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Recent content by John Bauer

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    Human/chimp genomic similarity drops to ~85%: for real this time?

    The only interesting contribution I can make is that whoever runs the X account @OriginsUnveiled consistently logs in from Spain.
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    How Long have Humans Lived on Earth?

    Genealogies can conflict without contradicting, yes? A contradiction occurs only when two claims assert mutually exclusive facts within the same referential frame. Genealogies can differ in scope, purpose, and method without contradicting, provided they are not making the same claim in the same...
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    How Long have Humans Lived on Earth?

    “Differing” does not mean “contradictory,” and there is an important reason for this difference.
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    How Long have Humans Lived on Earth?

    Calling these practices “the ways of life of Adam” is not a neutral description; it is a conclusion smuggled into the premise. Your statement presupposes precisely what it needs to prove, both that Adam precedes these societies and that agricultural and pastoral practices originate with him...
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    is there a TV show from back from 80s and 90s you miss?

    I want to know why there are no streaming services that offer Little House on the Prairie or The Waltons.
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    How Long have Humans Lived on Earth?

    Cheers. We can be uncertain about a particular date for an event without denying its historicity. I would say that we are uncertain about the exact dates of basically 99% of historical people, places, and events. Uncertainty dominates historical knowledge. I suspect the misalignment is...
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    How Long have Humans Lived on Earth?

    I am one of those people who push Adam back in time, though not as far back as you do. Without addressing the great ages of the antediluvians and instead taking them at face value, I situate him around ~5100 BCE. You neglected to say why. In a discussion between us, let’s leave Noah out of...
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    What is a Christian fundamentalist?

    If a fundamentalist is someone who insists on strict adherence to what he regards as the foundational principles of a belief system and resists reinterpretation, accommodation, or revision in light of modern thought, culture, or scholarship, then I am a Christian fundamentalist.
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    How Long have Humans Lived on Earth?

    Not as far back as human societies. If Adam and Eve lived 6,000 years ago, that would be ~3976 BCE. It would take another several hundred years for written language to appear (c. 3300 BCE), but large human societies already existed. Jericho and Tell Qaramel had been around for ~5,000 years by...
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    How Long have Humans Lived on Earth?

    Since I already agree with your opening post (more or less), I will be hanging out here mostly to engage young-earth creationist defenses. However … That statement is false, I’m afraid, if it means that Scripture doesn’t narrate real events in space and time—because it does. Just off the top...
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    What Jesus Said About Adam and Eve

    What about mammal parents?
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    Avoiding people

    Emotional wounds left from betrayal, especially by trusted Christians, tend to persist until they are processed, not just waited out. A good trauma-informed or faith-sensitive counselor can help you process this, separating what happened from the truth of Christ himself. Some offer reduced rates...
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    Appointed to Eternal Life - Acts 13:48

    "The ability to describe a point of view is no indication on its own that it is actually what the biblical authors intended to communicate. The latter is what must concern us." I am keeping that quote forever.
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    Mytho-History

    I followed a somewhat similar path—but only "somewhat." I inherited young-earth creationism from my Baptist mentor who led me to Christ, along with a host of other ideas that I have since shed along the way (e.g., Arminian theology, dispensational premillennialism, etc.). The wealth of...
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    Mytho-History

    I don't have much to contribute at this point because I largely agree with the position articulated by Michael Jones (founder and director of Inspiring Philosophy), which you summarized here. It closely aligns with the somewhat unique view that I hold. But that is to be expected, as we were both...
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