(April 11, 2020 at 7:08 pm)Klorophyll Wrote:(April 11, 2020 at 6:43 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Just like the billions of humans and human ancestors who existed before the Abrahamic god appeared a few thousand years ago?
The religious narrative considers the fall of man to be the first event ever in human history, thus the first man and woman did know God. But of course, atheists can simply deny the occurence.
Your mythology is showing.
The problem that Theistic Evolution is incapable of overcoming is that "modern humans" didn't spring into existence at some sharply defined point in time. Every individual was descended from ancestors that were very nearly indistinguishable from their progeny. Only tiny changes occur from one generation to the next. That's how evolution works. The "modern human" was born of parents that we so-very-nearly-modern humans as to be indistinguishable. Science has no problem with these shades of grey but TE requires a sharp division that simply isn't present. God has to draw a line and say "Screw everybody who came before this. They just didn't make the cut. Because I haven't evolved them enough yet."
