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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_%28genus%29#Species

There's just a few of them.

I mean the almost humans, that are very close like us but not quite . You know the little step that would that would separates us from them. They should be around also. Where are they?

If I was psychic, I could tell you.

Maybe the scientists should get one of those also.

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Are you saying they would not be human anymore. Where are the almost humans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_%28genus%29#Species

There's just a few of them.

what are humans turning into so that they are no longer human?

If I was psychic, I could tell you.

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And why are you so concerned about looking in the Bible? When was the last time you read the Enuma Elis?

Revelation 17:1-5 (King James Version)

Revelation 17

1And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:

2With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

3So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

4And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

5And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.


No thanks I'm not interested in that. That is the cause of the world we see now. Don't you think we've seen enough of that?

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Now you're changing what the Bible says in order to make things more convenient to you. The Bible says He MADE them on the 4th day. Not made them visible.

Genesis 1: 16And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

And .*.*. proceeded to make.” Heb., wai‧ya′ʽas (from ʽa‧sah′). Different from “create” (ba‧raʼ′) found in vss 1, 21, 27; 2:3. Progressive action indicated by the imperfect state.

So what this scripture is actually saying, he made the sun and moon and stars , to be seen , he didn't create them at that time.

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To fit all the creatures of the world in their boat; 2.8 species million at present estimate, times 2 (for he took 2 of each) would have needed room for an estimated 5.6 million animals. This vessel would need to divide the carnivores form the vegetarians, the predators from the prey. No owl could eat a mouse, no spider a fly, no lion a lamb.

Talking to zoologists I am informed it takes an average of 0.01588 acres to house and 0.0053 tonnes of food per week to feed per animal averaging from the largest to the smallest. Putting the animals in a double deck, and the people on a third deck, allowing room for 170,000 tonnes of food (40 days supply) and 33,000 people to feed and clean out the quarters would require a vessel 3 kilometres wide by 28 kilometres long and 3 storeys high (the size of a small city) made of timber, (ok 2 storeys high if you leave out the 33,000 farmhands). And it would need to float. This is an impossible engineering feat. How did Noah & his family manage it?

The Encyclopedia Americana indicate that there are upwards of 1,300,000 species of animals. (1977, Vol. 1, pp. 859-873) However, over 60 percent of these are insects. Breaking these figures down further, of the 24,000 amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, 10,000 are birds, 9,000 are reptiles and amphibians, many of which could have survived outside the ark, and only 5,000 are mammals, including whales and porpoises, which would have also remained outside the ark. Other researchers estimate that there are only about 290 species of land mammals larger than sheep and about 1,360 smaller than rats. (The Deluge Story in Stone, by B.*C. Nelson, 1949, p. 156; The Flood in the Light of the Bible, Geology, and Archaeology, by A.*M. Rehwinkel, 1957, p.*69) So, even if estimates are based on these expanded figures, the ark could easily have accommodated a pair of all these animals.

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So you believe in a literal flood?

The Flood has me puzzled. The Torah sets the event around 2300BC (i.e. after the original Gilgamesh account on which it was based was actually written). The devastation left only 8 people on Earth. These were Noah, his wife, 3 sons and their wives. However historical records before and after that date indicate flourishing civilisations in China, India and Egypt.

Since the Bible points to the year 2370*B.C.E. as the date of the global Flood, There are problems in Egyptian chronology.e doubtless responsible for the figures advanced by modern historians who would run Egyptian history all the way back to the year 3000*B.C.E.


The problem with secular histories do not qualify as the standard of accuracy by which to judge Bible chronology is this statement by archaeological writer C.*W. Ceram, commenting on the modern science of historical dating: “Anyone approaching the study of ancient history for the first time must be impressed by the positive way modern historians date events which took place thousands of years ago. In the course of further study this wonder will, if anything, increase. For as we examine the sources of ancient history we see how scanty, inaccurate, or downright false, the records were even at the time they were first written. And poor as they originally were, they are poorer still as they have come down to us: half destroyed by the tooth of time or by the carelessness and rough usage of men.” He further describes the framework of chronological history as “a purely hypothetical structure, and one which threatens to come apart at every joint.”—The Secret of the Hittites, 1956, pp. 133, 134.


