Hi Ray and all Fellow Students,
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A couple of weeks ago I promised I would ask a question that has always
remained unanswered, seeking Ray’s and the Group’s comments.? It is very
lengthy, for which I apologise, but it is so complex a subject I couldn’t
compress it further.
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How many times have you been faced with the situation of
trying to convince people to believe the words of the Bible when the scientific
evidence seems to prove otherwise – especially with regard to the Beginnings of
Man.
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I am not an historian and these are very, very rough
time frames.?
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Time in the Bible starts around 6,000 BC.? But it is well documented that there was
life on earth at least 46,000 thousand years ago (Aboriginal evidence, as an
example).
2.??????
The Bible states that God created the world, then
animals, then man (Adam and Eve).?
This fact is now under attack from the Darwinian theory;? the theory of evolution, something no
one would be foolish enough to dispute.
3.??????
It is known that the Ice Age occurred about 12-12,000
years ago, causing the distinction of many animals and possibly
mankind.? But the Bible puts life
(our world) starting only 8,000 thousand years ago (6,000bc + 2,000ad
years).
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Assuming Bible times put the age of our world around
8,000 thousand years old, this cannot be correct.? Geological evidence suggests an age of
millions of years.
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My question to Ray and the Group is:? How can we reconcile the Bible with
Science considering the above facts and data?
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My hypothesis
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Although the Bible says God created the World in “6”
days, I believe the six days do not refer to six literal days as we understand
“days” but a timeframe of Six (plus resting day of 7).? Within this timeframe animals and some
form of humans existed – we are talking about LONG timeframes.
2.??????
The theory of evolution cannot be disputed, but somehow
this has to be reconciled with the Bible.?
See Note 3.??
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After the Ice Age few animals survived, but there is
CONSIDERABLE evidence of their existence, including some form of mankind.? And this is where I believe the
Darwinian Theory of Evolution is “king”;?
there were creatures that science calls Man, but I don’t believe Theory
of Evolution PROVES that they WERE actual the beginnings of humans – a totally
different species – Refer*
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After almost everything was wiped out during the
Ice Age, is it possible that our Bible starts sometime AFTER – a new and
different world was created, massaged by God.? Evolution starts with creatures in the
deep (sea), then land, air, etc. to God’s creation of Man, in His image
(somehow!!)
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Recently I came across The Seven Daughters of Eve
by Bryan Sykes, Professor of human genetics at Oxford University, a leading
world authority on DNA and human evolution.? ?In 1994 he was called in to examine the
frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy, purportedly
pre Ice Age.
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He took 3?
hair samples a purported human?
from remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan which were from the miogi, the
Bhutanese yeti. Two of the hairs from DNA analysis, eventually were identified
as hairs from a known species of bear.? The third remained a
mystery.
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From an article published in 2010, he stated it’s now
possible to get a very good DNA signal from a single hair.? This paper contained details of the DNA
sequence from another human species, Homo neanderthalensis, the Neanderthals,
widely thought to be extinct.
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He says we can trace our maternal line back 45,000 years
(similar to Aboriginal belief) and starts with the first scientific evidence of the
survival of apemen into modern times.
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The
Seven Daughters of Eve[1] is a 2001 book by Bryan
Sykes that presents the science of human mitochondrial
genetics to a general audience. Sykes
explains the principles of genetics and human
evolution, the particularities of
mitochondrial DNA, and analyses of ancient DNA to genetically link modern
humans to prehistoric
ancestors.
Following the developments of mitochondrial genetics,
Sykes traces back human migrations, discusses the "out of Africa
theory" and casts serious doubt upon Thor
Heyerdahl's theory of the Peruvian
origin of the Polynesians, which opposed the theory of
their origin in Indonesia. He also describes the use of mitochondrial DNA in
identifying the remains of Emperor Nicholas II of
Russia, and in assessing the genetic makeup of modern
Europe.
The title of the book comes from one of the principal
achievements of mitochondrial genetics, which is the classification of all
modern Europeans into seven groups, the mitochondrial
haplogroups. Each haplogroup is defined
by a set of characteristic mutations on the mitochondrial genome, and can be
traced along a person's maternal line to a specific prehistoric woman. Sykes
refers to these women as "clan mothers", though these women did not all live
concurrently. All these women in turn shared a common maternal ancestor, the
Mitochondrial
Eve.
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His book
goes on to explain in great detail how blood samples taken from different people
from different countries over different time frames confirm his theories
above.
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Sorry
for the length of this email raising issues of the Bible’s account of beginnings
of mankind versus scientific evidence and findings, but this is a topic which
seems to me cannot ever be reconciled, in spite of all our latest technological
achievements.
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Cheers,
Merlene
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