Scientists have recently discovered that all of mankind descended from two common parents.
Interesting.
Oh look, it’s almost like the Bible is true or something. Funny how that works.
Scientists: claim that the Bible is false because of science.
Science: starts to prove the happenings of the Bible.
Scientists:
So you all are arguing for pre-adamic peoples?
Wait I’m confused
People in this thread are thinking that the 200,000 year old pair of humans in this scientific article are Adam and Eve.
The problem is, the article clearly cites a catastrophe that severely reduced the human population prior to those two humans living.
So if those two were Adam and Eve, then that would mean that some pre-Adamic peoples lived first.
Personally, I do believe that this scientific revelation is indicative of Noah and the flood.
But I shared it to spark debate and to get non-Christians thinking on their previous opinions.
I didn’t share it because I believed it was a flawless understanding of human history.
It is sparking debate then. Kudos
Noah’s flood left us with more than two people.
If you accept the regional flood interpretation, that number climbs
Yes, more than two people, who were also all descended from Adam and Eve.
They also stated in the study that 9 out of 10 known animal species also descended from the same two ancestors. The 1 out of 10 is still debatable according to the findings of their study.
Which is why I believe this distinct study is indicative of the event of Noah, due to the animals.
But also of Adam and Eve, as the two common ancestors all of humanity shares.
Edit: we can’t know absolutely everything in this world anyway. So I could very well be wrong about a great many things that are not specifically documented in the Bible and other books of history. I did, however, find this enjoyable for those of an atheistic viewpoint who use Adam and Havah as a “GOTCHA” to say that all the Bible crumbles from there.
I don’t accept a “regional flood” model. How can one small region (ie, Israel) be filled with enough water to flood it in 40 days and 40 nights, without any of that water, I don’t know, running out somewhere else? It’s not like there’s several large bodies of water – not to mention the lowest point on earth – in the same region that would drain off all that water before it got high enough to “cover the high hills” upward of 20 cubits.
People are so often violently more angry about animal abusers than they are about people who hurt other people and that is a thought that really freaks me out.
What was it that was emphasized in The Last Jedi? What was that line again? Oh yeah, “let the past die, kill it if you have to.”
But dear God, will Disney/Lucasfilm milk the shit out of the past as much as possible.
Look, I can see why this is something that might be a good idea because it’s a more compact why to introduce younger generations into the Star Wars galaxy. However, I’m tired of seeing Disney/Lucasfilm being this oblivious to their own actions. They rely on banking on our nostalgia feelings for the old stuff yet push the narrative that we need to embrace the bland things they push out and disregard what came before. It’s not right to me.
Because they realized that banking on Johnson was the dumbest choice they could have ever made. Solo’s commercial failure screwed them pretty hard.
There’s no way they can make up for what The Last Jedi did unless they literally undo it in the next film.
Like, tell me that wasn’t Luke Skywalker, but some asshole clone who didn’t know what he was talking about at all, and the real Luke is still out there. Tell me that the Force DOESN’T just auto-balance by automatically making Sith to counter good Jedi and vice-versa (thereby making every Jedi who ever trained directly responsible for creating an equal Sith Lord, etc). Have an important, trustworthy character tell me that Holdo was a disappointing leader who should NOT be emulated. Tell me that Rey actually DOES have to practice and work hard to become a great Jedi – that the impression of her doing everything so awesomely and so effortlessly because she was magically gifted the power to be effortlessly awesome at birth was somehow a “trick,” just some fakery.
And so on. And so on. And so on.
They can’t make me care ever again, no matter what, unless they
completely undo Episode VIII. And they aren’t really ready to do that —
which is sort of understandable, since it just came out and made so much
money even with all the backlash — so I don’t see any chance for me to
give a shit about these throwbacks.
