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[BereanStudent]

Of course, humans are much more highly intelligent, but they are very genetically similar to other mammals. They have many of the same body parts. This would lead one to believe that they came from the same gene pool.
There did have to be that first human who had the ability to comprehend the world around him, able to add 1+1 and then more complicated problems, able to love another human, etc.
I believe in evolution - painted by an "Artist". To me, it makes the most sense.
But that's just me.
In case I have been wandering too much on this post, let me just say that I'm open to possibilities - at least those that make sense.

I've come to the possibility that the people that laughed at Noah while he was building his ark, were the people of Atlantis.

It is good to be open to possibilities. For myself , I limit the parameters of those possibilties by the teachings of scripture. But where scripture is silent , there is no reason to be dogmatic in my thinking.

I read somewhere that the hebrew word for create used in Genesis 1:1 is actually translated elsewhere in scripture as fatten.Here the exact same word is used.

1Sa 2:29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

So it could be translated "in the beginning , God fattened the earth ." Which suggests a process.

It also says " Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth " which suggests the possibility that the earth was populated before that.

There are a lot of possibilities. I allow for them as long as there is nothing in scripture which says otherwise.