Adam and Eve Ancient Folktale

Originally posted by Titen-Sxull
reply to post by NoJoker13

 

The story might be a metaphor for our evolution from unthinking ape to ultimately intelligent creature, a story about our transfer from primitive culture to the more advanced civilizations that began sprouting up around 10,000 years ago.

Where is the proof that we evolved from unthinking apes when we still have unthinking apes on this planet today. If we "evolved" from apes then there wouldn't be any unthinking apes around because we.. evolved, right?

If we evolved why does every language have root words from other languages? If we evolved millions of years ago there would be multiple languages with minimal to no resemblance at all. Not to mention each language has about the same number of words give or take 50-100 for tri-literal or 3 letter words, for example.

What in reason teaches us, if we evolved, that an animal sacrifice is the proper way to worship God? How does unassisted reason deduce that properly worshiping God is done by sacrificing a sheep (Lamb). No race of monkey-man could have invented the idea.

The early civilization of man points to his creation, not his evolution. Evolution requires many centers of civilization; creation, only one. Of course, if man is descended from an ancient ape like form, and from the Primates and their brute progeny, he must have been as uncivilized and brutish as any baboon or gorilla today, or the apes, which last year, horribly mangled the children at Sierra Leone. He must have worked his way up into civilization. The records, as far back as they go, prove that the original condition of man was a state of civilization, not savagery. Man fell down, not up.

Prof. J. Arthur Thompson, of Aberdeen, an evolutionist, says: "Modern research is leading us away from the picture of primitive man as brutish, dull, lascivious and bellicose. There is more justification for regarding primitive man as clever, kindly, adventurous and inventive." The assertion that man was originally a brute, savage and uncivilized is pure fiction, unsupported by the facts.

The unity of the human race is further established by Mendel's Inheritance Discovery on which evolutionists so much rely. G. Mendel, an experimenter, found that when he crossed a giant variety of peas with a dwarf variety, the offspring were all tall. The giants were called "dominant"; the disappearing dwarfs, "recessive". But among the second generation of this giant offspring, giants and dwarfs appeared in the proportion of 3 to 1. But when these dwarfs were self-fertilized, successive generations were all dwarfs. The recessive character was not lost, but appeared again.

Following analogy, we ought to look for a tribe of human beings that had degenerated into apes. That we find no such recessive characteristics even among the most degenerate savages, and no such ape-like tribe of human beings, is a decisive proof that man never descended from the brute. Else such recessive characteristics, according to the Mendelian Law, would be sure to appear. We would also find monkeys and apes--the recessive species--descended from man.

There is other things that atheists enjoy saying but I don't feel like writing 40 posts. Ask, however, and you shall receive.