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How old are modern human beings?

4000-6000 yrs old - 0.0%

6000-10000 yrs old - 12.5%

10000-30000 yrs old - 25.0%

a little over 30000 yrs old - 25.0%

WAY over 30000 yrs old - 37.5%

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One Love
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Posted 12/16/2005 12:19 AM (GMT -6)

Simple question:

How old do you think modern human beings are?

Similitude
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Posted 12/16/2005 9:41 PM (GMT -6)

Meph, does Doc get his 30,000 yr limit from Hugh Ross? I thought scientists had moved the date of even "modern" homo sapiens to about 200,000 yr BP. And on what biblical basis do they draw the line at 30,000 yrs, anyway? Ross has always seemed purely arbitrary on the matter.

Post Edited (jefscott) : 12/16/2005 8:55:22 PM (GMT-6)

One Love
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Posted 12/18/2005 2:20 PM (GMT -6)

Oops. Didn't see this.

Jeff:
Meph, does Doc get his 30,000 yr limit from Hugh Ross? I thought scientists had moved the date of even "modern" homo sapiens to about 200,000 yr BP. And on what biblical basis do they draw the line at 30,000 yrs, anyway? Ross has always seemed purely arbitrary on the matter.

Oh, Doc believes that homo sapiens sapiens are MUCH, MUCH older than 30,000 years old. He follows up on scientific discoveries like this. I was just saying the 30000 year old thing, in light of conservative old-earthers like Hugh Ross. The formal position of the Reasons to Believe Ministries (Ross's) is that modern human beings are between 30,000 and 70,000 years old. This aligns with other old-earthers as well.

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God graciously FINDS us meaningful when God doesn't need to do it and we, in ourselves, can't do it.

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--God

Starkman
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Posted 12/19/2005 6:58 PM (GMT -6)

I'm 45 this month. Anything older is ancient and uncalculable in my opinion.

(Really, I have no idea how old mankind is.)

Starkman

My teacher used to say that whenever he read Scripture, he would always ask the question, "What does this have to say about the character of God?" Working off his thinking, as I read Scripture, I have come to ask, "What does this have to say about the heart and passion of God's desire for relationship for us?

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