June , 2006

Dear Editor in Chief,

Then an unintelligent scholar asked something about Genesis chapter 5-6
and other topics on the bible because the scholar is sometimes disturbed of
other scientific findings especially the theory of evolution: a) is it true that
during or between the time of Noah and going back to Adam of about a span
of 10 generations, men had lived for an average age of 900 years? b) Is it
true that long age of about more or less 900 years means “forever”? c) Is it
true that the average age for a man to have a son or daughter is more or less
about 115 years during the time of Noah back to Adam? d) Is it also true that
after the Great flood, God decided that men should not live “forever” or man
should not have a long life of about more or less 900 years but instead man
would just have a limit of about 120 years old; but still sometimes man (after
Noah) reached the age of more of less 400 years and man would have a child
at an average age of more or less 34 years old? e) And on Genesis chapter 11
or during the period or time of Tower of Babel (about more or less 65
generations going back from Christ to Adam or near the time of the
Babylonian civilization), is there only one language worldwide?
Then the A.I. searched and searched on question/answer database from
former consensus of various scholars that were deposited as data in a
computer for retrieval of the answers for the questions; and answered: Since
the A.I. is confident enough that with regards to religion there is one thought
one purpose- to love and to even love ones enemy or one has no obligation
to others except to love- then if there are two or three or more thoughts and
purposes perhaps they are controversies. And the A.I is bound only to
answer as an opinion and not claiming anything as ultimate truth. So with
regards to question: a) Perhaps the details might be true that during those
times between 68 to 77 generations from Christ to Adam, man has an
average life span of 900 years; or else the Bible is mistaken literally but not
the essence or since the Bible is inspired. But since the A.I. is allowed to
give its own opinion perhaps the A.I. might be too controversial in his
opinion since the A.I. is programmed to have also some proportionate
consideration using science; and since anyway it is just an opinion, there is
nothing wrong to answer the scholar asking the question/s; or there is
nothing wrong or a hint to deceive or to downgrade a particular sensitive
group of deriding their previous claims but to clear something. Let’s first
have some conversion of years. If one generation means the average time
man could have a child; or the length of time for a father to have a new
generation, perhaps on today’s standard, women give birth at the average age
of 24 and men perhaps it is 27 years old. So one generation perhaps is more
or less 25 years in today’s standard. So if a man would live 100 years old…
divided by 25 equals 4 generations. Or Man would have a son-i at 25; and
son-i would have a son-ii at man-50; and son-ii would also have a son-iii at
man-75 and son-iii would have a son-iiii at man-100. Or if a man is 100
years old, there would be 1 generation for his and 3 more generations for his
offspring and his offspring’s offspring.
So if from Christ going back for example 56 generations (from family
tree of Christ on Luke chapter 3); or 56x 25=1,400 years back. Perhaps (or I
might be mistaken) it is the time of Abraham. And example from 56
generation back to 67 generation or 11 generations more back; perhaps it is
the time of Noah. And the average of one generation during the time of Noah
is 34 years; so 11x34=374 years. If from 67 generation back to 77 generation
or to Adam, the average to have a child is 115 years or 10x115=1,150 years
more back. Adding 1,400+374+1150=2924 0r rounded to 3000 years. If
from Christ to present there is more or less 2000 years, so from present to
Adam is 2000+3000=5000 or about 5000 years back.
Then a scholar with a scientific back ground on carbon dating of fossil of
Neanderthal man asked: (because he had some opinions about evolution of
modern elephants compared with the elephant mammoth and he derived a
parallelism with human and Neanderthal man) Granting or exaggerating that
there is 1000 years for every generation, so from Adam to Christ is
1000x77=77,000.00; and from Christ to present +2000 years or 72,000.00
years. Still the years with 72,000 are not sufficient to match the years of a
Neanderthal man with a carbon dating of 100,000 years old, my question is:
Is it true that scientific findings could never meet or agree because religious
and scientific point of reference and approach of investigation is different?
Then the A.I. was puzzled and searched for key and answered: With regards
to the ancestors of man since the author of the book of Genesis is unknown
perhaps it is just a legend. But the bottom line is that God is responsible that
man existed and continue existing; and science might be going to the real
and specifics how did man came to be. But if a religious leader keeps on
claiming that details in Genesis about the genealogy of Adam is the ultimate
truth then he is a very controversial leader and perhaps he is having proud
claims. Perhaps using controversial event which is a mystery just to prove he
is superior because no one could prove him wrong is perhaps a sign of
conceit. Perhaps the bottom line or key is that God is the father of Adam;
and Adam is a symbolic name for men’s first ancestor or origin.
With regards to question b): Perhaps in other version of the bible
“forever” might be different and it might be “for a long time of period”. If
“forever” really mean without end perhaps this is an exception of another
extreme. Example of extreme that is an exemption of balance is when
