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Yes there is. Eden is a bio diverse eco system. One where we find domesticated plants and animals. Science and Botany tells us a lot about this. Science is very interested in how farming spread from the Middle East to Europe and they have put a lot of study into this. Ancient History and Science can tell us a lot about what we read in Genesis.
Jesus is the Door. If you go back to the ancient Hebrew letter D dalet means door. Jesus is the gate keeper, He decides who can enter in through the door into the tent or dwelling. The Hebrew letters used to write the Torah are symbols that have infinite meaning. We could go on forever just to study the meaning we find in the letters themselves.
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Noah's flood is a shadow and type of the global flood that took place at the time of Pangea. Today they use the word paradigm. There have actually been 6 extinctions where 90% of the worlds population went extinct. The most recent was around 12,990 years ago an event MARKED by the nano diamond comet. This is when the saber tooth tiger and wholly mammoths went extinct. This is when the age or era that we now live in - began.
Collins is more a man of Science. He does not spend a lot of time to try to understand the Bible.
Again that's an assumption about the evidence. Evidence doesn't come with labels. Scientists devised tests and they decided this is what the evidence shows. But they are not infallible and they weren't there. You put a lot of faith into those tests. If you want to talk about evidence for an old earth, there is also evidence showing a young earth. Evidence for a Young Earth
Evolution and the Bible are both all about common ancestor. Eden was all about the domestication of plants and animals. They have done a lot of research to understand how farming spread to Europe from the Middle East.
Your evidence shows that: "Niagara Falls was 10,000 years old". The age or era we live in began 12990 years ago at the end of the last ice age when there was a 90% extinction of what was here before. The Great lakes and it tributaries were somewhat changed by the Ice age but they were very much here before that ice age began. When they were working on the bridge and the expressway they uncovered layers of conglomerate rock that was formed before the ice age began. We can see where the old river beds were and where the new river beds are. The same is true in Eden. We can tell where Eden was when we study the old dried up river beds that can be photographed with the google space satellites. Right now Eden is under the Persian Gulf. It is still flooded.
Adam was the first. We have the whole genealogy from Adam to Jesus. The two most important people are Abraham & David. We are told that Adam gave 70 years of his life to David. Jesus rules on the throne of David. "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” (Genesis 3:15) Jesus is the seed or the descendant of Adam & Eve.
. The biological basis is that most of us got our mitochondria from a woman or her close relatives . But that other genetic material like our chromosomes came from other female or male ancestors . Mitochondrial Eve is only one maternal ancestor of several for living humans . Mitochondrial Eve who lived much more than 6000 years ago is not the biblical Eve .Agreed. Given that, I find the notion that a Christian would believe Adam and Eve did not exist to be preposterous. God Bless You
