I get sick of hearing and reading about the so-called “Paleo Diet” — presuming to represent what mankind ate based on evolutionary development. The promoters disparage anything grain-related as not what we were evolved to eat. As if they would know.
Well, I don’t really believe humans evolved from lower species. Yeah, I’m not quite a Creationist in that I don’t buy all the stuff they put out, but I do believe the Bible does provide a different picture from that of the heretic Darwin. Later evolutionary theories are even more laughable. The first humans were rather civilized and most certainly did eat grains. It was later, more brutish fallen mankind, cast out of the Garden of Eden, who became nomadic carnivores, a distinct decline from God’s ideal.
I don’t pretend to offer dating methods, but I find the arrogance of most Paleontology studies insufferable, as if we can somehow really figure much of anything from digging in the dirt. I’m quite agnostic about a whole range of such things, utterly certain we can’t know and don’t really need to know. Few ever bother to include a wider range of pertinent facts when they guesstimate what life was like even as near in time as the end of the Stone Age. Evidence of cataclysmic change is ignored because it’s easier to theorize on the model of steady state progress. All it takes is a single unrecorded shift in some portions of the earth’s crust to invalidate the entire house of cards used for dating pretty much anything.
That means I also don’t necessarily agree with the dates any particular group of scholars propose for biblical events. Those events were recorded with an entirely different purpose than most of them recognize, and in a manner which defies our Western analysis. It has to be read with the same Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) outlook as the writers had, and seeking the same purpose they had for writing. That would pretty much exclude easy dating of events, except in relative terms. In many cases, the writers skipped over events we would consider critical for historical relevance, but which they considered irrelevant to the divine narrative. Instead, they included a whole range of historically insignificant material because the point was mankind has no clue unless they first listen to God.
So any presumed Paleo Diet is actually more like trying to ape the filthy scum kicked out of the Garden of Eden, and descending into the same filth in rejecting God’s revelation. If anything, the heavy duty hunter like Nimrod is the archetype of evil on the earth. The Sons of God stayed in their tribal villages, ate their crops and herd animals, including whole grains, and blessed the Lord who provided all these things for their devotion.
Science be damned; God’s revelation covers what really matters. The demands of faith are inherently irrational, because what is in our best interests are seldom within our feeble intellectual grasp. The unspeakable horror of human hubris has done enough evil, thanks. I’ll follow Christ and rejoice in what that brings me.
