Re: [asa] The Bible does not require a Neolithic Adam!

On 10/27/06, Glenn Morton <glennmorton@entouch.net> wrote:
>
> Iain wrote:
> >> I don't know what Dick has to say on this issue, but I don't
> >> agree. =
> It
> seems to me that you want to have your cake and eat it. You don't
> want =
> the
> bible to be "wrong", so you try to push back Adam to huge times in the =
> past.

I'm not saying that I take these genealogies literally, but they do =
> counter
> your claim that there is nothing in Scripture that says Adam was living
> anytime in the past 150,000 years. These genealogies clearly say he =
> only
> lived a few thousand years ago.=20
> <<<
> That people are missing from the genealogies is no big surprise. The=20
> question is how many people? Can you cite a verse that says no=20
> geneological gap shall hold more than 5 people? The issue is not when =
> the=20
> people lived or how old they are. The issue is whether or not they
> were =
>
> real people.
> ***

I think this counters your counter.=20

I don't think so. The issue of whether or not there are gaps in the
genealogies is irrelevant. All that does is to explain the great ages. But
it doesn't explain away the SHORT timescale you get from simply adding the
figures - the argument is the same whether it means literally father of or
"ancestor of". You can't get around the simple argument:

When Adam was 130 years old he became the ancestor of Seth
When Seth had lived 105 years he became the ancestor of Enosh

etc

130 + 105 + ..... + 182 + 600 = 1656 -> implied Biblical date of the
flood.

I can't cite a verse that says no genealogical gap holds more than 5 people,
but Gen 5 indicates that no genealogical gap is more than 187 years
(Methuselah).

I don't care about missing generations because the timespan between each
name in the list is given. There is simply no way you can stretch these
numbers out by three orders of magnitude.

Furthermore, it says Noah was 500 years old when he became the father of
Ham, Shem and Japeth. In this case the implied meaning is LITERALLY father,
as N, H, S & J were all present on the ark according to the account.

So I think your theory of missing generations proves nothing towards your
thesis that Adam lived < 150,000 years ago.

Iain

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Received on Fri Oct 27 02:40:41 2006