Need help with interview questions for history of life class.

[cmcall38]

I need someone that follows evolution theory to respond to the following questions for a history of life class, thank you in advance. I could also use someone that is a creationist. Thank you.

 

 

How long are the days in Genesis 1 ? Why?

 

How old is the earth and life? Why?

 

Did man and apes share a common ancestor? Why or why not?

 

Were Adam and Eve real people? Why or why not?

 

[Sensei]

How old is the earth and life? Why?

What do you know about radioisotope dating?

 

Read this article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating

 

Did man and apes share a common ancestor?

 

How much percent of genes/DNA is common between man and apes.. ?

[Argent]

Messed up post. Please excuse.

 

Edited March 31, 2017 by Argent

[NimrodTheGoat]

1. Specify which days.

 

2. The Earth is 4.543 billion years old, and around 3.8 billion years ago the first life forms emerged. Why? Carbon dating or something like that.

 

3. We split from our closest African ape relatives in the genus pan around six to seven million years ago.

 

4. I would like to beleive so, yes.

[Velocity_Boy]

I need someone that follows evolution theory to respond to the following questions for a history of life class, thank you in advance. I could also use someone that is a creationist. Thank you.

 

How long are the days in Genesis 1 ? Why?

 

It does not matter what the author of the Genesis Creation Story had in mind insofar as the length of his "days" is concerned. This is because Genesis is simply Bronze Age Hebrew Mythology. And has in fact nothing at all to do with real science. And certainly not with Evolutionary Biology. For the record, the Book of Genesis is not anywhere near the oldest Book in the Old Testament, or the Torah. It was written when the Hebrews were in Babylonian captivity. As a fable to ensure that their custom of keeping the Sabbath Holy was not forgotten. This is why the whole "seventh day, God rested" stuff.

 

How old is the earth and life? Why?

 

The most recent Cosmological and Geological findings date the age of the Earth to be approximately 4.67 Billion years old. This dating should be accurate to + or - 100,000 years. As to why, that is the time when the matter that comprises the planet we call Earth coalesced to suffcient mass and density--cohesiveness-so as to become an orbiting planet, a satellite, of the star we call the Sun.

 

Did man and apes share a common ancestor? Why or why not?

 

We did. The first bipedal hominid primates that began our sub-species of homo sapiens (we are now actually homo sapien sapiens "wise wise ape") branched off from our last common ape-like ancestor about 6 million years ago. Australopithecus afarensis is thought to be the beginning sub-species of homo sapien. There have been, in total, some 27 different species of homo, and we are indeed, "the last apes standing." As far as true, human-like ancestors, most anthropologists do not like to go back much more than, say, 200,000 years or so, with homo habilis ("handy man") who suceeeded homo erectus, and was shown to have tool-making and language skills. We h. sapiens exited Africa about 100,000 years ago, and headed toward North Central Europe, where we encountered, and vanquished (how is not clear) Neanderthal Man around 35,000 tears ago.

 

Were Adam and Eve real people? Why or why not?

 

No they were not. They were simply fictional characters from the aforementioned Genesis Creation Mythos which I mentioned above. OUtside of the Bible, there is of course no mention of them from secular sources. They certainly did not exist, any more so than, say, characters from Greek Mythology like Zeus or Apollo.