A vegetarian world
“And God said, Behold, I have
given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and
every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall
be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and
to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have
given every green herb for meat: and it was so” (Gen
Were
plants and fruits alone sufficient to have kept the first men in the excellent
health necessary for long and active lives?
A well-rounded diet? Nutritionists name six kinds of nutrients:
water, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, and minerals. The first four
are “macronutrients” we must have in large amounts. Much water is needed, since
the body is 50-75% water. A lot of carbohydrates and fats are a must for energy;
proteins for body tissues. Vitamins and minerals, the “micronutrients,” are taken
in minute quantities, but are vital for growth and organ functions.
Plants
and fruits have high water contents. Grains, legumes, and rootcrops are mostly
carbohydrates. Oil sources, like coconut, olive, corn, soybean, sunflower,
supply fats. Fruits and vegetables are rich in vitamins and minerals. But
proteins are best obtained from animals as milk, eggs, meat, fish. These are
complete proteins containing all the essential amino acids. Cereals, nuts, and
vegetables, lacking one or more essential amino acids, are incomplete proteins.
A primeval vegetarian diet would not have been well-rounded. Or was it?
Were
all the nutrients that the first men and animals needed in the right amounts in
the plants and fruits that have since become extinct? The herbivorous dinosaurs
were the biggest creatures on earth and lasted for millions of years. The
biggest and strongest land animals today are the plant-eating elephants,
giraffes, rhinoceroses, buffaloes. Part of the dinosaurs’ diet 248-65 million
years ago were leaves of the ginkgo tree, today a “living fossil” in
Flesh-eating
creatures
In many paleontological
digs around the globe, animal bones have been found with manlike fossils. Java
and Peking man sites yielded remains of bats, monkeys, rhinoceroses, elephants,
wild cats. Hominids ate many herbivores like deer, goats, and oxen, but their
diet included carnivorous predators and scavengers such as lions, wolves, bears.
Traders or raiders? Archeologists believe, based on mixed
artifacts found, that primitive Neanderthals may have traded with the more
modern Cro-Magnons. The
Did they
trade with each other or raid one another? Skeletal remains show that Neanderthals
and Cro-Magnons lived in a brutal period. There were signs of violence in the
form of broken bones, scars, and healed-over bone growths. In particular, there
was a high incidence of neck and head injuries. The artifacts could have been
spoils of war.
Man-eating men. A French-American team has unearthed
evidence of cannibalism at a Neanderthal site in
Other Homo
erectus, Neanderthal, and early Homo sapiens (Cro-Magnon) sites
piece together the same grisly picture: With sharp stone tools, hominids dismembered
and defleshed their kills. They used stone hammers and anvils to break open the
big bones for the marrow. Many skulls had been bashed open to extract the
brains. Evidence indicates some Neanderthals may have done the same to their relatives.
Signs
of cannibalism are present in only a few sites, but because the total number of
sites is small, it was statistically a widespread practice.
Day-Age 6-n:
- Circa 57,221 to 28,611 years
ago (Duration: approximately 28,611 years)
Day-Age 6-o:
- Circa 28,611 to 13,306 years
ago (Duration: approximately 14,306 years)
End of Day 6
“And God saw every thing that he
had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were
the sixth day” (Gen
Day-Age
6 Summary:
- Total duration (Day-Age 6-a
to 6-o): circa 468,735,694 years. (To round figures, 0.8858 remainder from
the exponential regression has been added to the remaining 14,305.1142 years,
for a full 14,306 years. See table at the end of this chapter.)
Day
7: Day of rest
“Thus the heavens and the earth
were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his
work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work
which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because
that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made” (Gen 2:1-3).
Interpretations
of Day 7:
- Literal 24-Hour Days: 1
day after man was created circa 6,000 years ago
- Thousand-Year Days:
circa 6,000-5,000 years ago
- Diminishing Day-Ages: circa 13,306 to 6,153 years ago
(Duration: approximately 7,153 years)
Shift to 1,000-year
“days”?
After the
seven-“day” Creation “week,” the flow of time appears to have shifted
inexplicably to a dual mode for all, as laid down in 2 Peter 3:8 (“one day is with the Lord as a thousand years,
and a thousand years as one day”; cf.
Ps 90:4): literal 24-hour days from man’s standpoint, and prophetic 1,000-year
“days” from God’s viewpoint.
Thus,
both Young and Old Earth Creationists now reckon days as 24-hour periods, but
at the same time are subject to God’s 1,000-year “days” in the prophetic
countdown.
Countdown
to completion.
In the Diminishing Day-Ages timeline, some
7,153 years were still remaining in 4004 B.C. at the creation of modern man’s
ancestor, Adam, before the full 15 billion years could be completed.
Homo sapiens sapiens. The subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens, whose first
specimen was Adam, includes all people living today. The braincase of modern man
ranges from about 1,000 to 2,000 cu cm (60 to 120 cu in), averaging around 1,350
cu cm (80 cu in),111 slightly smaller than those of Neanderthals and
Cro-Magnons, but proportional to a less massive muscular build.
The World Book reports that, after
scientifically comparing DNA samples of modern men with those of Neanderthals
and other extinct hominids, many scientists conclude that the results indicate all
people today form a separate species distinct from prehistoric humans.112
(The scientists, however, fell short of saying how the first man came about.)
