Adam was made from the dust of the ground.....

[lesliedellow]

"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

The "dust of the ground" is mostly made up of silicon dioxide and various silicates. So, if we are invited to believe that the above verse is literally true, how is it that the human body is 18% carbon by weight, with only trace amounts of silicon present.

 

[juvenissun]

"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

The "dust of the ground" is mostly made up of silicon dioxide and various silicates. So, if we are invited to believe that the above verse is literally true, how is it that the human body is 18% carbon by weight, with only trace amounts of silicon present.

It is not that hard to see.
One process is not mentioned in the description. The process turned silicates into (various) organic material.
God makes animals and human the same way, except the breath is saved only for human.

A literally true description does not mean a complete scientific description.

 

[lesliedellow]

No chemical process will turn silicon into carbon.

 

[AV1611VET]

"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

The "dust of the ground" is mostly made up of silicon dioxide and various silicates. So, if we are invited to believe that the above verse is literally true, how is it that the human body is 18% carbon by weight, with only trace amounts of silicon present.

The average human body has around 7 grams of silica in it.

This means that God may have filtered out the rest of the silicon from the sand.

My wife baked a cake from a 10lb bag of sugar, yet the cake only weighs about 3lbs.

Can you explain this?

 

[ClothedInGrace]

Do you have a sample of dirt from the Garden of Eden? No, you don't.

What does the content of the dirt matter anyways? The creation of Adam was by the power of God which is capable of anything. How did Jesus turn water into wine when water is only H20? He is God, that's how.

 

[SkyWriting]

"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."The "dust of the ground" is mostly made up of silicon dioxide and various silicates. So, if we are invited to believe that the above verse is literally true, how is it that the human body is 18% carbon by weight, with only trace amounts of silicon present.

I can't imagine how your source came to this conclusion.

 

[029b10]

"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

The "dust of the ground" is mostly made up of silicon dioxide and various silicates. So, if we are invited to believe that the above verse is literally true, how is it that the human body is 18% carbon by weight, with only trace amounts of silicon present.

The atmosphere is composed of nitrogen (78%) and oxygen (21%), and other trace elements including h20 (1%). So how did volcanoes create the atmosphere from water since steam is still water,h20, merely in state of vapor (gas) which would instantly freeze when exposed to outer space and return to the earth as a solid, ice. Seems you might have a viable working model in which life, either evolved or created, could actually survive in since it doest do any good to point out to the splinter that is in thy brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in thine own eye?

The creation of Adam was by the power of God which is capable of anything.

So all things are possible with God? Then if all things are possible with God then all things would be possible including evolution.

How did Jesus turn water into wine when water is only H20?

maybe from the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil?

 

[lesliedellow]

The average human body has around 7 grams of silica in it.

This means that God may have filtered out the rest of the silicon from the sand.

My wife baked a cake from a 10lb bag of sugar, yet the cake only weighs about 3lbs.

Can you explain this?

So where did the carbon come from?

 

[lesliedellow]

Do you have a sample of dirt from the Garden of Eden? No, you don't.

Special pleading. Eden was unlike anywhere else on Earth, except ap open cast coal mine, and then, of course, God would have had no trouble finding the carbon he needed.

 

[lesliedellow]

I can't imagine how your source came to this conclusion.

How about chemical analysis?

 

[lesliedellow]

The atmosphere is composed of nitrogen (78%) and oxygen (21%), and other trace elements including h20 (1%). So how did volcanoes create the atmosphere from water since steam is still water,h20, merely in state of vapor (gas) which would instantly freeze when exposed to outer space and return to the earth as a solid, ice. Seems you might have a viable working model in which life, either evolved or created, could actually survive in since it doest do any good to point out to the splinter that is in thy brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in thine own eye?

I am not sure what any of that is supposed to mean. The oxide of hydrogen isn't a chemical element, by the way.

So all things are possible with God? Then if all things are possible with God then all things would be possible including evolution.

Did I say otherwise?

 

[AV1611VET]

So where did the carbon come from?

If I build a snowman, did I get the eyes of coal from the snow? how about its nose, a carrot?

 

[lesliedellow]

If I build a snowman, did I get the eyes of coal from the snow? how about its nose, a carrot?

"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground"

If God needed carbon, it was a bit inefficient of him to pick something almost wholly made up of silicon compounds as his raw material, wasn't it?

 

[AV1611VET]

"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground"

If God needed carbon, it was a bit inefficient of him to pick something almost wholly made up of silicon compounds as his raw material, wasn't it?

Just as "inefficient" for my wife to bake a 3lb cake using sugar from a 10lb bag.

 

[lesliedellow]

Just as "inefficient" for my wife to bake a 3lb cake using sugar from a 10lb bag.

Unless she throws the other 7lb away, I don't see why that is inefficient.

 

[SkyWriting]

How about chemical analysis?

So is all dust the same in your world? Not mine.

 

[KWCrazy]

"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground"
If God needed carbon, it was a bit inefficient of him to pick something almost wholly made up of silicon compounds as his raw material, wasn't it?

Who created the carbon? God.
Who created all the elements in the human body? God.
Who fed 5,000 people with 5 small loaves of bread and 2 fish, and had 12 baskets of leftovers? God.
Who created Eve from Adam's rib bone? God.
Your supposition that God had to work only with the available elements on a planet He had just created from nothingness is absolute foolishness.
Where did all the nutrients that comprised manna originate?
How did all the water get into the stone?
These things are miracles because they do NOT fit with any scientific reasoning. God doesn't do card tricks. He does the impossible.

 

[lesliedellow]

So is all dust the same in your world? Not mine.

The dust in your house is mostly dead skin cells.

The chemical make up of earth is pretty much the same all the world over.

 

[lesliedellow]

Your supposition that God had to work only with the available elements on a planet He had just created from nothingness is absolute foolishness.

I was quoting the YEC's very favour-est book in the whole wide world: Genesis 1-2. Normally that is to be read absolutely literally, of course. Except for when, as here, it doesn't suit them to do so.

 

[AV1611VET]

Unless she throws the other 7lb away, I don't see why that is inefficient.

So when God made Eve, He should have taken all his ribs?