Mark Hubbard wrote:
>
> I have been watching the PBS series that last couple of nights and
> was wondering what Christians think about where Adam came into
> the picture in the common descent idea. Shortly thereafter Keith
> Miller came on and, in response to a question, mentioned that God
> may have chosen an early man to breath life and spirit into (I hope
> I'm paraphrasing Keith fairly)
>
> Are there other thoughts and ideas on how Adam and the garden
> coincide with current human evolutionary theory? I would be
> interested in hearing any.
>
> (and to think I knew Keith Miller before he was a famous, PBS
> star.....)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
> Hubbard@cofo.edu
[Hammond]
The Wheaton Wonders certainly are a handsome
looking group of kids. Certainly the flower of
the nation and the hope of the future.
They may represent the only group of young
people who have any idea there is a God in this
country... certainly a privileged education
for a 20 year old kid. I wish I'd been privy to
it that age instead of being rag tag no nothing
country bumpkin.
But, I think they deserve more than Kieth Miller
was able to tell them. Frankly I think middle aged
adults seriously underestimate the concern of these
young people or what they might do. For example the
Jefferson High students who challenged their school
board over "Special Creation".
Getting back to Wheaton... why hasn't some genius
like Polkinghorne suggested to these kids that Adam
and Eve were simply the first two Homo Sapiens Sapiens
born 40,000 years ago? (40,000 is close enough
to 6,000 on a scale of 1 to 15-billion after all).
This would identify Adam and Eve as "real people", the
first two people of our species, and factually justify
the Creation story and Genesis. Fact is, it would
explain the "Creation of our World" since these two
first H.s.s. were the first two people to have a true
human brain, which after all, does "create the World".
The fact is, that modern Paleontologists are in fact
searching for Adam and Eve what with all their bone
collecting, and there is a good chance they may
actually eventually find them.
This would explain "Creation" as the creation of
the first true human beings, and yet also explain
"Evolution" also. Since the advent of the two first
true human beings (our species) marks the beginning
of the "world as we see it" it therefore constitutes
the "special Creation" of the World.
I think somebody better start being more
concerned about the misuse of our most valuable
capitol equipment... those young people, and start
coming up with some more realistic answers about God
and Religion. If they don't, the Creationist Revolution,
which is going to occur anyway from the looks of it,
is simply going to come into the world without a
legitimate birth certificate.
-- Be sure to visit my website below ----------------------------------------------------------- George Hammond, M.S. Physics Email: ghammond@mediaone.net Website: http://people.ne.mediaone.net/ghammond/index.html -----------------------------------------------------------
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