Aqualung said:
This is the way I look at it: Adam and Eve trangressed at 6000bc. Who knows how long they were in the Garden of Eden before that, or what all the other animals were doing outside of the garden. The could have been in there for millions of years, while animals were changing etc, for how much is really matters.
Because they were too alike, that they were too powerufl, and they almost built a tower to heaven. So god confused their languages, and probably at this time made them look different.
OK, I did not have time to properly deal with your response earlier when I simply thanked you for your response, now I have a bit more time, and I will take a stab at a response.
Re: your first point that Adam and Eve transgressed at 6000 b.c., this seems to indicate that you are a proponent of the Pre-Adamic Man theory. Which as I understand it states that there were various mud-peoples existing from time immemorial on Earth, and that God came along and created Adam and Eve, which are either the first Jews, or the first Caucasians, depending upon who I have heard tell it.
Frankly, Pre-Adamic man theory does a better job of meshing Biblical accounts with scientific reality, than about any other faith based theory I have heard. I have a strong feeling that a non "political-correctness" look at human genetics through DNA research could go a long ways to either bolster or dissipate this theory.
Re: the mixing up of languages and races during the time of the Tower of Babel, that is also an interesting theory, but, to accept your theory that God changed up the races at that time presents a couple of problems.
First off, you have to accept that there is something around (God) who can break all the known laws of physics and genetics, which is, to put it mildly, a stretch.
Secondly, if God was threatened by the building of the Tower, as it might reach to Heaven, then that would imply that Heaven is "up there" some where. Obviously the people of the time of the Tower of Babel, had no way of climbing any higher than they could build. Their construction materials would have been wood. Wooden structures have never been built that even approach 1,000 feet in height. Even with modern engineering and materials, modern humans cannot build a building that comes even moderately close to a mile high. I find it very hard to imagine God being concerned about a wooden structure, which likely could not have been over a couple hundred feet tall.
Since that time modern humans have travelled much higher than ancient man could even imagine possible, and there have been no modern instances of God putting the kibash on humans going higher and higher into and even out of, the atmosphere.
Third, God establishing different languages, races, etc. . . at the time of the Tower of Babel ignores the genetic problem of Adam and Eve and their offspring running into inbreeding problems. I have presumed in section one of this that you would resort to a Pre-Adamic Man theory to explain this discrepancy, if this is not the case, I am highly interested in how section one and 3 are merged.
I guess that is enough for now, happy debating.
B.
