#1. Here we have plants already in existence growing and it was said that no man was on the Earth to till the ground.
Yes you can check Wiki for a explanation of the Neolithic Revolution. Man was a hunter gather for millions of years. WE did not settle down to become civilized until around 6,000 years ago. Here in American the Indians were hunter gathers when Columbus came over. They did not have permanent settlements. When we were kids we were still finding arrowheads from when the Indians would hunt for their dinner.
If God started with Adam and Eve then how to you explain hunter gathers? Man has been grinding grains for 20,000 years. The grains we find are from wild plants. We do not find domesticated plants until Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden 6,000 years ago.
I remember once looking for who invented the pie. I never found out because they have been around for a very long time. They would take grains and soak them in water to make them softer. Esp when they were older and their teeth were wearing down. Then they would mix some berries in with the gains and perhaps put it by the fire. Before you know it they were making pies.
Fire itself is also very interesting. Just when did man begin to build a fire and cook their food? Some people believe cooking food had a lot to do with evolution because this makes food a lot easier to digest. I have researched and studied a lot of this. When did man first make a hunting spear? When did the first begin to make simple tools? When did they first begin to make farming tools?
The first word in the Bible is beginning. God proclaims the end from the beginning. There are many many beginnings in Science and in the Bible. All of our discussion for how long now has to do with the beginning. What began when. When Jesus went to Calvery He said: It is finished. Is it really finished? Or is it finished we the fruit is mature at the harvest. OR maybe it is finished when we see a new Heaven and a New Earth. So even though Jesus proclaimed 2,000 years ago that it is finished - it is not going to be finished for another 1,000 years.
Isa 46:10 "Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times
the things that are not
yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:"
You can not have a beginning without an end. You can not have an end without a beginning. Adam and Eve were a new beginning. But they were also the end of a work that God had been doing for a very long time. Hunter gathers were coming to an end. Food producers were beginning.
In Genesis chapter one man was told to: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it". That is exactly what he did. Around 40,000 years ago man came up out of Africa. He had a sowing needle and he could make clothing so he could move north into the colder climates. He took over the area that Neanderthal man was in. Over time Neanderthals went into extinction. Eventually He spread to the whole world. Just as God commanded him to do.
Gen 1:27
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it;
The question for Science is when was the beginning of farming, when was the beginning of civilization. When and where did man settle down and build cities. The answers we find follows the Bible exactly. Farming began in the Tigris - Euphrates river valley in the middle east.
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The name of the third river is Hiddekel (Tigris); it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. 15 Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
What does this mean that God: "took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it"? Science answers all of these questions. God used the earth to create man. Science will tell you all of the exact elements from the earth that we find in man. We can trace the light from the sun. WE can see how the plants take light and they make oxygen and food for man to eat. Man on day five could not survive if it were not for the plants and animals that God made on day four. They could not survive if it were not for the work God did on day one, two and three. All of this can be found in hundreds of thousands of Science books that shows us HOW God did what He did.
John tells us that every book in the world would not be enough to tell us of all that Jesus did. God is infinite so all the books in the world could not begin to tell the story. Every book that science has ever written is barely a beginning to tell the story of what God has done.
John 21 25 "And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even
the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen."
We live in a day and age of specialists. People have to learn and study all their life just to learn a tiny little bit to make a living. Doctors specialize. There are more then one specialty for the heart. ONE does the electrical, the other does the mechanical. I studied theater in college so I was trained to work on the electrical lighting crew for the state ballet company. Everyone has something they train for and specialize in. I know a girl that works on an ultrasound machine. The machine itself is simple enough but the body is very complicated. So they have to train for different area of the body.
People want a quick fast easy story but it is not all so fast and it is not all so easy. It takes a lot of time, effort and study to understand what God is doing and what is really going on. I have been doing this for 50 years and I still am just beginning. I am just getting started. There are people that spend 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week to read and study their Bible. AT the end of their life they are just getting started. Maybe they have one book they produced to show the life time of work they did.
