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Adam & Eve Materialized on Evolved, Populated Earth
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I know you from other sites and that you are a world-class authority when it comes to DNA and genetics, so I have great respect for your opinion. For many years I rubbished the idea that there was any connection between Adam and the lower primates, but now I'm having second thoughts.
You appear to have a new dog, so your other dog must have died - sorry about that; it ain't no fun losing a pet.
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I don't mean DNA here, just genealogical descent. If two groups of people keep interbreeding, soon everyone has ancestors from both groups. If having even one ancestor from the 'souled' group means you have a soul, that means everyone has a soul after not too many generations. (How many generations depends on how large the populations are and how isolated different subgroups are. But unless there are completely isolated populations, everyone gets a soul this way.) This is the case even if you inherit zero DNA from that souled ancestor.
Mind you, I don't think this idea of physically inheriting a soul (even if not inheriting DNA) makes a lot of sense, but there are those who propose it.
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Yes, the old dog is dead -- and greatly missed. No new dog, though. I just haven't updated my profile pic. (But we did have a loaner dog for the past week while my son was out of town. Happy to have him, happy to send him back to my son.)
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Oh, I thought the dog in your avatar was a newbie, but it's the old dog? Sorry.
They say getting another dog is the best way to get over losing your old dog, but that's your biz.
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It's a real mysterious, grey area, I think.
But changing the subject slightly, if there were souless humans that shared a common ancestor with chimps and that led up to Adam, that would explain the scientific claims about humans using fire and primitive tools, etc, hundreds of thousands of years ago. Those humans obviously had some intelligence, but it took a long time to develop IQ to the "Adam" level, at which point God said, "This boy's finally ready for the 'soul' upgrade."
Fascinating stuff.
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Adam and Eve had the breath of life. Genesis 2:7.
The verbs formed from the roots of these words (nafash and nasham ) mean "to breathe." The two words are found together in Genesis 2:7, which narrates how the first human (adam ) received the breath of life (nishmat ḥayyim ) from God and became a living soul (nefesh ḥayyah ).
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He is talking about what science calls hunter gathers or primitive man compared to food producers of civilized man. In archeology some of the primate camping sites became a city. They had to follow the animal hurds around for dinner. Where modern man has domesticated farm animals that he raises for food. When I was growing up my mom would say if you don't behave I will cook your goose. I thought she meant she would tan our hide. What she was talking about was children would bond with farm animals that became a pet for them. If they were not good then they would cook their pet and serve it on the dinner table.
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