Hi Billy, On May 1, 2012, at 3:20 PM, [email protected] wrote: > About Adam , I'd put it this way : A real world Adam is beyond recovery > since he would have lived, say, ca. 100,000 BC in what is now Ethiopia > or elsewhere in the area of the Great Rift Valley, in a primitive Shamanistic > society. The first Cro-Magnon. > > It would be good to somehow know a lot more about him, and maybe > archeologists / paleontologists will find new circumstantial evidence that > will help us piece together some valuable information into a better picture > than we now have, but probably we will never know.
I (and I suspect the scholars he cites) take the view that Adam was a genuine Sumerian king living, say, 6-10,000 years ago. A real person, and perhaps the "federal head" representing humanity the way Jesus was later, but not the first anatomically modern human. -- Ernie P. > -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
