http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_israel_ancient_teeth
Sorry to mix religion and science, but what I remember from anthropology class about the generally-accepted theory is that humans originated in Africa. However, according to a midrash Adam and Eve landed on what is today the Temple Mount in Jerusalem after the Expulsion.
Not saying that this proves the Bible and disproves science, just adds to the intrigue.
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Disprove is wrong, since in a way it doesn't disprove either, since modern man does come from Africa. There is a good amount of proof that we all share ancestry from one mother whose origins are in Africa. -
Besides that, this find does challenge the African-Origin theory since the teeth discovered pre-date those in Africa. -
it does help the ancient alien theory and the theory of the ancient modern civilization theory though. -
all it proves is that NOBODY has all the answers.
and lol at "interpret the Bible's timeline according to modern understanding of time"
by modern understanding of time, i assume you really mean, " since advances in science and technology have allowed us to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that the earth is MILLIONS of times older then the bible says."
if your story has to continuosly be altered or "interpreted" in a different way so that it doesnt contradict what we know to be true today, then people should question that changing story and not the MOUNTING evidence against it from countless, independent sources. i think we as a civilization know far more then we did 2,000 years ago. if we are fortunate enough to still be around 2,000 years from now, we will know alot more then, than we do know now.
i think we are progressing and advancing, not "getting further from god" -
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Sure, the similarities exist between humans & other primates - but "what if" such an advanced race thought they needed to speed up the evolution process in order to produce a race capable of protecting the planet from further extinctions that originate from outer space(comets, asteroids, etc) which we know devastated nearly all life on the planet in past eras.
The irony of coarse, is that if we were intended to "protect the planet", over so many years we have risked wiping ourselves out in various ways. At the very least, Im sure such Alien forefathers would be quite disgusted with how we have turned out thus far. lol -
There was also recent evidence of a submerged earlier and advanced civilization to supports the Hindu version of human history. This would be the city where Shiba ruled and would predate (by thousands of years) the known civilizations of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.