How history corresponds with the Biblical story of Eden

Rambozo said:

Yes, humans lived as hunter-gatherers for the vast majority of their history, with estimates suggesting this way of life persisted for 90% to 99.4% of human existence, or for nearly 2 million years. This lifestyle, which involved foraging for plants and animals, was the longest-lasting and most successful human adaptation until the Neolithic Revolution and the rise of agriculture around 12,000 years ago.

For most of human history, people lived close to nature in hunter-gatherer societies. The advent of civilization is a much more recent thing, and with it have come ills such as the emergence of modern diseases, which hunter-gatherers did not have to worry about.

This corresponds with how, in the Bible, Adam and Eve lived close to nature in the Garden of Eden, up until the Fall of Man and the advent of civilization.

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ttwtt78640 said:

There are numerous differences between your post and the tale of Adam and Eve in the Old Testament.

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Rambozo said:

And?

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ttwtt78640 said:

See edit. The only commonality is the existence of humans.

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Rambozo said:

No, the commonality is the existence of humans as hunter-gatherers who lived close to nature.

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Rambozo said:

Yes, humans lived as hunter-gatherers for the vast majority of their history, with estimates suggesting this way of life persisted for 90% to 99.4% of human existence, or for nearly 2 million years. This lifestyle, which involved foraging for plants and animals, was the longest-lasting and most successful human adaptation until the Neolithic Revolution and the rise of agriculture around 12,000 years ago.

For most of human history, people lived close to nature in hunter-gatherer societies. The advent of civilization is a much more recent thing, and with it have come ills such as the emergence of modern diseases, which hunter-gatherers did not have to worry about.

This corresponds with how, in the Bible, Adam and Eve lived close to nature in the Garden of Eden, up until the Fall of Man and the advent of civilization.

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ataraxia said:

If I ever developed acute appendicitis, I would much rather be alive now than then. You?

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Rambozo said:

No, the commonality is the existence of humans as hunter-gatherers who lived close to nature.

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Rambozo said:

That's assuming that you ever would have had to worry about developing it.

Many of the diseases which humans face are the result of living in civilization.

When Europeans came to North America, they brought with them diseases caused by living in dirty cities, which Native Americans had no immunity to, but never needed one.

So sure, if hunter-gatherers were victims of modern diseases, they would have needed a cure, but they lived for most of human history without such cures and didn't need them. At very least, their populations never died off.

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