[It does not matter how old adam and eve were when god instructed them not to eat from the tree of knowledge. They were unable to comprehend the ramifications of their actions.
He was very intelligent for he named all the animals. To do so takes intelligence for one must first study the given animal and then name it as to its specific characteristics.
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Well, by that logic, he was more intelligent than TonyN, because most people come up with their own net names.
How does "elephant" describe its specific characteristics? Pointing at something and making the same sound everytime you identify it simply shows consistency. Assigning arbitrary syllables to various things does not demonstrate intelligence. If it did, my two year old nephew is a genius for renaming the computer "buh!".
Caveman probably had "names" for species as well. They could've pointed at a cave bear and went "Oogga Wooga!" That doesn't mean they're intelligent enough to understand that eating from a certain tree is bad. Regardless, it's Eve who had to be intelligent enough to understand the difference between right and wrong because it was her who persuaded Adam into eating it and as we all know men are incapable of turning down the requests of a naked women - At least that's the moral that I got out of it. After all, people are understanding of Adam's actions and blame Eve (along with all women) for causing Adam (and thus man in general) to sin.
Hmm...I don't think that names are necessarily a sign of intelligence. After all, the ant-lion isn't an ant or a lion, or even closely related to either.
To suggets that one person named all the animals is the height of ignorance. Even at the rate of naming 1 every 3 seconds, it would take hundreds, if not thousands, of years to name them all. To study each one and name them as to their specific characteristics would take more time than the Babble suggests has elapsed since the "Creation."
Riiiiiight!
because Cow is such a hard word to think of nearly 7000 langauges *currantly* existing in the world. Now that cows live on every inhabited continent, did Adam have to come up with names for them that would be used in the future? The logical leaps you would need to make to actually believe this stuff hurt my brain just thinking about it.
So Captain Cook asked an Aboriginal fellow, "Tell me, kind Aboriginal fellow, what do you call that strange animal with the powerful tail, big hind legs and the pouch in front?"
Okay, then what does "dumfuck" stand for? After all, your mother named you that, right?
xander07 wrote:
Sometimes it's just best to treat the bible as a work of fiction and fundies like rabid fans. Honestly, I respect Trekkies more.
That's Trekker
How can Adam "study" to give the animals names if there is nothing to study prior to that because before that WAS creationalism, there WAS NOTHING prior to that. And, what language did he name them in? And thusly, who decided what the supposed original names by Adam meant what they do in English?
So, either this one claims that Adam invented the scientific classifications (which are in Latin, no less!) used to name animals by genus & species, or he's saying that "deer" and "cow" are descriptive of the animals' characteristics.
My grandma named her kitten after a vegetable when I was two. I couldn't pronounce it, but kitties said 'bew,' so I called it 'bew' until it stuck. She lived to be eighteen, still 'Bew.'
I named an animal based on its characteristics. I COULDN'T MAKE SENTENCES YET.
“He was very intelligent for he named all the animals. To do so takes intelligence for one must first study the given animal and then name it as to its specific characteristics.”
It certainly says nothing about him studying anything that came before him.
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