Be Fruitful, And Multiply, And Replenish The Earth.

The narrative in Genesis 1 puts the history of the earth at no more than 10,000 years old.  The was the prevailing and accepted age of the earth for many centuries, even at the dawn of Enlightenment and the scientific age.  In fact, scientist who first postulated an ancient earth had the huge obstacle of Genesis to overcome.  Although there may have been a few renegade individual you may have postulated an old earth in antiquity, this may have been the result of idle speculation, some deductive reasoning, mythology, or simple guesswork. Today, with sophisticated scientific tools it is possible to determine the age of the earth with greater degrees of accuracy. It is currently estimated at about 3.8 billion years old. 

What is even more interesting is that for more that half that period life have existed on the planet, albeit in the form of unicellular and microbial life. Complex multicellular life is a rather younger participant of the drama of life on the planet, with a record no more than about 500 million years.  The Cambrian explosion saw the emergence of new body-plans, new organism and a wide variety of flora.  These evolved into your dinosaurs, flowering plants in later geological periods.

The dynamism and robustness of life on the planet is staggering.  There have been many great extinction events on the planet, some wiping out 98% of all living things at the time.  In fact, current estimates says about 99% of all things that have ever lived are now extinct.

The existence and extinction of life for many millions of years is clearly a problem for the Genesis account. Upon the widespread acceptance of the scientifically determined age of the earth and the facts of evolution, it became imperative for theologians to re-interpret and offer some kind of remedial understanding of the Genesis account.  Some theologians found Genesis 1: 28 as offering that explanation of a pre-Adamite world.

Genesis 1:


26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

 28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

 29And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

 30And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.


This basically means there must have been more than one creation events, interspersed by long eras of life and geological activities.  The Christians promoting this view have latched onto  the word REPLENISH in Genesis 1:28 to mean that god's latest creation was a replenishment of a long lost world.  If this is true, what did god intend Adam&Eve (AE) to replenish on the earth?

1)   Were AE meant to replenish the earth with only their own kind, that is only other humans?  On this reasoning, are we to assume that this was a replenishment of some pre-Adamite humans?  Is this an acknowledgment of the existence of Neanderthals, Homo erectus, Homo Afluerensis etc.

2)  Adam is supposed to have named all the animals on the earth.  Were the animals he named those created in the pre-Adamite world or those created alongside Adam?

3)  What did god mean by give AE dominion over all living things?

Would it be unfair if I said all of the above is rubbish as it completely failed to address any of the issues I discussed?

What sort of bizarre and nonsensical circular logic (or better still, non-logic) is this.   Why do I have to first of all belief and be committed to something that I am investigating?  Further, you are asking me to trust the very thing (ie the bible) that I am questioning.  Is this not illogical to you?   Are there no independent source outside the bible that could provide credence to your point?

huxley and mazaje: BIRDS OF THE SAME FEATHER, ALWAYS TOGETHER

SCHIZO. How did you escape from the mental hospital?

Since we are educating the woud be 1% of massess why don't we give them the full story of what you believe in  and let me help break you out some more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP5t8Pyi4y4&feature=related


Nationality my ass. Why don't you tell the people about lost tribes of israel,khazars, middle passage, African Americans,Gentiles, curseof white skin and all that other mumbo jumbo and see if the people don't pick up on Hate Preaching in disguise.


Opression is a stressor and warps the brain's nerves into very bizarre though patterns. Thats my opinion

Huxley,

From Rock dating and volacanic activity geologist and scientist have managed to gestimate the age of the earth from cambiran to cretaceous to Holcone periods.

However what is your view on the non restriction of time when it is applied to a Superior Being and how man has been able to measure and date "Time"

Isn't there a Christian arguement within those confines and if so how do you contend with that arguement.

Yes
Yes ,Yes, Calm down, don't get too excited. I know you are God's warrior and if you pray hard enough he will zap me with a lightning bolt in the ass  and I will descend down to the pits of hell.

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See how you spell Wahala. Gives you away doesn't it. Stick to the topic

Like you, Plenty more.