The Bible is a historical book, preeminently so among ancient writings. The histories of the ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes, Persians, and others are, in the main, fragmentary; their earlier periods are either obscure or, as presented by them, obviously mythical. Thus, the ancient document known as The Sumerian King List begins: “When kingship was lowered from heaven, kingship was (first) in Eridu. (In) Eridu, A-lulim (became) king and ruled 28,800 years. Alalgar ruled 36,000 years. Two kings (thus) ruled it for 64,800 years.*.*.*. (In) Bad-tibira, En-men-lu-Anna ruled 43,200 years; En-men-gal-Anna ruled 28,800 years; the god Dumu-zi, a shepherd, ruled 36,000 years. Three kings (thus) ruled it for 108,000 years.”—Ancient Near Eastern Texts, edited by J.*B. Pritchard, 1974, p. 265

W.*G. Waddell, said the quotations of Manetho’s writings are fragmentary and often distorted and hence “it is extremely difficult to reach certainty in regard to what is authentic Manetho and what is spurious or corrupt.” After showing that Manetho’s source material included some unhistorical traditions and legends that “introduced kings as their heroes, without regard to chronological order,” he says: “There were many errors in Manetho’s work from the very beginning: all are not due to the perversions of scribes and revisers. Many of the lengths of reigns have been found impossible: in some cases the names and the sequence of kings as given by Manetho have proved untenable in the light of monumental evidence.”—Manetho, introduction, pp. vii, xvii, xx, xxi, xxv

It is very hard to trust , the dating of the materials in earlier civilisation. because of using different methods of dating. And is very fragmented, and inaccurate.

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God created only one pair of each life form, according to you. He set them up to keep making more, on their own. And these change. Like you admitted above. They adapt and change in order to survive. That's the theory of evolution.

That is adaptation, and natural section.

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Yes. You believe that all the changes in the races happened within only a relatively small time frame (We can see from ancient artwork that the inhabitants of Africa, Asia, and Europe already looked the way they did thousands of years ago). So, how much more would they change if this kept going for a million years? A billion years?

Are you saying they would not be human anymore. Where are the almost humans and what are humans turning into so that they are no longer human?

Changing and adaptation is all evolution means. Now you've got it. It has nothing to do with how life was started. There's no evidence about that, so nobody can make a scientific claim about that at present.

Does 'evolution' to you also mean intelligent 'evolution' like a program 'evolved' over time?
But ofcourse it didn't go on for a billion years.

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Hi Bogdana

Of course there are changes over long periods of time. In humans we adapt, we also breed with ones that live near us, and in some cases if we are isolated from other humans we can developed quite strong characteristics.

Yes. You believe that all the changes in the races happened within only a relatively small time frame (We can see from ancient artwork that the inhabitants of Africa, Asia, and Europe already looked the way they did thousands of years ago). So, how much more would they change if this kept going for a million years? A billion years?

We also see where virus's change and adapt and even become drug resistant. Life was designed to survive.

Changing and adaptation is all evolution means. Now you've got it. It has nothing to do with how life was started. There's no evidence about that, so nobody can make a scientific claim about that at present.

No it is not my view that life was to start on it's own. God created different forms of life.

God created only one pair of each life form, according to you. He set them up to keep making more, on their own. And these change. Like you admitted above. They adapt and change in order to survive. That's the theory of evolution.

As for races of people, after the flood and Noah and his sons, came out of the ark. The bible mentions 70 families. But just starting from 3 Sons.

So you believe in a literal flood?

The Flood has me puzzled. The Torah sets the event around 2300BC (i.e. after the original Gilgamesh account on which it was based was actually written). The devastation left only 8 people on Earth. These were Noah, his wife, 3 sons and their wives. However historical records before and after that date indicate flourishing civilisations in China, India and Egypt.

