Bro. Harrison’s article in The Tidings of January, 2014, raised a few questions in my mind. In citing Ryan and Pitman’s suggestions about Noah’s flood being confined to the Black Sea region and the climate conditions inherent to their theory, Bro. Harrison highlights their comment about “stone age hunters and gatherers” being forced to areas where fresh water could be found and temperatures would be more favorable.
In the context of this, Bro. Harrison places the “appearance” of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden in general, along with the possible reason that Cain’s curse would have been viewed as greater than he could bear.
The question this raises for me is what exactly is Bro. Harrison suggesting about the Biblical account in Gen 1-4? Was the Earth only blessed with plenteous vegetation in Eden while the rest of the world languished in ice? Were there other humans around at this time? Were Adam and Eve just a subset of these “hunters and gatherers”? Were there other humans around outside the garden? Did these survive the postulated “local” flood?
If I have understood correctly the scenario suggested by this article, then this, in turn, raises other questions about the veracity of these early chapters in Genesis.
Might it just be possible that what Ryan and Pitman discovered is post-Noahaic flood glaciation, and what David Rohl mentions (cited by Bro. Harrison) about the location for the origins of civilization is actually the location of Noah and his family from whom all human life on earth and civilization branched out according to Genesis 10?
The Origin of the Organic World – Part One