What did Adam and Eve look like?

[ozso]

Genesis 2:10-14 puts the Garden of Eden in the Middle East, somewhere near the north part of the Persian Gulf where the Euphrates and Tigris rivers emerge, which would be near Kuwait. So it can be surmised Adam and Eve probably looked Palestinian.

Also I figure they spoke Hebrew or close to it, as it's referred to as the Holy Language.

I also figure considering they had lifespans of 900+ years, they and their immediate descendants were probably physiologically superior to contemporary humans. I picture them as being around 7 feet (2.1 meters) tall.

 

[AV1611VET]

Genesis 2:10-14 puts the Garden of Eden in the Middle East, somewhere near the north part of the Persian Gulf where the Euphrates and Tigris rivers emerge, which would be near Kuwait. So it can be surmised Adam and Eve probably looked Palestinian.

Seeing as how the Palestinians came from the Philistines, I find that a little hard to take.

 

[ozso]

Seeing as how the Palestinians came from the Philistines, I find that a little hard to take.

I'm talking about the physical appearance of people in the Middle East. Jews, Arabs, Turks, Persians etc.

 

[Shemjaza]

I didn't say one word about Neanderthal, did I?

Instead, I showed a picture of Cookii -- not even the same kind (genus) as Neanderthal either.

What gives here?

Except it's not really. The artist based the appearance entirely on already discovered hominids such as Neanderthal.

The only connection between the picture and the tooth was the assumption that it was from an extinct hominid.

Only because you can't trace their DNA back that far.

Science is myopic.

That would be impossible as in the Creationist scenario human DNA has been heavily modified by untraceable miraculous events so conventional forensics wouldn't work.

Not helped by all artifacts and writing from the Antediluvian age being modified or destroyed.

HALLEUJAH!

Finally! A light bulb comes on!

Kudos to you, chief! Your elevator goes all the way to the attic!

It renders discussions about evidence pointless... but many Creationists initially behave as if evidence is their justification for their belief.

 

[Bungle_Bear]

Since a picture is worth a thousand words, this says a lot.

What's that old saying?

"I heard and I forgot. I saw and I remembered. I did and I understood."

After this thing made the headlines, it reinforced to a "sleeping public" that evolution is alive and well on Planet Earth, and that there are "missing links" in the earth, awaiting discovery.

Then, after the public had been "jolted awake," scientists discovered it was a mistake.

But the damage had been done by giving the public -- us commoners -- a taste of what evolution is.

You seem to be confusing "artist" with "scientist". I know you will stoop to pretty much any depth in order to sling mud at science, but claiming artists to be scientists is a real stretch.

Perhaps you should be honest enough to include Smith's own commentary (which accompanied the picture when it was published in 1922):
"Mr. Forestier has made a remarkable sketch to convey some idea of the possibilities suggested by this discovery. As we know nothing of the creature's form, his reconstruction is merely the expression of an artist's brilliant imaginative genius. But if, as the peculiarities of the tooth suggest, Hesperopithecus was a primitive forerunner of Pithecanthropus, he may have been a creature such as Mr. Forestier has depicted."

 

[ozso]

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[AV1611VET]

I'm talking about the physical appearance of people in the Middle East. Jews, Arabs, Turks, Persians etc.

Okay.

 

[Astrid]

Genesis 2:10-14 puts the Garden of Eden in the Middle East, somewhere near the north part of the Persian Gulf where the Euphrates and Tigris rivers emerge, which would be near Kuwait. So it can be surmised Adam and Eve probably looked Palestinian.

Also I figure they spoke Hebrew or close to it, as it's referred to as the Holy Language.

I also figure considering they had lifespans of 900+ years, they and their immediate descendants were probably physiologically superior to contemporary humans. I picture them as being around 7 feet (2.1 meters) tall.

Superior in so many ways, they'd need titanium
carbide teeth to last that long.

 

[Astrid]

Except it's not really. The artist based the appearance entirely on already discovered hominids such as Neanderthal.

The only connection between the picture and the tooth was the assumption that it was from an extinct hominid.



That would be impossible as in the Creationist scenario human DNA has been heavily modified by untraceable miraculous events so conventional forensics wouldn't work.

Not helped by all artifacts and writing from the Antediluvian age being modified or destroyed.



It renders discussions about evidence pointless... but many Creationists initially behave as if evidence is their justification for their belief.

The virtue of belief despite all evidence is the essence of creationism

 

[AV1611VET]

The virtue of belief despite all evidence is the essence of creationism.

Yup.

Faith is believing something, even when science says otherwise.

 

[Bobber]

What did Adam & Eve look like? My parents and their parents before them and others before them too. No matter how far back you go back you can see somewhat of a resemblance.

 

[SavedByGrace3]

The children of Adam merged their genetics with that of the man that evolved from the beasts and were made into the image of the gods. After that, for the purpose of race, we have to say that we are all descendants of Noah. Noah, I believe, was free of the genetic manipulation and mutation that took place in the hundreds of years before the flood. However, this is not true for his wife, his children, and certainly not his son's wifes. So by the time we get to the Tower of Babel, we are talking about a genetic pool that is far from Adam and Eve.
But the race of Adam was the race of God. His color was likely on the reddish side. If I recall he was formed from red clay. In fact I think the word "adam" means red.