{"id":3094,"date":"2016-11-03T04:03:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T11:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2016-11-03T04:03:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T11:03:17","slug":"adam-and-eve-not-ug-and-eev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3094","title":{"rendered":"Adam and Eve, not Ug and Eev!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question from Dontay:<\/strong>
\nEvidence of dinosaurs has been found…museums show that cavemen existed…. But… How can cavemen be real if Adam and Eve are supposedly the first people on earth?
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\nAnswer by SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong>
\nIf by “cavemen” you simply mean people who lived in caves and hunted and gathered for a living, then perhaps Adam and Eve’s immediate descendants did that once the garden of Eden was closed to them. The timing doesn’t work out at all<\/em> when you count the supposed 34 generations from the Biblical Adam to the Biblical and historical King David<\/a> and compare them to the scientifically estimated dates of the cavemen’s remains, but people who are motivated to prop up the story of Genesis will accept it anyway.
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\nIf on the other hand you mean Neanderthals and other departed species within the genus Homo<\/em><\/a>, there you have a conflict which is less easily dismissed. The story goes that God not only made Man more or less in his present form (or a super-version that was huge and could live for centuries) but He made Man in his own image<\/em>, which is poorly defined but usually taken to mean an image of perfection. “Lesser” or more primitive versions of Man don’t jibe with this idea at all. That’s why creationist explanations<\/a> of the evidence simply assert that they were all just modern-type humans with primitive lifestyles.
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\nAs for dinosaurs, all evidence points to the fact that the last ones were dead millions of years before the first humans were born. Not so for most creationists; rather than deny they existed, many of them say dinosaurs were present on the Ark, and they’re depicted as such at the new Ark Encounter<\/a> park in Kentucky. Any evidence or argument that so much as requires the expression “millions of years” is explicitly demonised<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Question from Dontay: Evidence of dinosaurs has been found…museums show that cavemen existed…. But… How can cavemen be real if Adam and Eve are supposedly the first people on earth? Answer by SmartLX: If by “cavemen” you simply mean people who lived in caves and hunted and gathered for a living, then perhaps Adam and … Continue reading “Adam and Eve, not Ug and Eev!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[560,561,6],"tags":[539,22,328,570],"class_list":["post-3094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-2","category-science-2","category-text","tag-answers-in-genesis","tag-creationism","tag-origins","tag-radiometric-dating"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-NU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3097,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}