To achieve this feat Noahs sons and their wives would have had to reproduce at an alarming rate following the flood, perhaps a million children per couple. These children would have to take on the physical appearance, language, religions, customs, infrastructure, technology and geographical location of the civilizations wiped out in the flood. They would have to discover and settle in Western Europe, Egypt and the Mediterranean, China, India, Sub Saharan Africa, North and South America and various peripheries of these places. Some of them would have to re-invent gunpowder and currency while others would have to forget the invention of the wheel and writing (and of course Yahweh). All of this would have to happen in the space of a decade or so. According the Genesis however Noah had only 14 grandchildren."


Ok maybe the Jews got the date wrong. I hope you can explain. But theres another problem.

To fit all the creatures of the world in their boat; 2.8 species million at present estimate, times 2 (for he took 2 of each) would have needed room for an estimated 5.6 million animals. This vessel would need to divide the carnivores form the vegetarians, the predators from the prey. No owl could eat a mouse, no spider a fly, no lion a lamb.

Talking to zoologists I am informed it takes an average of 0.01588 acres to house and 0.0053 tonnes of food per week to feed per animal averaging from the largest to the smallest. Putting the animals in a double deck, and the people on a third deck, allowing room for 170,000 tonnes of food (40 days supply) and 33,000 people to feed and clean out the quarters would require a vessel 3 kilometres wide by 28 kilometres long and 3 storeys high (the size of a small city) made of timber, (ok 2 storeys high if you leave out the 33,000 farmhands). And it would need to float. This is an impossible engineering feat. How did Noah & his family manage it?

In the creation account, God said he made the heavens and the earth before even the creative days on earth. So the sun and stars were already there.

Now you're changing what the Bible says in order to make things more convenient to you. The Bible says He MADE them on the 4th day. Not made them visible.

Genesis 1: 16And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.



If you can take the Bible figuratively here, why can you not take it figuratively in other places?


After all, if you read the Bible carefully, you see it does not say God MADE the plants and animals. It only says that He told the earth to bring forth life.



And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree. -- Genesis 1:11


And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. -- Genesis 1:24

But those evil scientists are trying to get you look elsewhere , any place except the bible.

Except for the ones that believe in the Bible also, right?
Evolution, Religion, and Creationism



And why are you so concerned about looking in the Bible? When was the last time you read the Enuma Elis?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En%C3%BBma_Eli%C5%A1

It is a Babylonian myth, and it is older the book of Genesis. It has a very similar story to Genesis 1, so scholars believe that the writer of Genesis was inspired by this story. But it also has important difference. For one thing, it talks about the existence of many different gods. Why should I believe your Bible over this story?

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Okay, so life is exactly as it was when it was created? So that means all living creatures today were taken from the dirt and breathed life into, (except for female humans, who are all created from the ribs of their husband)?

No, everything alive today is here because an organism with different characteristics gave birth to it. In your view, God set up a natural process for life to continue to start life on its own. The small differences we see in one generation to the next will inevitably turn into a huge difference over millions of generations.

Why do you think people get new flu vaccines every year? Is this a government conspiracy?

What, all scientists? Even astronomers, chemists, mathematicians, physicists, psychologists, social scientists? You don't seem to have a very good handle on what a scientist is...

Can I ask - why do you think that black people come from Africa? White people from Europe? Asians from Asia? If we all descend from the same two people, shouldn't we all be the same race? Or have the races changed over time?

Why are there so many animals that only live in Australia, that are so different from the animals we see in different parts of the world? Why did God decide to fill this island with animals that the rest of the world doesn't have?

And what about stars? The Bible says God made all of the stars on the fourth day of creation, after the earth was made. But astronomers tell us that many stars existed long before the earth, that new stars are constantly being formed, and that it takes millions of years for the necessary gases to finally become a star. Are the evil scientists lying about this too?

Hi Bogdana

Of course there are changes over long periods of time. In humans we adapt, we also breed with ones that live near us, and in some cases if we are isolated from other humans we can developed quite strong characteristics.
We also see where virus's change and adapt and even become drug resistant. Life was designed to survive.
No it is not my view that life was to start on it's own. God created different forms of life.
Not all life changed very much , mosquito's are much different at all for a long time back.

