Pre-Adamic Earth

[Eleknar]

Anybody ever heard of the Pre-Adamic Earth theory? What are you thoughts on this?

 

[shernren]

Not sure which one you mean. After all, even the YECs believe that the Earth existed for five days before Adam ...

 

[Eleknar]

I'm talking about the theory that says there was human-like life on earth before Adam.

 

[Mallon]

I would say the Pre-Adamic earth theory is a pretty good one. It certainly explains morphological progressions in the fossil record like this one:

 

[Assyrian]

Any mention of pre-Adamic stuff makes me think in terms of Gap Theory, one branch of which claims there was an angelic civilisation on the earth before Adam, between Gen1:1 and 1:2. This civilisation rebelled against God and was destroyed, hence the formless and void of verse 2.

I think it was a good first attempt in the 19th century at trying to reconcile Genesis with the growing evidence of a geologically ancient earth which had gone through a number of catastrophes in the past.

The church has come up with much better ways of reading Genesis since that don't have any conflict with geoplogy. But the Gap theory lives on.

 

[seekingmyLord]

Skull fossils with letters?

 

[shernren]

Skull fossils with letters?

Satan: Alright boys, (and girls), we're going to plant loads of hominid fossils all around the earth to make people think they evolved from apes, so that once they believe that they were, they will feel that morality has no meaning and that any kind of sin goes.
Mephisto: Umm, Dark Lord, I don't think it's going to work, you see -
Satan: You have a big mouth, don't you? You supervise the whole thing.
Mephisto: (to lackeys) Alright, now here's the deal. I've made a few million hominid fossils that look almost, but not exactly (to throw the humans off) as if they were transitional from humans. And I've labeled them with letters so that you all know where to -
Lackey 1: Letters? What's that?
Mephisto: You know? The alphabet?
Lackey 2: Duh. You're speaking Greek to me.
Mephisto: You mean you're all illiterate?
Lackey 1: Ill-what?
Mephisto: No wonder you rebelled. You never read the Word of God!

 

[OldWiseGuy]

I would say the Pre-Adamic earth theory is a pretty good one. It certainly explains morphological progressions in the fossil record like this one:

Are you telling us that the early 'man' who became ADAM, was actually an ape (skull A)?

 

[Mallon]

Are you telling us that the early 'man' who became ADAM, was actually an ape (skull A)?

Nope. Chimps (A) aren't human, though they do share a number of features with us. Humans develop somewhere between A and N. Care to guess exactly where?

 

[OldWiseGuy]

I'm talking about the theory that says there was human-like life on earth before Adam.

If the fossils shown are really early man it was God's way of mocking the sinning angels by giving them a physical parody of the beings that would eventually replace them on earth. God originally gave the angels physical bodies so that they could enjoy all of the sensations of the material creation. Their original physical bodies were beautiful, but when they rebelled God replaced those bodies with the monsters that we find in the fossil record. The angel's (demons) rebellion resulted in their being cast down to earth which has led to a succession of destructions over millions of years. When God finally decided to proceed with the restitution of his once glorious kingdom he created the perfect physical being with which to work out the final part of his plan: man as we know him today. He wiped the earth of those creatures with a great final destruction. The bible opens with God renewing the face of the earth and creating man.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Nope. Chimps (A) aren't human, though they do share a number of features with us. Humans develop somewhere between A and N. Care to guess exactly where?

But if the apes became humans why are there still apes?

 

[Mallon]

But if the apes became humans why are there still apes?

If Anglicans came from Catholics, why are there still Catholics?
Same answer.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

If Anglicans came from Catholics, why are there still Catholics?
Same answer.

Huh?

 

[Eleknar]

lol. It's funny what can develope from one simple question.

 

[artybloke]

Huh?

Like, y'know, the branches of a tree, not like a ladder?

(Where's that banging smilie against brick wall when you need it?)

 

[seekingmyLord]

Satan: Alright boys, (and girls), we're going to plant loads of hominid fossils all around the earth to make people think they evolved from apes, so that once they believe that they were, they will feel that morality has no meaning and that any kind of sin goes.
Mephisto: Umm, Dark Lord, I don't think it's going to work, you see -
Satan: You have a big mouth, don't you? You supervise the whole thing.
Mephisto: (to lackeys) Alright, now here's the deal. I've made a few million hominid fossils that look almost, but not exactly (to throw the humans off) as if they were transitional from humans. And I've labeled them with letters so that you all know where to -
Lackey 1: Letters? What's that?
Mephisto: You know? The alphabet?
Lackey 2: Duh. You're speaking Greek to me.
Mephisto: You mean you're all illiterate?
Lackey 1: Ill-what?
Mephisto: No wonder you rebelled. You never read the Word of God!

LOL!

Are you telling us that the early 'man' who became ADAM, was actually an ape (skull A)?

You are just too much!

 

[Mallon]

Huh?

I'll phrase it for you:

If I came from my mother, how can I still have a mother?

Think about it. The same answer applies to evolution.

And while you're ruminating over that, please read the following that I pulled from AiG:

‘If we evolved from apes, why are there still apes today?’ In response to this statement, some evolutionists point out that they don’t believe that we descended from apes, but that apes and humans share a common ancestor. However, the evolutionary paleontologist G.G. Simpson had no time for this ‘pussyfooting’, as he called it. He said, ‘In fact, that earlier ancestor would certainly be called an ape or monkey in popular speech by anyone who saw it. Since the terms ape and monkey are defined by popular usage, man’s ancestors were apes or monkeys (or successively both). It is pusillanimous [mean-spirited] if not dishonest for an informed investigator to say otherwise.’
However, the main point against this statement is that many evolutionists believe that a small group of creatures split off from the main group and became reproductively isolated from the main large population, and that most change happened in the small group which can lead to allopatric speciation (a geographically isolated population forming a new species). So there's nothing in evolutionary theory that requires the main group to become extinct.
It’s important to note that allopatric speciation is not the sole property of evolutionists—creationists believe that most human variation occurred after small groups became isolated (but not speciated) at Babel, while Adam and Eve probably had mid-brown skin color. The quoted erroneous statement is analogous to saying ‘If all people groups came from Adam and Eve, then why are mid-brown people still alive today?’

 

[seekingmyLord]

I'll phrase it for you:

If I came from my mother, how can I still have a mother?

Think about it. The same answer applies to evolution.

So, a mother have a human child and still be an ape?

 

[Mallon]

So, a mother have a human child and still be an ape?

Are you trying to not understand?

 

[OldWiseGuy]

LOL!


You are just too much!

But why would a perfectly good ape become a rotten old human? That's just too fantastic.