[noor_1988]

According to Dr spenser wells he has written down the evolution of man was in africa 60000 years ago and he has given practicle proof for it. As I saw it in national geographic channel. But Adam and Eve were the first human beings on earth.I had a debate with my friend on this topic how do I make him understand about what is right

[TUT317]

According to Dr spenser wells he has written down the evolution of man was in africa 60000 years ago and he has given practicle proof for it. as i saw it in national geographic channel. But Adam and Eve were the first human beings on earth.I had a debate with my friend on this topic how do i make him understand about wat is right

Hi noor,

Are you illuding to the fact that the Bible and anthropology are in conflict?

If you are then perhaps you can look at it this way...

The Bible depicts a particular way at looking at the world. This particular way reflected a type of world view for the people involved. We could say that God revealed to these people certain 'truths'. These truths being put in a way that made sense for the time.

What stood to reason for that time was the fact that if someone or something exists then there must have been a first one. In other words, if we trace something back along a casual chain, eventually we get to the first one.

The problem is that science does not work that way. Anthropologists can't point to a skeleton and say, 'this was the very first human'. It doesn't work that way. I suppose we could say that science doesn't deal with first or last causes. Science is mainly interested in what's in between.

A biologist might do a better job at explaining this.

Regards

Tut

[Fr_Chuck]

Science and the bible do not always agree. Your friend will have to have a religious belief that accepts this.

Adam and eve are minor issues of accepting, Salvation is the more important issue