Hey All:
I've been thinking about this one. Maybe the bible and evolution have something in common. By this I mean a seeming agreement between what scientists say occured at the beginning of the NEolithic revoultion. The Neolithic revolution is of course the period of time when man began to leave off from hunter-gathering to producing food primarily by domesticating certain plants and animals. This seems to have happened abruptly according to most available scientific evidence.
Now peep this! In the book of Genesis Adam and Eve were alone in the garden of Eden. They, as far as we know, did no farming for food. They simply tended to the garden of Eden, named a few animals a day perhaps and anything else God had them doing. The only food they ate was that which they gathered from the trees in the garden of Eden. Now, they didn't hunt either I know, but that is an eerie similarity to me. Except fot the hunting part it seems they were still pretty much the hunter gatherer types. It's not a stretch to say that they probably moved around the garden eating until all the food in an area was consumed by themselves and the animals, then moved on. That sounds a lot like the way scientists say ppl lived before the Neolithic revolution.
Then abruptly, Adam and Eve suffer the Fall. They are now thrown out of the garden and recieve a lifestyle change along with the new locale. God now curses Adam and tells him he will have to farm and raise his own food. Even though he now has to toil, it would be made harder because the ground was cursed and his efforts would be hampered by this. Just like in the Genesis account scientists nowadays are beginning to doubt whether the switch from food foraging to food production was really benficial to humans in the long run. Food production brought along with it the first truly sedentary lifestyles(as compared with hunter gatherers), larger populations(which lead to greater stress on the environment and turned the periodic failure of crops into major catastrophes), and the subsequent close contact with animals made the human population subsceptible to a host of new diseases, many of which we still suffer from today.
Some may see it as a stretch of the imagination. However, when you read through the lines, strip away all the details and look at the circumstances, alot of it seems to be awfully similar. What do you guys think?
Thanks in advance for any comments.
ONE....
bigboi
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