Adam & Eve, about how many years ago?

Question

Just to make comparisons with the evidence of caveman, neanderthals, iceman according to historians & that scientific carbon-dating.

Thanks!

Answer 1

How about this perspective?

The Jewish calendar started in appx. 3751 BCE (Almost 5800 years ago).

The Book of Job is considered to be the oldest book composed, in the Old Testament, circa 2500 BCE.

Moses, who composed the Torah (First five books of the Old Testament) lived circa 1600 BCE...

Eden is located in Mesopotamia, and the oldest written record is the Egyptian calendar (4241 BCE).

Farming & the domestication of livestock started in Mesopotamia within the last 10,000 years.

The Bibical Flood took place in Mesopotamia, appx. 6500 years ago (fossil evidence), and in Genesis, it says that Semitic tribes arrived in Sumer/Mesopotamia (Shinar, in Hebrew) from the east, after the "Flood"...

Hunter/Gatherer (Non-farming/Not domesticators of livestock) Neanderthals & Cro-Magnon "cavemen" all left Europe by the end of the last Ice Age, at least 12,000 years ago...

The Iceman was carbon-dated to around 5000+ years ago, so he probably came a little after the Semitic origins...

Answer 2

According to anyone sane; no years ago for mythical people.

Answer 3

At least Genesis has a beginning and is in general believable.

Answer 4

According to Christianity the human race is only 5,000 years old. Scientist argue current modern man is 35,000 to 200,000 thousand years old, with relatives expanding 30 million years.

Answer 5

Where did Cane and Able get wives.  Some versions have them marrying their twin sisters who were born at the same time.  It sounds like a rewrite to correct the logical fallacy.  It has no scientific validity and is obviously just a story.

Answer 6

no age for mythical people? Is it not possible that they did exist, but maybe were the first to think up God? or how about this, I thought somewhere in the bible it say 10,000 years is a day to God, so couldnt one say it took 60,000 years to make earth? I'm a little crazy though....

Answer 7

The Discovery Channel's program lists "The Real Eve," the one woman everyone on the planet can trace their roots back to, lived about 160,000 years ago.

Answer 8

It mentions Cain and Abel being a farmer and animal breeder so it is after agriculture started but the Garden of Eden could be talking about memories of Hunter and Gathering days putting it back to the caveman period.

Answer 9

Adam and Eve - Five to six thousand years ago. Yah I know. How come the children arrived before the parents eh? Don't ask me!

Answer 10

it depends upon your satisfaction

Answer 11

Evidence & Adam and Eve don't go together.