Because the author (God) was there.
THE Adam was a direct creation by God after the creation of other forms of life, including different races of men. Adam was mentioned as he was the progenitor from which Christ would come. IOW, the Bible is the story of the tribes......plural mind you, of Israel. There were other people for Cain to go to after he murdered his brother. Under my theory and belief, those who would give birth to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, came from THE Adam. Other people on this Earth were created between “IN THE BEGINNING and THE Adam.” Just as if I were to tell the story of ME, it would start at my birth...to go back to my parents, or grandparents would lend light only peripheraly.
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Geology doesn't even explain how the earth got here. I once asked a geologist (by profession and training) friend what the conventional wisdom was about the earth when it was only 2000 miles in diameter.
He said to me that that "was planetary science."
Geologists start with the same 8000 mile diameter earth that Genesis does.
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I don't understand your sentence. "God only took 6,000 years before the creation of Adam and Eve"?! "Took" for what? I think that a word or two are missing. Please clarify.
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In the middle of the nineteenth century, when archaeologists discovered the creation story of ancient Babylon, the initial reaction was one of alarm. The story was similar to the story in Genesis, so how could the Babylonians have known it? Did the writer of Genesis take stories from another culture? Was the Bible not unique? Closer study, however, showed that the apparently similar stories were saying two very different things about the nature of the human being and the human’s place in the world.
The Enuma Elish is readily available and inexpensive (Alexander Heidel, Babylonian Genesis). It's also, apart from some elements, not a whole lot like Genesis.
Why do people use the Bible as a science book when it comes to earth science and its creation?
Well, for the first thing, because the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob made it all... :-) ... and then for the second thing, He's the one who saw what happened, and He's telling y'all about it and what happened and how long it took Him... LOL...
He took six days for creation not because He couldn't do it in less time (He could but He didn't choose to do so). He set up the six days as a pattern for mankind and rest on the seventh.
He just wanted you to remember it... you see...
It sounds fairly non-complicated to me...
“This article got me to thinking about those who say the Bible states that God only took 6,000 years before the creation of Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, who were created about 6,000 years ago”
Are you saying these people think the world is 12,000 years old? 6,000 from Creation to the first man and woman, then another 6,000 to the present?
I don’t know of any Christian denomination which believes that.
“science book”
The passage quoted does not try to use the Bible as a science book.
Besides, science is just one more way of studying what God is done, and how He has set things up.