Jonathan wrote:
>
>Victor E Pearce in "Who was Adam?" (Paternoster, 1969) also
>advocated a Neolithic Adam. The idea of Preadamites had a long
>history, going back at least to the 19th century.
>
At the risk of getting people mad at my historical noviceness, here is an
example from the 19th century:
"When Cain went into the land of Nod, he is said to
have had a wife and built a city, which he named after
his first-born son, Enoch. (Gen. Iv.17.) If there had
not been society, where could he have obtained his
wife, or procured the workmen necessary for such
erections? Moreover, of what use could have been such
a city, if there had been no society to inhabit it?
From these facts, adverted to before, (page 29)it is
fairly to be inferred, that a people were now in
existence, for whom no relationship can be traced to
Adam, and of whose origin we have no history." Rev. E.
D. Rendell, Antediluvian History, (Boston: Otis Clapp,
1856), p. 70
glenn
see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
for lots of creation/evolution information
anthropology/geology/paleontology/theology\
personal stories of struggle
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