Hello Mike,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MikeSatterlee@cs.com [mailto:MikeSatterlee@cs.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 11:59 AM
> To: asa@calvin.edu.; ateo@whitworth.edu
> Subject: Follow-up / men before Adam
>
>
> Hello Adrian,
>
> Before spending discussing this subject matter further with
> you, it would be
> very helpful to know where you are coming from so to speak.
> For something you
> said at the end of your last post concerns me.
>
> You wrote: [You] reject a literal reading of the 6-days of creation.
>
> Which findings of modern science do you accept? An
> approximately 14 billion
> year old universe? An approximately 4.6 billion year old
> earth.
Yes.
> Life on earth
> having existed for about 4 billion years?
Probably true. I accept this tentatively and cautiously as the currect
scientifc understanding.
> All life now on
> earth has descended
> and evolved from a common ancestor?
I accept this tentatively and cautiously as the currect scientifc
understanding, but with less confidence than the above.
> Anatomically modern man's
> existence for
> at some 100,000 years? Australia being continually inhabited
> for the last
> 30,000 years? North America being continually inhabited for
> the last 15,000
> years?
Yes again, but with about the same degree of confidence as the one
immediately above.
> The fact that activities which Gen. 3 and 4 tell us
> Adam and his
> immediate descendants engaged in, like raising crops, herding
> animals,
> building cities and forging metals, did not take place
> anywhere on earth more
> than 10,000 years ago?
Give or take a few thousand years. This one is still open to discussion. We
cannot conclude something based on the _absence_ of evidence. Some of these
activities may be older, for example, Morton has copper working dated around
13000 year ago. We may find evidnec of older ones yet.
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