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Saturday, February 19, 2022

Scientists Following Up Hints From Bible At Mt. Carmel, Israel on What Came Before Adam and Eve?

 Nadene Goldfoot                                        

        Mount Carmel, Israel  at sunset, as seen from the entrance    of Kibbutz Ma'agan Michael

The mountain formation is an admixture of limestone and flint, containing many caves, and covered in several volcanic rocks.

                                         

Sanctified since early times, Mt. Carmel is mentioned as a “holy mountain” in Egyptian records of the 16th century BC. As a “high place,” it was long a centre of idol worship, and its outstanding reference in the Bible is as the scene of Elijah’s confrontation with the false prophets of Baal (I Kings 18).    A cave is near the Sea and  on the river, a perfect spot.                             
               
Carmel cave (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)        

 In 1929, English archaeologist Dorothy Garrod and an all-female team arrived at a site in Israel’s Carmel mountain range and began to  dig deeply into the caves within. According to an oft-told tale, one day Garrod sent a missive to her family back home in which she announced, with great  excitement, that she had “found Man.”    









The sloped side of the mountain is covered with luxuriant vegetation, including oakpineolive, and laurel trees.

Several modern towns are located on the range, including Yokneam on the eastern ridge; Zikhron Ya'akov on the southern slope; the Druze communities of Daliyat al-Karmel and Isfiya on the more central part of the ridge; and the towns of NesherTirat Hakarmel, and the city of Haifa, on the far northwestern promontory and its base. There is also a small kibbutz called Beit Oren, which is located on one of the highest points in the range to the southeast of Haifa.

                                       

     Scientists found bone pieces in the cave at Mt. Carmel  and it was enough to get DNA from it.  

In Genesis, first book of the Old Testament,  Eve  is created out of Adam's rib.  Today we know that there had to be a mother and a father of Adam, our first man, for him to have half each of his parent's DNA.  Today we know that homo-Sapiens came into existence after Neanderthals, and that their bones are found in caves of Israel.  From those bones, DNA has been extracted.  Science knows much about these first people today.  Many of us still carry about 3% Neanderthal genes; I personally carry 2.9%.  Supposedly this helps my immunity system.  If this science were explained to people who lived  almost 4,000 years ago, they'd never have understood.  People today barely understand it. 

Interestingly, males carry the Y haplogroup of both their mother and father, but females only carry the X haplogroup of their mother.  Perhaps the Genesis explanation was buried in a way that could someday be understood, that from man came the woman and not the other way around.  

This means that any daughters or granddaughters of an Italian man would not be able to pass his Y chromosome to their male children. In other words, if a man traced his family back to one of that Italian ancestor’s daughters, there would not be any Italian left in his Y.  Yet we can find out what his mother's MThaplogroup was as well as his own male Yhaplogroup.  Could there be DNA swimming around in your body from relatives who lived thousands of years ago? Actually, yes! In fact, unless you have only African ancestors, you probably still have DNA from Neanderthals, who died out 30,000 years ago!



This is why it's important to get men to take the haplogroup tests.  You "kill 2 birds with 1 stone."The man's DNA supplies us with the information on both parents.                  

When did Adam come into existence? Evolutionists say Homo sapiens (that's us; people today) came into existence 200,000 to 400,000 years ago (depending on which evolutionist you consult, because they do not all agree on what a Homo sapiens is).Neanderthal bones found showed they did not live very long, dying around age 30, having a rough life.  

The Tabun Cave is an excavated site located at Nahal Me'arot Nature Reserve, Israel and is one of Human Evolution sites at Mount Carmel, which were proclaimed as having universal value by UNESCO in 2012.The cave was occupied intermittently during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic (500,000 to around 40,000 years ago). In the course of this period, deposits of sandsilt and clay of up to 25 m (82 ft) accumulated in the cave. Excavations suggest that it features one of the longest sequences of human occupation in the Levant.   On the southwest slopes are caves where archaeologists found (1931–32) Stone Age human skeletons of a type previously unknown.

The cave dwellers of that time used hand-axes of flint or limestone for killing animals (gazellehippopotamusrhinoceros and wild cattle which roamed the Coastal Plain) and for digging out plant roots. As tools improved slowly over time, the hand axes became smaller and better shaped, and scrapers made of thick flakes chipped off flint cores were probably used for scraping meat off bones and for processing animal skins.

     Nahal Hamearot Nature Reserve (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

At the Camel Cave, you can view a display of the Mousterian culture which began about 100,000-years ago and lasted for 40,000 years. Mannequins dressed in period costumes illustrate life at the time; a dead fallow deer lying on its side shows you what kind of food they ate. Hides are hung up to dry and Mr. Caveman is sharpening a tool. He could be making a spearhead, or a knife, for hunting. Mrs. Caveman raised the kids, and gathered grapes and berries for meals. The couple’s son is holding a snake.  

Most likely, scientists were able to extract MTdna from the bones but not the Ydna.  That's the way it's been with Egyptian mummies. In the youtube on Neanderthals, they found what grains were eaten, and oats were included.  How would early man eat without pottery to cook oats in?  They stuffed the stomach of an animal, a recipe still used today for certain foods, and also they wrapped the oats in leaves and steamed them.  Where there's a will, there's a way.   

Resource:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/finding-man-israels-prehistoric-caves/#:~:text=Life%20in%20this%20cave%20dates,comfortable%20to%20hold%20and%20symmetrical.

Are We the Last Neanderthals? from Coursara free online lectures-Youtube

https://www.britannica.com/place/Mount-Carmel-mountain-ridge-Israel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Carmel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabun_Cave

https://answersingenesis.org/adam-and-eve/when-was-adam-created/

 

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