Recently I got the following as a reply to an online discussion about what forms of religion or belief pre-homo sapiens practiced.
"Well, a lot of Christians have a lot of theories on this. However, the one I subscribe to because it most closely aligns with both the Bible and the science I've seen are that macro evolution never happened. Also, the Bible does have massive time skips (Gen. 1-12 covers more time than possibly the rest of the Bible combined). Even so, I've studied scientist with both views, well respected in biology, archeology, and geology. Through a lot of study, the most logical explanation I've seen is that the world is anywhere from 6,000-10,000 years old. I believe Adam was formed out of the dust on the sixth day just like the Bible says, thus God would be the God he served. Of all the fossil records regarding the "missing links" in human evolution, every single one has been eventually proven to be either an ape or a human (or in some cases like the Nebraska man, a pig fossil). Lucy, for example, was held up as the first step towards human evolution...and then after researching it found out it was really just a chimp fossil much younger than they thought. There was one that was held up for about a quarter of a century as the missing link until they figured out it was just a human skeleton that suffered from arthritis that had misshapen his bone structure. Then there have been a few that they realized were intentionally faked. One instance was (I want to say a German scientist, I'd have to look this one up) a paleontologist that flat out lied and knowingly attached a chimp jawbone to a human skull. There's also countless fossils of animals that would supposedly never would've live together that wind up fossilized next to or even touching each other. In the 90s they found a carnivorous dinosaur with an amphibian from supposedly millions of years earlier in it's jaw like it was eating it. There's a famous fossil of a tree that spans sedimentary levels supposedly millions of years apart. You couldn't fossilize a whole tree like that unless the levels formed fairly quickly or else the tree would die and rot after the first level killed it's roots, yet the tree has fossilized trees at the top. There's also one of a trilobite, an early aquatic creature like a horseshoe crab, in what looks like a fossilized human shoe print. I have whole books on the subject, but even many pro-evolution biologist and paleontologist say there's a lot of holes in evolutionary theory that need answers. Though, even if evolution were conclusively proved one day, it wouldn't mean Christianity would be disproved. C.S. Lewis for example was a theistic evolutionist that believed God controlled the evolutionary process and added the soul once human evolution was complete. I disagree with this, but it does show that faith in the Christian God isn't contingent on the correctness or incorrectness of the theory of evolution."
I didn't know that people like this were real.
"Well, a lot of Christians have a lot of theories on this. However, the one I subscribe to because it most closely aligns with both the Bible and the science I've seen are that macro evolution never happened. Also, the Bible does have massive time skips (Gen. 1-12 covers more time than possibly the rest of the Bible combined). Even so, I've studied scientist with both views, well respected in biology, archeology, and geology. Through a lot of study, the most logical explanation I've seen is that the world is anywhere from 6,000-10,000 years old. I believe Adam was formed out of the dust on the sixth day just like the Bible says, thus God would be the God he served. Of all the fossil records regarding the "missing links" in human evolution, every single one has been eventually proven to be either an ape or a human (or in some cases like the Nebraska man, a pig fossil). Lucy, for example, was held up as the first step towards human evolution...and then after researching it found out it was really just a chimp fossil much younger than they thought. There was one that was held up for about a quarter of a century as the missing link until they figured out it was just a human skeleton that suffered from arthritis that had misshapen his bone structure. Then there have been a few that they realized were intentionally faked. One instance was (I want to say a German scientist, I'd have to look this one up) a paleontologist that flat out lied and knowingly attached a chimp jawbone to a human skull. There's also countless fossils of animals that would supposedly never would've live together that wind up fossilized next to or even touching each other. In the 90s they found a carnivorous dinosaur with an amphibian from supposedly millions of years earlier in it's jaw like it was eating it. There's a famous fossil of a tree that spans sedimentary levels supposedly millions of years apart. You couldn't fossilize a whole tree like that unless the levels formed fairly quickly or else the tree would die and rot after the first level killed it's roots, yet the tree has fossilized trees at the top. There's also one of a trilobite, an early aquatic creature like a horseshoe crab, in what looks like a fossilized human shoe print. I have whole books on the subject, but even many pro-evolution biologist and paleontologist say there's a lot of holes in evolutionary theory that need answers. Though, even if evolution were conclusively proved one day, it wouldn't mean Christianity would be disproved. C.S. Lewis for example was a theistic evolutionist that believed God controlled the evolutionary process and added the soul once human evolution was complete. I disagree with this, but it does show that faith in the Christian God isn't contingent on the correctness or incorrectness of the theory of evolution."
I didn't know that people like this were real.
wolfwood1203:
My head hurts after reading that...
gabeofthorns:
My response was pretty extensive, but in essence, my wife, who is an Anthropology professor, heartily disagrees.