This requires Ross to postulate the existence of creatures with human-like characteristics, but ‘spiritless’ (see Skull Wars). But human fossils are found ‘dated’ earlier than Adam’s genealogies could possibly allow. Although he believes that God made Adam from the dust, he also accepts the evolutionists’ long-age interpretation of the fossil record. He also believes in the same general sequence of events and the same order of appearance as evolutionists. Ross does not believe in biological evolution, although he accepts cosmic and geologic evolution and the evolutionary timescale. And leading ‘progressive creationist’ Hugh Ross teaches something similar when he says that “bipedal, tool-using, large-brained primates roamed Earth for hundreds of thousands (perhaps a million) years”. Pre-Adamic man: were there human beings on Earth before Adam?īy Russell Grigg stock.xchng: hisks & Flickr: wayfaring strangeĬould there have been human creatures, commonly called ‘pre-Adamites’, living on Earth before God created Adam? Many readers, no doubt, will think this a foolish question, but it is, in fact, the belief of many evangelicals. Sharing purposes, readers are advised to supplement these historic articles with more up-to-date ones suggested in the Related Articles and Further Reading below. Editor’s note: As Creation magazine has been continuously published since 1978, weĪre publishing some of the articles from the archives for historical interest, such as this.