Agriculture was spread over Europe (never mind Asia and America) a long time before then, as has been brought to your attention many times.
Yes, I have studies this extensively and I continue to study the Neolithic Revolution. We have to look at what Darwin said that things take place over time. There is time between when: "
God said, Let the
earth bring
forth grass," and when "
God saw that it was
good." So we only need to study two words: SAID & SAW. I know that before Darwin it was popular to believe that God said it and in a instant poof there it was. But that is not the way God works. The Bible looks at the finished process. Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden 6,000 years ago was the finished product. Like a photo. Just like your camera on your phone can take photos and your camera can take movies. A movie is still made up of many photos taken over time. So you have a collection of different moments in time. Genesis Chapter one is more like a movie that takes place over a 7,000 year period of time, according to dispensationalism. Also a day in Genesis can be millions or billions of year. I do not deny OEC but I am not going to try to explain it to anyone.
The question then is why do the exact same words mean different things to different people? First of all words can have two meanings: "
connotative meaning" and "the denotative meaning". http://work911.com/communication/differentmeanings.htm
To understand this we can to look at the teaching of Jung. Where Archetype means: "pattern, model or type". I use to love to read allegories as a new Christian. I esp like "Hinds Feet on High Places" by
Hannah Hurnard. That was before the internet when I use to read a lot of books. Lets look at one of Hannah Hurnard stories:
"Much-Afraid, I have already warned you that Love and Pain go together, for a time at least. If you would know Love, you must know pain too.’
"Much-Afraid looked at the thorn and shrank from it. Then she looked at the Shepherd’s face and repeated his words to herself. ’When the seed of Love in your heart is ready to bloom, you will be loved in return,’ and a strange new courage entered her. She suddenly stepped forward, bared her heart, and said, ‘Please plant the seed here in my heart.’"
Hannah is talking about how a flower has thorns and how there is a lesson in this for us. The flower represents love and in order to know love we have to deal with the thorns that can cause pain for us.
We can look at Atoms and see a lesson for marriage. We see that atoms are based on weak and strong attraction and there are forces of repulsion. So the attraction has to be stronger then the repulsion. The beauty of the rose has to be greater then the pain from the thorns. The attraction has to be stronger then the repulsion.
Getting back to the point, the Neolithic Revolution began at the
beginning of this age when the Ice melted. There was a mass extinction and then a radiation or population explosion. On the eighth day (6,000 years ago) we find Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and at that point in time God is finished with all of His work. He worked for 6 days or 6,000 years, then He rested on the seventh day and we find Adam and Eve on the Eighth day around 6,000 years ago.
They do not know when the Nano Diamond Comet was exactly, science says 12,900 years ago. But I also use the Friday the 13 Comet for a marker. According to NASA Asteroid 2004 MN4 will come scarily close to Earth on April 13, 2029. Interestingly enough this will be the date when Jesus went to Calvary. Exactly 2,000 years later a Comet will pass over Jerusalem to mark the event. Then we know 50 days later on Pentecost the Holy Spirit was poured out and this was the beginning of the Christian Church. We always follow the Hebrew Calendar. Seven years later the same comet will pass over Jerusalem again on Resurrection Sunday to mark the say that Jesus was resurrected. The world calls this easter sunday.
At the time in about 12 years lots of people will be writing lots of books trying to make lots of money off of the event. They will accomplish little more then to confuse everyone esp the infidels as to what is going on. Good I never charge anyone anything. Everything I have to offer is free. Jesus paid the price at Calvery.
So when your looking at the Bible as allegory or archetypes. This is known as poetry. Then the Bible is History, The Bible is Science. The Bible is a collection of 66 books written by about 40 authors, in three different languages, on three different continents, over approximately 1600 years. In Gen 1:2 we read: "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness
was upon the face of the deep." This is science. This is the condition the earth was in 12,900 years ago when the Nano-Diamond hit the earth. Interestingly Jeremiah 4:23 talks about this: "I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone." I can not explain this but Jeremiah talks about what we read in Gen 1:2.