As for races of people, after the flood and Noah and his sons, came out of the ark. The bible mentions 70 families. But just starting from 3 Sons.

JAPHETH GOMER Cimmerians, N of Black Sea
Aryan Branch of Speech: ASHKENAZ SE of Black Sea
Indo-European (14 families) RIPHATH Paphlagonians
TOGARMAH Armenians
MAGOG
MADAI Medes, S of Caspian Sea
JAVAN Ionians, Greeks of SE Europe
ELISHAH Near Greece
TARSHISH Pre-Spanish in SW Europe
KITTIM Cyprus
DODANIM (RODANIM) Island of Rhodes
and Aegean Islands
TUBAL Tibareni, in Asia Minor
MESHECH Phrygians of Asia Minor
TIRAS Tyrrhenians, of the Aegean
Islands and Coastlands

HAM Hamitic Branch of CUSH Ethiopians in E Africa and
Speech: Afro-Asiatic Arabia
(30 families) SEBA In E Africa
HAVILAH In SW Arabia
SABTAH In S Arabia
RAAMAH In SW Arabia
SHEBA In SW Arabia
DEDAN In Arabia
SABTECA In S Arabia or Ethiopia
MIZRAIM Egyptians
LUDIM In N Africa
ANAMIM In Egypt
LEHABIM Libyans
NAPHTUHIM In N Egypt
PATHRUSIM In Upper Egypt
CASLUHIM
PHILISTINES Coastal Plain of
Palestine
CAPHTORIM Cretans
PUT In N Africa
CANAAN W of Jordan River
SIDON Sidonians (Phoenicians)
HETH Hittites
JEBUSITE Around early Jerusalem
AMORITE In Palestine
GIRGASHITE W of Jordan River
HIVITE Central Palestine
ARKITE W of the Lebanon Mountains
SINITE
ARVADITE Island off Syrian Coast
ZEMARITE N Phoenician Coast
HAMATHITE N of Palestine

SHEM Semitic Branch of ELAM SE of Mesopotamia
Speech: Asiatic ASSHUR Assyrians
(26 families) ARPACHSHAD
SHELAH
EBER In Arabia and Mesopotamia
PELEG
JOKTAN Arabians
ALMODAD
SHELEPH
HAZARMAVETH
JERAH
HADORAM
UZAL
DIKLAH
OBAL
ABIMAEL
SHEBA
OPHIR
HAVILAH
JOBAB
LUD Lydians of Asia Minor
ARAM Aramaeans, Syrians
UZ
HUL Near Armenia
GETHER
MASH Syro-Arabian Desert or
N Mesopotamia


These families would inter breed thus developing quite distinct characteristics.
Also these families were much closer to perfection than we are, today. Before the flood people lived around 900 years or so.

As for animal distribution after the flood we are not told how or what God did. But he did bring the animals to Noah, so it is very possible God had some hand in distributing animals after the flood.
In the creation account, God said he made the heavens and the earth before even the creative days on earth. So the sun and stars were already there.

The six creative days.
1 Light; division between day and night Ge 1:3-5
2 Expanse, a division between waters
beneath the expanse and waters above it Ge 1:6-8
3 Dry land; vegetation Ge 1:9-13
4 Heavenly luminaries become discernible
from earth Ge 1:14-19
5 Aquatic souls and flying creatures Ge 1:20-23
6 Land animals; man Ge 1:24-31

So the stars were created the same time as the universe, but only became visible on the 4th day. This would have been because of thick water in the atmosphere mentioned in the 2nd creative day. Somewhat like a very heavy overcast day we get today. Where we could neither see the sun during the day or stars at night.

Are the evil scientists lying about this too?

But those evil scientists are trying to get you look elsewhere , any place except the bible.

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Like I said before, the scientists may not talk about a connection or think about as though the start to life and evolution are connected.
But the reality is, they are. Life comes from life they are connected. What happens at the start to life affects all life.

