Hi, I agree there's too much time wasted on irrelevancies and personal attacks.
I've asked questions several times and have never gotten a (to me) satisfactory reply. The questions, for those who hold to a naturalistic view of creation, are the following:
- If you were to drop a pencil a week from now, which direction would it go? What if you did it two weeks from now? Why do you answer the way you do?
- Do you believe in the historicity of Adam?
I'll take this one....
It is said that man is the image of God, but given the nature of an omnipresent God, clearly this is not a physical image. Indeed, one of the tenets of Judaism is that God has no physical form. Therefore, this image is a spiritual and/or intellectual image.
God tells Moses that His name is "I am that I am." I believe that Adam was the first Homo sapiens to have the idea, "I am," and thus become the image of God, "I am that I am."
Physically, there were human creatures before Adam, but they were not, spiritually, in the image of God. Adam took -- or was led through -- that necessary step.