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In a message dated 7/10/99 7:48:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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> As for your question as to why a person following an
> "evolutionary" diet might also follow a "modern" religion, here
> are some considerations.
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> 1. Contrary to your statement, some commentators believe that
> paleolithic people *are* mentioned in the Bible. In Genesis
> 4:16-17 we learn that Cain, having made himself unpopular at
> home, moved to Nod and got married. Who were the people of Nod?
> It has been suggested (e.g., Gerald Schroeder, _The Science of
> God_) that they were Neanderthal.
I have this book, but haven't gotten around to reading it yet.
This is fascinating stuff.....Neanderthals married? And what was Cain?
Homo-Sapien?....I'm gonna have to read that book....
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> 2. Another possibility is that Ray's facetious religious
> symbolism in Neanderthin is actually more or less accurate. That
> is, the Bible records the "fall" from the ideal hunter-gatherer
> state to the "cursed" state of agriculture: "And unto Adam he
> said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and
> hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou
> shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow
> shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life" (Gen 3:17). On
> this view, the paleodiet is an attempt to recapture a bit of
> pre-Fall living.
Was this supposed to have transpired 10,000yrs ago?
>
> Todd Moody
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Anna
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