>>42922701>>42922712In the paleolithic and mesolithic, mankind existed only as big-game hunters and hunter-gatherers.
The Neolithic, according to carbon dating, several million years later than the earliest markedly homosapien skeletons, was the point at which man first accomplished domestication of plant and animal, with civilization following quite quickly afterwards in geologic terms.
In the biblical narrative, Cain and Abel, generation 2, are a farmer and a shepherd, occupations which are integral to their story, as the difference in specialized occupation leads to different sacrifices, ending in disparate divine acceptance, jealousy, and ultimately murder.
If the earth is old, why does mankind allegedly lose the very basic and exceedingly useful concepts of domestication, a practice which it is largely unheard of for humans to lose once acquired, no matter how extensive civilization collapses (reenacted literally every time a child plays survival minecraft.), to the point that even now some extant studied but uncontacted tribal civiizations have no concept of agriculture or husbandry, for 2.6 million years.
If the earth is young, whence come allegedly 2.6 million years (though presumably only a few thousand, and the carbon dating is tampered with by extenuating circumstances or hell I've even heard (unsupported) claims of global anti-christian conspiracy) of human bones, with sewn skins and cloth, pottery, carvings, paintings, and occasionally intact DNA, all visibly without the hallmark traces of domestication? How did they make sin offerings to appease God during all that time without raising captive animals like Abel?
Were they children from before adam and eve left the garden? And if so, why do they show signs of typical earthly suffering, and why did they not get to remain in the garden if only their parents sinned, after they themselves were born?
