In the evolution of man there are lots of things to consider and lots of things to talk about. But there was one really big transition that took place. Man went from a food gather to a food producer. This involves seeds, plants & grains. This also involves cattle and farm or domesticated animals. (NOTE: I try to use the words that people need to do a google search)
In the Bible we have Adam and Eve (NOT Adam and Steve). Lets look at what the Bible says:
"4 These
are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, 5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and
there was not a man to till the ground." Genesis Chapter Two (2)
We are told "these are the generations". "These" is a pronoun plural masculine and feminine. Now lets try to figure out what the word "GENERATIONS" means. Perhaps each individual reading this post would like to tell us what the word "generations" means. For example one dictionary says: "All of the offspring that are at the same stage of descent from a common ancestor" If we look at the Bible we read in Genesis 5:1 "the book of the generations of Adam". Science likes to talk about a common ancestor. Here in the Bible we are talking about a common ancestor and his name is Adam.
So lets look at this word generations and see if we can understand what the word means. We get the word "gene" from the word generations. Maybe we could write a book or a hundred books or even hundreds of thousands of books in a library and we would still be trying to figure out what this Hebrew word for "generations" means.
Gen 5:1 "the generations of Adam"
Gen 6:9 "These [are] the generations of Noah:"
Gen 11:10 "These [are] the generations of Shem:"
Gen 25:12 "Now these [are] the generations of Ishmael,"
Ishmael was the son of Abraham and his wife's maid the Egyptian: Hagar. It was actually Abraham's wife: Sarah that same up with the idea of Abraham having a son with her maid. The story is there in the Bible. But later on Sarah got upset with her maid Hagar and the son Ishmael. Hagar of course was distressed. I suppose she thought she would be treated better then the way she was getting treated. You can read the story in Wiki if you do not want to read about Ishmael in the Bible.
Hagar - Wikipedia
Gen 17:20 "And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation."
So if you read the book of Genesis you will read a lot about the Generations of Abraham. I get into this because that is the first word we read in the story is "generations" (other than "these are").
Now let me use a word not in the Bible. A word we read about in Science: Synergism.
Synergism comes from the Greek word "synergos"
meaning working together. "
synergism
- the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects."
What is the synergism here? Adam and farming or Adam and Eve. Because Adam and Eve produced generations and that means a LOT of hungry mouths to feed. We see that Adam was a food producer and that means Adam was able to feed those children. Food production is BOTH animal husbandry and agriculture or tilling the ground.
Did all of this begin with Adam and Eve in the Bible? Is that a wild claim to make? Yet Science talks about common ancestor. We are still only dealing with ONE WORD in our Bible: Generations. What benefits can we reap from the study of this one word???