Okay, so life is exactly as it was when it was created? So that means all living creatures today were taken from the dirt and breathed life into, (except for female humans, who are all created from the ribs of their husband)?

No, everything alive today is here because an organism with different characteristics gave birth to it. In your view, God set up a natural process for life to continue to start life on its own. The small differences we see in one generation to the next will inevitably turn into a huge difference over millions of generations.

Why do you think people get new flu vaccines every year? Is this a government conspiracy?

The scientists,

What, all scientists? Even astronomers, chemists, mathematicians, physicists, psychologists, social scientists? You don't seem to have a very good handle on what a scientist is...

And no we don't know exactly what a kind is( how encompassing). But then neither do the scientists know what a species is. So it's kind of hard to compare the two.

Can I ask - why do you think that black people come from Africa? White people from Europe? Asians from Asia? If we all descend from the same two people, shouldn't we all be the same race? Or have the races changed over time?

Why are there so many animals that only live in Australia, that are so different from the animals we see in different parts of the world? Why did God decide to fill this island with animals that the rest of the world doesn't have?

And what about stars? The Bible says God made all of the stars on the fourth day of creation, after the earth was made. But astronomers tell us that many stars existed long before the earth, that new stars are constantly being formed, and that it takes millions of years for the necessary gases to finally become a star. Are the evil scientists lying about this too?

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No. No it does not. Have you read the Origin of Species? Not once, not once, NOT ONCE does it say ANYTHING about how life started. Evolution does not talk about how life was created. Just like meteorology does not talk about where water came from. It just helps us study when it's going to rain.



What happens when the species slowly changes over billions of years?

Like I said before, the scientists may not talk about a connection or think about as though the start to life and evolution are connected.
But the reality is, they are. Life comes from life they are connected. What happens at the start to life affects all life.
The scientists, have created this is idea that the start life and the rest of life is separate. Assuming , that the start to life is from non creation. Because the 'evolution theory' doesn't explain the start to life, they have to make it 2 separate events.
The bible says God made life according to it's kind. So dogkind ( kinds of dogs) ,or birdkind ( or kinds of birds), or mankind. There was a separate creation for kinds of life. And each of these kinds has a large variety. Often because of natural breeding or intelligent breeding ( man making a poodle). A certain line or breed of dog may die out and so the line goes in a different direction., over time. Thus we have large variety, of dogs.
But dogs always remain dogs.
This idea of 'evolution' doesn't exists except in the minds of the scientists. No scientists no 'evolution'. No two events.

And no we don't know exactly what a kind is( how encompassing). But then neither do the scientists know what a species is. So it's kind of hard to compare the two.

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'Evolution' as the scientists are saying , demands that there was a non creative start to life.

No. No it does not. Have you read the Origin of Species? Not once, not once, NOT ONCE does it say ANYTHING about how life started. Evolution does not talk about how life was created. Just like meteorology does not talk about where water came from. It just helps us study when it's going to rain.

Because a dog gets more dogs , so all there would be is a world full of dogs, nothing else.

What happens when the species slowly changes over billions of years?

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Likewise, when I listen to the weather report on TV, the meteorologist never takes the time to explain that God is in control of the weather, and that if you pray hard enough God might change it (1 Samuel 12:18 So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day. )

When it comes to the weather , I like to ask the paper boy.

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When I go to the doctor, he never tells me that the sin of my disease is sin and that God has caused it. (If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee. --

The result of sin is imperfection. Imperfection results in, sickness and death.
It is the perfection we need re-established.
Man's minds with imperfection is bad and as we see full of wars. This can not go on forever. At some point , the people that would like to follow God and regain that perfection, have a right to have that. It's too bad but most people don't want that. So God has to step in and change things, back to the original state.
He gave man a length of time ( from Adam ) to go on their own to see how it would work out. Well we see that.
It's getting close to the time, to get a change of government ( Satan is the ruler of this world now). That is what the 'time of the end' ( Armageddon) is about.( getting rid of Satan)