And for that reason: I don’t care one single shitabout ANYTHING Disney does with Star Wars. They utterly ruined it for me, and even going back to the old canon is just like “Oh look at all these characters who turned out to be MASSIVE FAILURES IN EVERY RESPECT AND THEN DIED. Look at this idiot training to be a Jedi even though that will only make the Dark Side get stronger and grow an equivalent new Sith. Oh man, remember how I always wanted a female lead Jedi growing up? And then when we got one, she wasn’t allowed to earn her power under her own esteem – instead she had to just be magically handed the ability to do anything, ever? Because I guess boys can work hard and EARN things, but girls have to be given handouts!! WOW. FUCKING ASSHOLES.”
Fuck you, Disney. Every time I see Star Wars news now, I feel SAD. When I think about “Star Wars Land” in Disney World, I am goddamn depressed that I’ll have to see that. And I spent nearly 30 years LOVING this.
I’ve never seen someone handed a bar of gold who could so easily turn it into something repulsive. It’s amazing, but you just make me feel awful every time you say “Star Wars” now. I just want it all to go away.
I wouldn’t even mind a full fucking reboot anymore… and I used to be afraid of that day coming. But christ, just UNDO THIS.
My only change to the above would be to add in TFA and Episode VII for what was done to Han and Leia (or swap it in as the starting point). Because so much this…
I am baffled by every decision they’ve made. I can’t imagine who thought what they did to the OT characters was a good idea.
Honestly, that’s a completely fair response.
I really hated the Han/Leia endgame crash-and-burn, the fact that the ONLY next-gen Skywalker was evil, and the fact that they retconned Han into going back to Episode IV-level characterization. It was already a slap to my face.
I accepted Han’s death was something Harrison Ford was going to want if
he came back AT ALL, but… that didn’t mean he had to come back like
THAT. Or die like THAT. Y’know?
The worst thing possible was to say “Actually, that happy ending on Return of the Jedi
was total bullshit, and everything has been SUPER TERRIBLE since then!”
Which is what they did, but… I had some hope left when it was over.
I admit I still felt like “Well… if they can
explain what’s going on with Rey’s abilities in a good way, and they can
do something really great with Luke and Leia and this ‘Snoke’ guy in
the remaining flims, and maybe do something REALLY new next time… this
could still work out. I’m semi-open to it.”
Maybe Luke was actually happy and did
this for a good reason? Maybe he could bring us the “Hope” that Star
Wars needs?
Maybe he and Leia can share some stories of the good times that happened in-between? Etc?
Hahahahaha. Ha.
Ha.
Rogue One helped me have a little more faith.. That felt different, it felt like we had something new… but also intensely respectful of what came before. It was “different in tone and style, but in the same world.” That’s exactly what I want.
See, when you give me a new Star Wars… I want to see new things. New
species, new kinds of intrigue, or new kinds of action, or a new kind of
enemy or just… SOMETHING new. Y’know how the Prequels felt so utterly
different, but it was still clearly Star Wars at the same time? That’s
actually a great thing – to give us so many new settings, new worlds,
new species and new approaches and then have it still FEEL like it’s in
the same galaxy is exactly what i’m after.
As it turns out, the only idea for “New” Disney ever had was “reverse all the lore and characterization into its EXACT OPPOSITE” without doing a single fucking thing to give us real creativity. God, the fucking “Legends” books have so much more creativity than that. SO MUCH. They did some things I would’ve never imagined. Some of it was stupid! But a lot of it was also amazing! And the Disney crew mined precisely ZERO OF IT in favor of just going backwards to the ‘70s.
Anyway, yeah. The sequels are a mistake. TFA teed up the failure and TLJ drove it through to the green. Episode IX will be the final putt; the hole-in-one that cements this as the Worst of Star Wars.
And truthfully, I feel like Disney’s insistence on throwing out Lucas’ sequel outline and keeping him far away because he had a “toxic reputation” with fans? That’s really what murdered it.
Get outta here, prequel-haters. Every single one was better than these things.
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