(Ron) Human origin
Brian Dean bridean@worldnet.att.net
Tue, 31 Mar 1998 22:17:02 -0500 (00891422222, 19980401030902.AAA4828@briandea)
>GANESH PANTA
>Adam and Eve were created at ~4,000 B.C. Flood killed all human beings
>except Noah and his wife, their 3 sons and their wives at ~2,000 B.C.
>It means ~4,000 years ago, the population of the whole earth was only
>8. Until Viking era (~800-900 AD), people lived in confined area
>because there was no means of transportation. Vikings were the first
>people to cross a long distance through ocean. This implies that
>Noah's descendents must have lived around Turkey (that was where the
>ark was rested upon after the flood). With this background
>information, I have the following question:-
>
>1. How Noah's descendents were able to go and live in a
>other part of the world including southern tip of S. America,
>Australia, New Zealand, and N. America?
>
>2. The early travelers like Vikings, Vasco De Gama, Marco Polo, etc.
>encountered other people where ever they went? Where did these other
>people came from?
>
>3. There are clear evidences that the Indians were living in the
>United states as early as 11,000 B.C. i.e. 5,000 years before Adams
>and Eve were created. How this can be explained?
>
>4. Suppose people from Turkey did travel around the globe by some
>means. But just in matter of a few thousand years, how come some
>people became dark as coal, the other became white as snow, the other
>appeared as Indian, and still the others as Asian and Hispanic?
>
>Any comments are appreciated.
>
>Ganesh
>nprizew@yahoo.com
RON
Those dates are speculation not derived accurately from scripture. The
present understanding of genetic science is that everyone on earth is
descended from one female dubbed "Lucy" by scientists. This has been
proven by testing the mitochondrial DNA from people around the world.
This substantiates the Biblical notion that we have common ancestors
(Adam and Eve).
As for the Vikings being the first, this is speculation also. Some
have suggest the Egyptians, Chinese, South Americans and even the Irish,
preceded them.
I was taught by an atheistic professor of social anthropology that
there was in fact a cataclysmic flood in the middle east in ancient
prehistoric times. This accounts for the fact that many of the earliest
cities were started in areas that are now dry deserts. You have to
understand that when the Bible refers to the whole "world" being flooded
it does not necessarily refer to the whole earth. The ancients had no
understanding of this. It could simply refer to the whole area with
which they were familiar.
As far as the differences of skin coloring etc. Those with more
pigment in areas of intense sunlight would have had a greater resistance
to skin cancer and would have had a greater chance to pass on their
genes. The same is true of all variations of "race". Environmental
factors played a part in who would be able to pass on their genes. We
are all the same species. The fact that we can reproduce with people of
other "races" proves this.
Obviously I believe the earth to be much older than some Christians (a
very few, who you seem to be familiar with) consider it to be.
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