Re: Lets get it on evolution vs creation

Louann Miller wrote:
TomS <TomS_member@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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He would know things like, "if I make a right turn at the tree at the
bottom of the hill there will be a path to a pool where I can go
swimming." He can know that *as if* he had learned to swim in that
pool, even though he had never learned to swim and had never seen that
pool. That he had that knowledge does not mean that he had memories
of walking along that path or having learned to swim, or even that
he found it odd that he knew such things.

If so, they must have been surprised as anything by the fact that Cain
and Abel as babies _didn't_ have all this automatic knowledge. But
instead had to be taught things one piece of information at a time,
usually after great repetition.

(Maybe there were several other kids before C&A who weren't mentioned in
the Bible because they died young of having vastly incompetent parents.)

No, Adam & Eve were also born with the knowledge that you had to take care of children. Or maybe not. Adam's diary has some confusion on that point. Apparently Eve knew but Adam didn't:

"We have named it Cain. She caught it while I was up country trapping on the North Shore of the Erie; caught it in the timber a couple of miles from our dug-out -- or it might have been four, she isn't certain which. It resembles us in some ways, and may be a relation. That is what she thinks, but this is an error, in my judgment. The difference in size warrants the conclusion that it is a different and new kind of animal -- a fish, perhaps, though when I put it in the water to see, it sank, and she plunged in and snatched it out before there was opportunity for the experiment to deter mine the matter. I still think it is a fish, but she is indifferent about what it is, and will not let me have it to try. I do not understand this. The coming of the creature seems to have changed her whole nature and made her unreasonable about experiments. She thinks more of it than she does of any of the other animals, but is not able to explain why. Her mind is disordered -- everything shows it. Sometimes she carries the fish in her arms half the night when it complains and wants to get to the water. At such times the water comes out of the places in her face that she looks out of, and she pats the fish on the back and makes soft sounds with her mouth to soothe it, and betrays sorrow and solicitude in a hundred ways. I have never seen her do like this with any other fish, and it troubles me greatly. She used to carry the young tigers around so, and play with them, before we lost our property, but it was only play; she never took on about them like this when their dinner disagreed with them."

Hey, why doesn't ASI ever mention Adam's diary? It's a direct, eyewitness account of the earliest days of the world. And it's no oral tradition either. It was written from the beginning, though only translated in the 19th Century, right from the original autographs. It would seem to be a prime ancient text.

Louann, who can think within any frame of reference you like.


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