. I know that Adam & Eve were the first, though are there any parts in the bible that explain how everyone else got here ?
: This morning I was at P.H.C.C. and they gave a presentation on racisim and stuff one of there points was that we all came from ( our genes ) 7 women in Africa, they were saying that like 30,000 years ago life was on one continent.
: This and last night has me thinking and I was wondering about where I could go in the word and find out more about our origins. If this seems trivial or this is something I should automatically no I am sorry for bothering you. I was just wondering.
: - Xavier
This is a deep subject with many different scholarly views, and you have just heard one of them.
I am especially interested in the implications of modern archaeological/anthropological findings on the Genesis record. I have researched this in some depth and I surely cannot answer your question in pat fashion on a bbs post. We talk about this kind of thing from time to time at the church. You should join us sometime! ;-)
Adam-- Neaderthal? Cro-Magnon?
Cane and Abel-- Agricultural revolution when?
Biblical genealogy-- Why only 7000 years +/- to Adam?
7 day creation-- Literal time? Age-day theory? Gap theory? Ideal time theory?
I am writing a term paper now on these and other issues for Dr. Strange's archaeology class at USF.