Early Anatomically Modern Humans Found in Israel: A Christian Perspective

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Early Anatomically Modern Humans Found in Israel: A Christian Perspective

I'm a little confused. How many toes is that? 6 or 7?

Oh! They're supposed to be teeth.

I've heard lots of rubbish about "pre-Adamites" and even more ridiculous ideas but there's nothing about that in The Bible and in fact when The Creator spoke to us we were left in no doubt as to the origin of humans.

[Basilissa]

This story broke out a couple of days ago:

Researchers have identified the remains of the earliest known modern humans to have left Africa.
New dating of fossils from Israel indicates that our species (Homo sapiens) lived outside Africa around 185,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than the previous evidence.
Details appear in the journal Science.
The co-lead researcher, Prof Israel Hershkovitz, told BBC News that the discovery would fundamentally alter ideas of recent human evolution.
"We have to rewrite the whole story of human evolution, not just for our own species but all the other species that lived outside of Africa at the time," the researcher, from Tel Aviv University, explained.
Prof Chris Stringer of London's Natural History Museum, who was not involved in the study, said: "The find breaks the long-established 130,000-year-old limit on modern humans outside of Africa.

Now, there are some obvious mistakes within this news story. First, the dates are off - any date before the creation of the universe 6,000 years ago is an obvious miscalculation.

Second, as any person familiar with the Holy Bible can tell you, the presence of early humans in the Middle East has nothing to do with evolution, but everything to do with people being expelled from the Garden of Eden and wondering the land helplessly.

Despite these weaknesses, which are derived from following the scientific paradigm (based on evidence and such) rather than the Biblical paradigm (based on the True Word of God), this story is truly tantalizing. Is it possible that archaeologists have stumbled upon the bones of our earliest ancestors - Adam or Eve or Seth? Or maybe this is the body of Abel slain by Cain? I wish it were the bones of Enos son of Seth - a genetic testing of these bones maybe could help us determine if Seth begat Enos with an unnamed sister of his, or with his mother Eve!

I certainly hope that Christian Bible-based research will be conducted on these findings, allowing us to have an answer for the above questions - rather than wasting taxpayers' money on all of that evolution stuff.