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In the beginning it was dark and cold. There was no sun, no light, no earth, There was nothing, just the empty void of space. Gen 1:2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Gen 1:3 Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. Gen 1:4 God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. Gen 1:5 God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. What was this light? It was not the sun as the sun and moon was not created until after the 3rd day according to Gen 1:13 and 1:14. Gen 1:13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day. Gen 1:14 Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; Gen 1:15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so. So if this is the sun being created on the third day that separated day from night, how is it claimed in Genesis 1:5 that there was evening and there was morning, one day? Because God said so? Because God can do anything? We all want the answers! Many of us believe that the Bible is true and has the answers. Don't get me wrong . . . I believe in God and I believe in The Bible; however, I also believe there is more to the Bible that is not put into The Bible. The Bible was not written as a whole, yet it is a compilation of documents discovered over years. As it is a compilation of documents, it is ONLY documents found fit to make The Bible as there are numerous documents that speak of the same occurrences yet are found to be NOT JUST! Take for example the Book of Enoch; Enoch, a Man who walked with God (Gen 5:24) wrote of The Flood in Genesis 7. Yet, you do not find his book in The Bible. Another example is The Book of Jasher as it is mentioned in Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18 from The Bible; The Book of Jasher however is not found in The Bible. The Book of Genesis in regards to Creation is entirely impossible to have been written and acknowledged, as NOBODY was around to witness it. It was not written by Adam or Eve; it is believed to have been written by Moses. However, Moses could have interpreted onto papyrus what information was passed on from Adam to Noah, to the sons of Noah, to Shem, Terah, Isaac and Ishmael, Esau and Jacob as perhaps to believed as:
Gen. 2:5-5:2 Tablet written by or
belonging to Adam The information from Adam to Moses could easily be inspired by beliefs at the time of Adams days and how Creation was made and not necessarily Adam's actual words of him and his wife being the first man and woman; however that is the way Moses understood it or continued a belief adding his own interpretations as there is evidence that Moses took the earlier documents of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Enoch, Isaac, and Jacob, these documents that were passed on from one generation to the next, and put them together into one book called the BOOK OF GENESIS! After many excavations in the Middle East, archaeologists have found Ancient writings called "cuneiform" writings that date back all the way to 3500 B.C. Adam was still alive at that time, and so writing could have gone back even farther. So Adam could have composed his eyewitness account of the Garden of Eden. As stated above; the information from Adam to Moses could easily be inspired by beliefs at the time of Adams days and how Creation was made as The Epic of Gilgamesh has similar verses as Genesis. The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest substantial poem that has survived from antiquity, an Assyrian recession dating from the 7th century bc found on clay tablets in the ruins of the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, Iraq. The subject of the epic is man's conquest of his environment and his quest for the secret of immortality. The hero is Gilgamesh, the lord of Uruk, and his friend the beastman Enkidu. Nobody knows who wrote The Epic of Gilgamesh, however, man seems to have been around since 4.4 million B.C. as earliest known hominid fossils (Ardipithecus ramidus) are found in Aramis, Ethiopia, 1994. 4.2 million B.C. Australopithecus anamensis found in Lake Turkana, Kenya, 1995. 3.2 million B.C. Australopithecus afarenis (nicknamed "Lucy") found in Ethiopia, 1974. 2.5 million B.C. Homo habilis ("Skillful Man"). First brain expansion; is believed to have used stone tools. And then there was the first known ice age to occur 2.3 billion BC and lasts for 350 million years. Highly improbable that any of the Genesis or Epic of Gilgamesh came from such a time as any documented information would be deeply buried or ruined. Approximately 1 Million BC the FIRST MAN - HOMO ERECTUS EMERGES. Around 130,000 - 100,000 BC first anatomically modern humans appear in Africa and migrate across Asia, eventually displacing other hominid species. 70,000 B.C. the Neanderthal man appears. 40,000 BC man advances in hunting skill and technology allowing humans to hunt larger animals. Boats invented. Modern humans first appear in Europe and Australia. 35,000 BC Neanderthal man replaced by later groups of Homo sapiens Humans begin to populate Tasmania and eventually become isolated from peoples in Australia, probably from rising ocean as Ice Age ends. At sometime between 40,000 and 10,000 B.C. human hunting groups occupied all the main land masses of earth except Antarctica. Men reached America about 20,000 B.C. (perhaps earlier) from Asia over a land bridge between Asia and Alaska, varying from three hundred to one thousand miles wide and apparently including the Aleutian Islands where blades and burins, perhaps dating back to 10,000 B.C. have been found. Otherwise the earliest known cultures of the American far north have not been well dated. The so-called British Mountain Culture near the Yukon Arctic coast is probably the oldest, with artifacts of eastern Siberia, including crude instruments and shaping tools. There, in the Old Crow Basin, the first known occupation site in the New World has been tentatively carbon-dated to 25,000 B.C. But the Bible according to Genesis and it's Genealogy, claims man began around 4000 BC. As The Book of Genesis in The Bible tells of 2 different accounts of creation, I believe it is simply folk lore which could have probably derived from The Story of Gilgamesh. Back to the "Light". Way back before the solar system was formed it was just a huge cloud of dust and gas floating in space. The natural attraction of gravity caused the dust to start whirling around a central lump. This lump collected more and more matter until it became so large that the force of its own gravity crushing down on its middle caused the center to ignite in a nuclear fire. Our sun was being born! The remaining cloud of dust was now spinning around the sun. But gravity was still in operation inside the dust cloud. Over time the tiny flecks of cloud began to clump together once more, making marble-size lumps, then basketball-sized lumps . . . all the way up to planet-sized lumps. Over a certain size the biggest lumps had enough gravitational attraction on their own to mop up the remaining dust and gas by adding it to themselves. One of those lumps, still spinning around the sun, is where you are now standing. Earth! It is generally thought that the sun and solar system coalesced out of diffuse gas in the milky way about 4.6-4.4 billion years ago, with most of the mass (99.98%) ending up in the sun. The sun is known to be a population 2 star -- i.e. its spectra shows traces of many elements other than hydrogen and helium so it is almost certainly made up of gas mixed with debris from earlier stars. (It is believed that all elements beyond iron are formed only in such colossal explosions). Although there are many views about why the gas collapsed, it is known that the sun is inside of a supernova blast sphere, formed when a super nova exploded eons ago. Such explosions can cause local high density regions within which stars can form. You can see newly formed stars as bright open clusters --with the Pleiades (the seven sisters) and the big dipper association as the easiest and the Orion nebula group as the newest easily seen. Although 4. 5 billion years seems very long, astronomers now routinely find galaxies whose light has been enroute to us for far longer. Most theories place the formation of the Milky Way at least 12 billion years ago -- so there has been lots of time for the universe to build stars which died before the sun formed. Around 3 billion B.C. First signs of primeval life (bacteria and blue-green algae) appear in oceans. Around 2 billion B.C. somehow, as the primitive ocean organisms developed, one managed to develop a molecule that could use the energy of sunlight to produce food for itself. Sunlight, water, carbon dioxide and simple inorganic elements were all that was needed to sustain itself. No longer did ocean creatures have to eat other ocean creatures to survive. This was the birth of the first 'autotroph', a creature that could manufacture its own food. The plant was born and the process of photosynthesis had begun. 600 million B.C. is the earliest date to which fossils can be traced. Evidence proves man has been around WAY before the Bible claims.
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