Homo sapiens sapiens timeline.
·
Circa
6,000-5,000 years ago. God created Adam some 6,000 years ago (4004 B.C.) The
wheel was invented around 5,500 years ago (3500 B.C.) in Sumer, Mesopotamia,113 where an
early writing system in the form of pictographs also appeared at about the same
time; followed 5,300 years ago by Egyptian hieroglyphics (3300-3200 B.C.).114
·
Circa
5,000-4,000 years ago. The Bronze
Age began some 5,000 years ago (3000 B.C.) in
·
Circa
4,000-3,000 years ago. Abraham was
born about 4,000 years ago (1996 B.C.) The Iron Age began sometime around 1500-1000
B.C., with the use of iron for tools and weapons.116
·
Circa
3,000-2,000 years ago. David lived and died about 3,000 years ago (1015 B.C.),
followed by his son Solomon (975 B.C.).
·
Circa
2,000-1,000 years ago. Christ was born about 2,000 years ago (5 B.C.). The
eastern
·
Circa
1,000 years ago-present. Christians launched Crusades from 1096 to 1396 to
regain the
·
Next
1,000 years. The Millennium, the prophesied 1,000-year era of peace (mankind’s
great Sabbath of rest), during which Christ will reign on earth as King of
Kings (Rev 20:1-7).
Diminishing Day-Ages
Chronology
(7-“Day”
Creation “Week” until 3000 A.D. = 15 Billion Years)
|
Day-Ages |
Scriptures |
Beginning,
circa years ago |
Science/History |
Occurrence, circa years ago |
|
Day 1 |
Light |
15,000,000,000 |
Big Bang |
13,700,000,000 |
|
|
|
|
Milky Way |
8,000,000,000 |
|
Day 2 |
Firmament |
7,500,000,000 |
Sun, Earth, Moon |
4,600,000,000 |
|
Day 3 |
Seas, dry land, vegetation |
3,750,000,000 |
Oceans; bacteria/ cells w/out
nuclei |
3,500,000,000 |
|
Day 4 |
Heavenly lights |
1,875,000,000 |
Atmosphere thinned |
|
|
|
|
|
Cells with nuclei |
1,800,000,000 |
|
Day 5 |
Sea creatures, |
937,500,000 |
Animal life forms |
700,000,000 |
|
|
flying creatures |
|
Cambrian Explosion |
544,000,000 |
|
|
|
|
Chordates, fish |
490,000,000 |
|
Day 6-a |
|
468,750,000 |
85% extinction |
438,000,000 |
|
|
Land animals |
|
Amphibians |
417,000,000 |
|
|
|
|
82% extinction |
367,000,000 |
|
|
Creeping |
|
Insects |
350,000,000 |
|
|
things |
|
Reptiles |
323,000,000 |
|
|
Beasts, cattle |
|
Mammals |
248,000,000 |
|
|
|
|
96% extinction |
245,000,000 |
|
6-b |
|
234,375,000 |
76% extinction |
208,000,000 |
|
|
|
|
Archaeopteryx |
150,000,000 |
|
6-c |
|
117,187,500 |
76% extinction |
65,000,000 |
|
|
|
|
Primates (lemurs, |
“ |
|
6-d |
|
58,593,750 |
monkeys, |
|
|
6-e |
|
29,296,875 |
apes) |
|
|
6-f |
|
14,648,437 |
Ramapithecus |
14,000,000 |
|
6-g |
|
7,324,218 |
Sahelanthropus |
7,000,000 |
|
|
|
|
Orrorin tugenensis |
6,000,000 |
|
|
|
|
Ardipithecus |
4,400,000 |
|
|
|
|
Australopithecus |
4,000,000 |
|
6-h |
|
3,662,109 |
Kenyanthropus |
3,500,000 |
|
|
|
|
Homo habilis |
2,800,000 |
|
|
|
|
Homo rudolfensis |
1,900,000 |
|
6-i |
|
1,831,054 |
Homo erectus |
1,500,000 |
|
6-j |
|
915,527 |
H. heidelbergensis |
600,000 |
|
6-k |
Man |
457,763 |
H. Neanderthalensis |
300,000 |
|
6-l |
|
228,882 |
Homo sapiens |
200,000 |
|
6-m |
“ |
114,441 |
|
|
|
6-n |
|
57,221 |
|
|
|
6-o |
|
28,611 |
|
|
|
Day 7 |
Day of rest |
14,306 |
|
|
|
Day 8 |
Adam |
6,000 |
Wheel, writing |
5,500 |
|
Day 9 |
Noah, Flood |
5,000 |
Bronze Age |
5,000 |
|
Day 10 |
Abraham |
4,000 |
Iron Age |
3,500 |
|
Day 11 |
David, Solomon |
3,000 |
|
2,750 |
|
Day 12 |
Christ |
2,000 |
Dark/Middle Ages |
1,600 |
|
Day 13 |
(Crusades) |
1,000 |
Modern Age |
250 |
|
Day 14 |
Millennium/rest |
(near
future) |
|
|
____________________
109.Nature, May 16, 1996
(Excerpted from Chapter 4, Primordial Planet Puzzles, THE DEEP THINGS OF GOD: A Primer on the Secrets of Heaven and Earth by M.M. Tauson, Amazon.com)
