[fwdude]

Interesting take on the evolution/creationism debate.

[UCANSEE2]

Yeah, and all done in one paragraph. Pretty unusual.

[ExGeeEye]

I am a Biblical Creationist: I believe that what the Bible says is true, and what the Bible does not say is open to conjecture. Some parts of the history of creation as we have received it bring questions to my mind that strict no-death YEC have not answered other than with shouts of “heretic!”

One question, for example: when Adam ate of the non-forbidden fruits and veggies, did they die? Or did they somehow survive harvesting, mastication, and digestion?

My theory is that there was corporeal death among the non-human creation. Adam is uniquely described as being given God’s Breath of Life. It made him “a living soul”; it is that which would have sustained him in immortality, and it is that which was taken from him at the Fall and which will be restored to us at the Resurrection.

Thoughts? Or just more shouts of “heretic!”

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Let me throw an interesting twist into the discussion by mentioning the immortal jellyfish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii

To make a long story short, once the jellyfish mates, it reverts to its juvenile form, and then again ages normally.

Well, a simple jellyfish can do this, since they are far less complicated than a human being. Which is incorrect, in that many “simple” organisms have far more chromosomes than do humans. They are *more* complicated than we are.

Humans only have 44 autosomal and 2 sex chromosomes. And all the genetic difference that humans can have are contained in those chromosomes.

The highest number of chromosomes among plants and animals is found in a fern called Adder’s Tongue. 1260 chromosomes. Over 27 times the number that humans have.

So this is a good question for creationists.

If plants, animals and man could do this way back when, the forces of “nature” would be tremendously different.

[logitech]

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[RansomOttawa]

I've often wondered what the purpose was of the "Tree of Life" that was in the garden of Eden. The Bible says that when Adam and Eve were expelled, that specific tree was guarded to prevent them eating from it, in case they lived forever.

And yet, that tree was never forbidden to them—so who's to say they never did eat from it already?

My personal theory is that eating from the Tree of Life didn't cause immortality, so much as it prevented death. When Adam and Eve were expelled, they lost access to it and death was the result.

Hence I think natural human or animal death was always a possibility. It was simply a result of the Fall that it became a horror to be avoided.