>>But do you believe, as Glenn does, that these were FULLY human, in the
>> sense
>>we are today?
If you mean did they look like us (and maybe carry Franklin Planners) the
answer is obviously no. "FULLY human, in the sense we are today" is rather
vague.
With the capacities the Bible indicates?
Yes.
Do you believe these
>>humans were farming four million years ago?
If Glenn is correct, the time is not four, but 5.5 million years ago + the
time between Adam and Noah. Again, as I remember Glenn's scenario, there
wouln't have been much farming going on 4 million years ago. In any case,
it's not clear to me that the absence of archaeological evidence for
farming establishes that it wasn't going on. Subsistence farming and
herding with little storage and simple tools need not leave very much
evidence.
Building boats?
Glenn answered. Don't you believe in miracles? Surely if God chose to
preserve people from the flood by means of an ark, the fact that they had
no ark-building experience, or that they were (say) homo erectus, would not
have been an impediment.
Communing and
>>entering covenants with God?
Glenn answered, and I agree.
>
In one of his videos, in which he was talking about the great age of the
universe, Hugh Ross said, "God has been at work a long time building a home
for us." Glenn's scenario says something similar about God's activity in
the affairs of men: If he's csorrect, God has been active in the affairs
of men far longer than we imagined. And some beings that we considered
subhuman were very human -- at least in the sense that they carried the
image and likeness of God.
I'm not asserting Glenn is correct, but I think his model is worth keeping
on the table and investigating.
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