Drich Wrote:Simply put "we" take the account of Creation in Genesis and marry it with the known fossil record. For instance Creation Happened as recorded, but where most assume a very limited time frame from the creation of man and the fall from grace. we insert the 900 trillion billion years or whatever the new number is that explains the existing fossil records.
Eden is well defined paradise bordered by 4 rivers, it was a paradise where Man made in the image of God resided. Everything outside of those rivers progressed and evolved at whatever the going rate was.
Everything in the garden or at least Man (Created in the Image of God) was created to be what man was about 5000 years ago.
That is when "Created in the Image of God Man." first intermingled with descended from apes man, that you all seem to be so keen on. This explains Cains wife, the cities and all of the "other people" atheists believe to be proof of inconsistencies in the genesis account.
Remember outside of the 7 days of creation, the Genesis account only focuses on what happens in the Garden of Eden until the fall of man. This does not mean everything outside of the boarders of eden, (the rest of the earth) ceased to exist.
Does it hurt when you bend over that far backwards? You are just inventing assumptions to try and salvage a story that has clearly been fabricated by people with limited understanding of the history of the human race. Unless of course you have proof for any of these assumptions.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
