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A friend was sharing about the challenge of sharing Christ with his highly educated. His brother is an Atheist and brought up objections as to the age of the Earth and human beings.I never did an in depth study of the pre-Adamite teaching. I do remember hearing about it years ago but never studied this theory enough to have a strong opinion either way.

or become dogmatic about it. Things to consider....1) The bible does not in any way teach the earth is only 6,000 years old.2) Young earth believers say that dinosaurs ran with intelligent man. However, there has never been a fossilized human skeleton found in the same ruins as any fossils we find today.3) The bible does allude to some time of creation before Adam in Ezekiel.4) You do not find too many animals today that are fossilized. It seems the fozzilized creatures such as the Wooley....saber tooth .....short horses were a prototype of what we have today.5) Science seems to suggest there were two floods. I kind of go with the gap theory between Gen 1:1-1:2. In verse 2, the Hebrew version states the earth became without form and void. Those last two terms are used in Ezekiel right after talking about cities and life. Those two terms also infer there was chaos. Which begs the question....does God create things initially in chaos.There are arguments of young earthers....1) There was no pre-adamite creation. God put those fossils there to test our faith.2) Dinosaurs died out because they were too big to enter the ark.3) Abraham ran with and rode on dinosaurs.Some old earthers say that each day with God was a billion years. I tend to believe the gap theory.Anyway, as someone who studies science and the bible, it seems that science and the bible do tend to parallel each other. God is the designer of both....why is it so hard to believe God can't cause each to agree.

23I looked at the earth,and it was formless and empty;I looked to the heavens,and they had no light.24I looked at the mountains,and behold, they were quaking;all the hills were swaying.25I looked, and no man was left;all the birds of the air had fled.26I looked, and the fertile field was a desert.All its cities were torn downbefore the LORD,before His fierce anger.27For this is what the LORD says:“The whole land will be desolate,but I will not finish its destruction.28Therefore the earth will mournand the heavens above grow dark.I have spoken, I have planned,

The earth could be very old...but humans are not

I for one believe that there is enough proof in scripture that something was going on before Adam - I don't know if it involved humans but it must have involved the ageless past ...before time was created.Gen.1:1 is quite clear that in the beginning God created the heaven & the earth. No problem there, but how much time do you think went by before vs. 2-4 kicks in?In vs. 5 He cals the light day & the evening night & this is the first day.The 2nd item was the firmament & after that was finished God called it the 2nd day.I think we might have an issue with a clock because we think this was in the timespan of our 24 hour day but I don't believe time had begun yet. In fact time isn't mentioned until chapter 4 but I do believe that time began when God removed them from the garden.My point with all of this is that during the entire portion of the creation period & the use of the word day we are marginalizing the narrative to fit into our own understanding of days & nights & clocks that use 24 hours.What if the dinosaurs roamed for several thousand years between days 1-2 or maybe between days 1-5???Me doesn't think that Adam had to battle a T-Rex or any of the sort Empty nest syndrome is for the birds!Email me at: [email protected] planters are focused on just one thing ...introducing people to Jesus!

Most respectable bible scholars believe Adam was created as a man and not as a baby. It is therefore logical to deduce that the rest of Creation came into being with built in maturity (for lack of a better word). In other words, the Garden of Eden wasn't simply rows of seeds. There were fully mature trees. It's conceivable that rock formations could have been created in the same manner. Furthermore, we are not certain what impact the catastrophic flood of Noah's day had on the entirety of the created universe.

1. Everything was created with the appearance of age.2. There cannot be an aging process without decay, there can no decay with death and there can no death without sin.3. The Pre-Adamite discussion is always made in an apologetic attempt to make the Bible line up with modern science. But Science is flawed. Even the Laws of Thermodynamics do not agree with each other.4. Heb 11:3

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3. The Pre-Adamite discussion is always made in an apologetic attempt to make the Bible line up with modern science. But Science is flawed. Even the Laws of Thermodynamics do not agree with each other.

I don't believe there has been a comment using apologetics to discuss the OP but it does seem extraordinary to believe that Adam had to deal with a T-Rex or saber tooth tiger or a pterodactyl. A solid discussion could be made to investigate the curiosities & discoveries of a possible pre-Adam existence on this planet. There probably won't be any solid proof of mankind but post Gen.1:1 & prior to the creation of Adam there had to be some dinos wondering around Empty nest syndrome is for the birds!Email me at: [email protected] planters are focused on just one thing ...introducing people to Jesus!