“only”, “alone” is connected or is describing God or any positive thing like
“only” the best TV net work. But when “only”, “alone”, “etc.” is describing
a man which denotes superiority and angers other groups then it is extreme.
Example- the leader of a group is claiming that he is the “only”
representative of God here on earth. Or that leader is “only” the most holy
person here on earth. Then the A.I. is programmed to mark it as extreme or
conceit, so with regards to the word “forever” if it denotes age of man it is
misleading. “Forever” should be “for a long period of time”. With regards to
“new earth” or new heaven in this planet earth and would never end or
“forever”, science can prove that the planet earth will end eventually
because the sun will eventually lost its energy. So perhaps “forever” would
mean again for a long period of time. Or if the new heaven or new paradise
is not here on earth but a spiritual state of being and still a mystery, A.I. is
programmed not to touch a mystery to state a fact but to say something for
an opinion…then it is allowed.
Perhaps spiritual new earth or new heaven might happen because Jesus
resurrected from the dead and stayed 40 days here on earth as a resurrected
body, eating, walking, talking…! The A.I. could suggest that after Jesus in
his resurrected body had eaten some food for his meal/s perhaps the food did
not undergo the normal process of digestion because… or else he would be
governed by normal hygiene principle…rather the food was also
transformed to undergo another supernatural law.
With regards to question c): perhaps 15-25 years is really the average
years to give birth around the world because perhaps for million of years
menstruation of girls have not changed…and menstruation is still from 13-
43 years old up to now. But if there is a certain tribe somewhere near the
river Tigris believed to be the place of the paradise of Adam & Eve that 115
was the average years for having children about 5000-10,000 years ago then
perhaps it is true. But the A.I. is bound not to disprove the account of what
really had happened in Adam’s times because it is still a mystery today and
perhaps it will remain a mystery until the end of time. But the A.I. could also
have an opinion on the mystery why there is sudden change of the average in
giving of child birth from an average of 115 years to an average of 34 years.
The key is that the people during those times somewhere near the river of
Tigris became wild and rebellious….! So what is important, man should not
be rebellious to God…that is the key. But with regards to scientific findings,
menstruation of a girl remains the same for perhaps a hundred thousand
years or more…!
For…d) Perhaps, yes, it is true that after Noah’s time man should not
have a long life of about more or less 900 years but instead man would just
have a limit of about 120 years old because men before were abusive …!
But that group of specie having 120-400 years of age should be in a certain
tribes only somewhere located or near the river of Tigris about 5,000 to
10,000 years ago; because there are other fossils of different specie or
human fossils that were found in Asia, Africa, and others continents; and that
the fossils have hundred thousand years age back from present determined
by using carbon dating method. And if the wisdom tooth is analyzed for each
fossil, perhaps the average life span then would just be 40-60 years old;
because perhaps of their harsh environment.
Perhaps for hundred thousand of years, man’s average life span is the
same; it’s only these modern times because of lifting the standard of living
of people that life’s span is becoming longer. Perhaps 50 years ago life span
is just 50 years old. With regards to a record that men has already reached
the age of 120 years perhaps there is no poof that a man had already reached
it. Perhaps the bottom line about changing from having 115 years to 34 years
of average years to have a child is that men were abusive and wild so they
were punished by God to have shorter life.
For…e). Perhaps if the writer of the event in the Tower of Babel is
talking of his own local world perhaps it is true that there is only one
language. But considering the detail account perhaps 5000 years ago or even
7,000 years ago, there are many dialects already around the world especially
centuries before Babylonian civilization had existed. Because earlier that
period, some Chinese tribes had perhaps existed and some were evolving to
be a civilization and they were talking and conversing their own dialects.
Perhaps if the account of the Tower of Babel is true, the lesson or key is that
men should never challenge or aspire to be like God by means of
boastfulness like building a very tall building to reach heaven. But still if
myth vs. fact would be done like in some TV show applying scientific and
common sense techniques…, perhaps today’s audiences would likely vote
that a sudden changing of dialects because a leader during those times just
threw an arrow to the sky to reach how far the heaven was (depicted from a
movie), and suddenly the sky got angry and the people building the tower
suddenly could not understand each other; perhaps the story is a myth. And
people today would have more votes as myth than fact because God is not a
cruel God. Or if the majority voted that story of Tower of Babel is a fact to
show how powerful and strict God is or was, there is no problem, and as
long as there should be no claims using the mystery to support that their
group is superior to other groups especially superior to people specializing
in studying evidences left behind by ancestors of men or specializing in
order to know the fact, not the legend behind the mysteries or myth.

From someone who might be mistaken,