WHEN DID MAN BEGIN, A THEORY EDITORIAL
Strange as it may sound some people still believe that God created the Universe in 7 of our 24 hour days. They say that God made all the Dinosaur bones and fossil records and put them on earth and that Dinosaurs have never lived. I feel that every one has the right to believe as they want.
The big bang took place about 14 billion years ago as the best estimate of our limited knowledge can be. Based on this time frame, Gods day would be about 2,333,333,333, that is 2 and a third billion, of our earth years is equal to one of Gods days. His hour is 96,222,222 of our years. His minute is 1,603,703 of our years. His second is 26,726 of our years. As you can see we have only started on Gods 7th day, His day of rest.
Some estimates say that the beginning of man started about 1 million years ago. This date is established by the fact of a humans ability to create and use tools. There is no evidence that animals could have ever shaped and used crude stone tools.
As I understand it there were 2 individuals, unknown to each other, that used the birth and death dates given in the bible to work backwards to Adams birth date. As I remember it, both men came up with the same year, the same month, but a different day. That was 2000 years before the birth of Christ. This is interesting when we have human, mummified remains from South America that have dated back to 35, 000 years ago.
The bible states that God placed Adam on earth toward the end of the 6th day. There is a belief that God picked up some earth and in an instant made Adams body, the same as our body is today. The question then becomes "how could any humans be living 31,000 years before the creation of Adam." The bible said that God made Adam in his likeness, does that mean that God has a body like ours? Is it possible that God made man in the likeness of his spirit or soul and the body was a place for God to put his likeness, the soul?
There is a possibility that people believing in Evolution and Christians need to come together. God could have use evolution for the path of putting Humans on earth. At some point in time God could have changed that being and gave him the ability to think. This could be the point where God created Adam
We already know that there are huge holes in the past historical record that we can not fill in. We do not know for sure the dates in which many of the things in the past took place. While this is only a theory, could it be true. END.