Science or history?

[juvenissun]

A physician who has made a complete examination of a person without having been told his age could probably make an accurate estimate of it because of his knowledge of how the aging process works. But what would happen if he were to travel back in time and examine Adam and Eve immediately after they were created and was then asked to estimate their age? If he didn’t know they had been created directly he would assume they had been born as babies and base his estimate on how long it would take for them to reach their present state if they had undergone the normal aging process. The result would be that his estimate would be much higher than their actual age.

This opening message is commonly used and is basically wrong.

Adam in the Garden is different from human in that he will not die. If he does not die, then age is a meaningless concept and not a measurable item.

So, it is not correct to say the newly created Adam has an adult age. This is as laughable as to use human psychology to analyze the behavior of ants. If scientists today measured the physiology of Adam in the Garden, the conclusion is most likely "inconclusive in age", or in plain English: do not know the age.

 

[seeingeyes]

A physician who has made a complete examination of a person without having been told his age could probably make an accurate estimate of it because of his knowledge of how the aging process works. But what would happen if he were to travel back in time and examine Adam and Eve immediately after they were created and was then asked to estimate their age? If he didn’t know they had been created directly he would assume they had been born as babies and base his estimate on how long it would take for them to reach their present state if they had undergone the normal aging process. The result would be that his estimate would be much higher than their actual age.

I think that physician would be utterly flabbergasted to see an apparently full grown man with no scars, no callouses, no belly button, no in-grown hair, no wear and tear on his joints or his organs or his bones, no split ends, no indication of any kind that he had interacted with this world at all.

Adam would appear to a physician to be a full grown man who had 'poofed' into existence five minutes ago (even if the physician could not offer an explanation for that).

 

[gluadys]

I think that physician would be utterly flabbergasted to see an apparently full grown man with no scars, no callouses, no belly button, no in-grown hair, no wear and tear on his joints or his organs or his bones, no split ends, no indication of any kind that he had interacted with this world at all.

Adam would appear to a physician to be a full grown man who had 'poofed' into existence five minutes ago (even if the physician could not offer an explanation for that).

Exactly. And that is how we know the earth (and the whole universe) are really old. They don't just show maturity; they show history--a history that has left scars and callouses and evidence of wear and tear.