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Koyaanisqatsi · 08-29-2005, 01:00 PM

Not quite sure where this one should go, so I'll leave that mighty decision to my betters.

Had a thought the other night and knew that if there were any merit to it, someone here would shoot it down

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What if the geneology in Genesis (and all the subsequent YEC bullshite that came as a result) was actually the chronology of human self-awareness? And just like the children's game of Telephone, the original oral tradition got bastardized into a physical creation myth instead of a sentience (for lack of a better word) creation myth?

See where I'm going with this? The first group (or a first group) of early humans to have made the evolutionary leap to self-awareness wanted to keep an oral journal, so to type, of the first days when Grandpa Adam spoke and Grandma Eve understood him and spoke back and the two carried on a conversation asking for the first time in Earth-animal evolution an abstract question about their grander purpose on Earth (aka, "Why?") and that's the real story of Adam and Eve, having nothing to do with any fantastical bullshit about dust and ribs and naming crap; all of which would have been added on by several generations of story embellishers.

The reason I was thinking this is I saw some Nova or some History Channel thing about how our physical evolution (from primate to human) was much shorter than originally theorized (something on the order of 50,000 years if failing memory serves) and that human history wasn't recorded until around 6,000 years ago, I believe, which leaves open a window of emergent intelligence that arguably coincides (more or less) with the YEC timeline.

It isn't that the Earth/Universe was created 12,000 years ago; it's that human self-awareness emerged 12,000 years ago (and early man fucked up the message).

I didin't know where to go from there (or if there is any other place to go with it), so...I chum it in these here fine and hearty waters. Yar.

What do you think?

Anyone...? Bueller...?

Toto · 08-29-2005, 02:24 PM

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08-29-2005, 01:00 PM	#1
Koyaanisqatsi Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Yes, I have dyslexia. Sue me. Posts: 6,508	Biblical Telephone Not quite sure where this one should go, so I'll leave that mighty decision to my betters. Had a thought the other night and knew that if there were any merit to it, someone here would shoot it down . What if the geneology in Genesis (and all the subsequent YEC bullshite that came as a result) was actually the chronology of human self-awareness? And just like the children's game of Telephone, the original oral tradition got bastardized into a physical creation myth instead of a sentience (for lack of a better word) creation myth? See where I'm going with this? The first group (or a first group) of early humans to have made the evolutionary leap to self-awareness wanted to keep an oral journal, so to type, of the first days when Grandpa Adam spoke and Grandma Eve understood him and spoke back and the two carried on a conversation asking for the first time in Earth-animal evolution an abstract question about their grander purpose on Earth (aka, "Why?") and that's the real story of Adam and Eve, having nothing to do with any fantastical bullshit about dust and ribs and naming crap; all of which would have been added on by several generations of story embellishers. The reason I was thinking this is I saw some Nova or some History Channel thing about how our physical evolution (from primate to human) was much shorter than originally theorized (something on the order of 50,000 years if failing memory serves) and that human history wasn't recorded until around 6,000 years ago, I believe, which leaves open a window of emergent intelligence that arguably coincides (more or less) with the YEC timeline. It isn't that the Earth/Universe was created 12,000 years ago; it's that human self-awareness emerged 12,000 years ago (and early man fucked up the message). I didin't know where to go from there (or if there is any other place to go with it), so...I chum it in these here fine and hearty waters. Yar. What do you think? Anyone...? Bueller...?

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