(April 12, 2020 at 10:51 am)Klorophyll Wrote: First of all, it's not clear that the religious figure of Adam coincides with the first modern human. As both the label "modern humans" and the exact epoch when Adam supposedly lived according to religions are not precisely determined.
It's immaterial. In your story "Adam" represents a first and everybody before that just doesn't matter.
Quote:Second, if God picks modern humans to be the chosen creatures, where is exactly the problem in doing that?
If you can't see the problem with drawing arbitrary distinctions and creating second-class citizens then you're going to end up with bigotry, slavery, and genocide. There is no difference between the "first modern human" and its parents. Treating one like people and the other like animals is a vast problem.
Quote:And what makes you think whoever came before modern humans didn't know God in some other way, or whether they needed any guidance at all if they lacked cognitive ability to receive it.
Your "narrative".
