re: Adam and Eve

Quoting khigh:" <blockquote><b>Quoting Kaleighshaleigh:</b>" I'm well aware of who wrote the scriptures ... [snip!] ... when the Bible was written, you would know that it was tens of thousands of years after the first humans were on the earth."

Tens of Thousands of years? Where did you get that information?

Quoting Kaleighshaleigh:" True, but they are vegetarians none the less. And as far as the cave drawings are concerned you're welcome ... [snip!] ... I showed. Look...I'm not trying to convince anyone to change their view. I'm simply stating why I have the view that I have."

Yes I just stated that they were and obviously they adapted to survive in the environment they live in.

Quoting Kaleighshaleigh:" Tens of Thousands of years? Where did you get that information?"

Modern humans have inhabited this planet for around 200000 years

Quoting MysticWitchKat:" Modern humans have inhabited this planet for around 200000 years"

How do you know?

<blockquote><b>Quoting Kaleighshaleigh:</b>" Tens of Thousands of years? Where did you get that information?"</blockquote>



Anthropology. You know, that thing I have my degree in.

Quoting Kaleighshaleigh:" How do you know?"

Google told me.

Quoting Kaleighshaleigh:" Why would I mention another religions other than my own when speaking of Adam and Eve? My religion is ... [snip!] ... that I am currently speaking about. There is no reason for me to state other religions because I don't put my faith in them."

I don't put my faith in Christianity and yet I mention it. Did you know that the Hindus, Sumarians, and Mayans have Adam and Eve type stories?

Quoting MysticWitchKat:" No thank you books written on the subject of archaeology by theologians are of no intrest to me. The ... [snip!] ... Or simply not logical since scribes would have recorded other pharoahs incursions into israel 400 years or more later."

I will highlight three pieces of evidence that I believe supports the historicity of the account found in the Old Testament.
(1) The list of cities in the Transjordan region through which the Israelites passed on their way into the land in Numbers 33:45-50 includes Iyim, Dibon-gad, Abel-smurffim, and Jordan. A list of places through which Egyptian armies passed in their military incursions dating from the same general period include these four places in the same order. Ian Wilson in his book The Bible Is History quotes archaeologist Charles Krahmalkov on this point: "The biblical story of the invasion of Transjordan that sets the stage for the conquest of all Palestine is told against a background that is historically accurate. The Israelite invasion route described in Numbers 33:50 was…an official, heavily trafficked Egyptian road through the Transjordan in the Late Bronze Age."3 By itself, this piece of information does not prove that the Conquest happened, but it does lend some credibility to the account.
(2) Although most archaeologists today think that the story of Joshua's conquest of Jericho cannot be true, their reasoning is likely based on a mistaken chronology. As Time magazine recently put it, "Did Joshua conquer the city of Jericho? The walls of this Canaanite city did come tumbling down, say most historians, but centuries before Moses' protégé could have arrived."4 This assessment is based on the conclusions of Kathleen Kenyon, who in the 1950s dated Jericho's fall to around 1500 BC while assuming a late date of around 1200 BC for the Conquest. The issue here, then, is one of chronology. The bottom line is that "the walls" did, in fact, "come a tumblin'down," just as the Bible says, although the current archaeological convention does not date the event to the period indicated by the Bible. Similar chronological difficulties attend the events of the Exodus: there are records of Egypt being devastated by the kinds of plagues recorded in the Book of Exodus, but modern archaeology dates this devastation to a period hundreds of years earlier than the Bible indicates.5 One should not underestimate the extreme complexities and difficulties of calibrating archaeological finds across the region with the chronological information found in ancient written sources.
(3) Scientists have discovered evidence that provides remarkable confirmation of one of the miracles of the Conquest: the crossing of the Jordan River. The book of Joshua reports that when the Israelites began to cross the Jordan opposite Jericho, the waters of the Jordan "rose up in one heap a great distance away at Adam" as they flowed down toward the Dead Sea (Josh. 3:14-17). This damming of the river allowed the Israelites to walk across the riverbed on dry ground. Critics of the Bible routinely claim that no such event occurred, and suggest that the book is crediting Joshua with a miracle similar to the crossing of the Red Sea in order to portray him as Moses' true successor. However, we have good evidence, both internal and external, supporting the historicity of the account of Joshua's crossing of the Jordan.

Quoting khigh:" <blockquote><b>Quoting Kaleighshaleigh:</b>" Tens of Thousands of years? Where did ... [snip!] ... of years? Where did you get that information?"</blockquote> Anthropology. You know, that thing I have my degree in."

A degree in Anthropology gave you that information?   I'm sure you read that somewhere,maybe while getting your degree or at some point in your studies, right? And you put your faith in that, even though there was no one there to prove it as fact. Right? So again....you put your faith in one area and I put my faith in another.

Quoting MysticWitchKat:" Google told me."

So it MUST be true!  

Here are your flat Earth quotes:

Revelation 7:1
1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. (KJV)

"that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it? (From the NIV Bible, Job 38:13)"

"Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea. (From the NIV Bible, Job 11:9)"

Oooooh, and it doesn't move?

"He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved. (From the NIV Bible, Psalm 104:5)

Quoting khigh:" I don't put my faith in Christianity and yet I mention it. Did you know that the Hindus, Sumarians, and Mayans have Adam and Eve type stories?"

Yes I did know that, but since I am speaking on what I personally believe, since that is what the OP wanted to know, I chose to use the Christian perspective.

Quoting Kaleighshaleigh:" A degree in Anthropology gave you that information?   I'm sure you read that somewhere,maybe while ... [snip!] ... there was no one there to prove it as fact. Right? So again....you put your faith in one area and I put my faith in another."

Faith is blind. I QUESTION science. I DO NOT take it as fact.

Although it is common knowledge, here are a few articles stating the age of human existence:

http://www.universetoday.com/38125/how-long-have-humans-been-on-earth/
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/human-origins/modern-human-evolution/when/index.html
http://www.wisegeek.com/how-long-have-humans-been-around-relative-to-the-earths-age.htm

Quoting Kaleighshaleigh:" Yes I did know that, but since I am speaking on what I personally believe, since that is what the OP wanted to know, I chose to use the Christian perspective."

No. You are stating a FABLE as fact. The Grimm brothers wrote a book of moral beliefs that are just as factual as your Bible.

1. No on said a portion of the story could not be true. However even if you read that all one archaeologist does is say there can be some credibility to it. However even that is with problems because he is in the minority of opinions even with that.

2 and 3 really don't make any points. To my understanding however the Jericho of the middle bronze age had no walls, that was from an earlier city.