50- Did the human species begin with one single man?
“No, the man known as Adam was neither the first nor the only one to populate the earth.”
51- Can we know when Adam lived?
“More or less at the time assigned to him – about 4,000 years B.C.”
The man whom tradition regards by the name Adam was one of those who somewhere survived one of the great cataclysms that have modified the earth’s surface in different eras. He became the progenitor of one of today’s current races. The laws of nature contradict the opinion that the amount of human progress accomplished well before the time of Christ took only a few centuries, which would have to have been the case if humankind had only come into existence at the date assigned to Adam. Some regard Adam – and with good reason – as a myth or allegory personifying one of the world’s earliest ages.
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