{"id":90762,"date":"2021-03-12T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keriritenour.com\/grace\/caveman\/"},"modified":"2023-10-07T22:30:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T02:30:06","slug":"caveman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keriritenour.com\/grace\/caveman\/","title":{"rendered":"Caveman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Genesis 1:24, 25: And\nGod said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle,\nand creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.&nbsp; <strong><sup>25<\/sup><\/strong>And God made the beast of\nthe earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that\ncreepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">What\nabout cavemen?&nbsp; For the Scriptural answer, we\nexamine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>Historical Context: The author of the Book of Genesis is not identified\nbut attributed as Moses, writing around 1440 \u2013 1400 B.C.&nbsp; Many of the great questions of life are\nanswered in Genesis. (1) Where did I come from? (God created us &#8211; Genesis 1:1)\n(2) Why am I here? (we are here to have a relationship with God &#8211; Genesis 15:6)\n(3) Where am I going? (we have a destination after death &#8211; Genesis 25:8).\nGenesis appeals to the scientist, the historian, the theologian, the housewife,\nthe farmer, the traveler, and the man or woman of God. It is a fitting beginning\nfor God&#8217;s story of His plan for mankind, the Bible.&nbsp; The overriding theme of Genesis is God\u2019s\neternal existence and His creation of the world. There is no effort on the part\nof the author to defend the existence of God; he simply states that God is,\nalways was, and always will be, almighty over all. In the same way, we have\nconfidence in the truths of Genesis, despite the claims of those who would deny\nthem. All people, regardless of culture, nationality or language, are\naccountable to the Creator. But because of sin, introduced into the world at\nthe Fall, we are separated from Him. But through one small nation, Israel,\nGod\u2019s redemptive plan for mankind was revealed and made available to all by the\nwork of Jesus Christ foreshadowed in Genesis 3:15, immediately after the Fall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>Grammatical Usage:&nbsp; V. 24: \u201cGod\u201d\nin the Hebrew is \u201c&#8217;elohiym\u201d is a masculine noun in the plural (often referred\nto as the \u201cplural of majesty\u201d appearing some 2, 570 times meaning, \u201cthe Lord\nGod of heaven and earth\u2026the subject of all divine activity revealed to man\ntherefore the object of all true reverence and fear of man\u201d; \u201cearth\u201d or\n\u201c&#8217;erets\u201d meaning, \u201cinhabitants\u201d; \u201cforth\u201d or \u201cYatsa&#8217;\u201d meaning, \u201ccausative\u2026to\ncome from as a result\u2026an emphasis upon source or origin\u201d; \u201ccreature\u201d or \u201cNephesh\u201d\nmeaning, \u201cthat which breaths\u2026a breathing substance indicating life\u201d; V. 25:\n\u201ckind\u201d or \u201cMiyn\u201d meaning, \u201cspecies\u201d [Groups of living organisms belong in the\nsame created &#8220;kind&#8221; if they have descended from the same ancestral\ngene pool. This does not preclude new species because this represents a\npartitioning of the original gene pool. Information is lost or conserved not\ngained. A new species could arise when a population is isolated and inbreeding\noccurs. By this definition a new species is not a new &#8220;kind&#8221; but a\nfurther partitioning of an existing &#8220;kind&#8221; and does not support\nclassical evolutionist view which requires developments across kingdom, phyla\nand classes.]; \u201cgood\u201d or \u201cTowb\u201d meaning, \u201cpleasant, agreeable and of practical benefit\nin an aesthetic, substantive or economic sense.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>Literal Application: \u201cAnd \u2018elohiym, God of all creation who is be reverenced and feared said, \u2018Let the inhabitants cause to reproduce its life as offspring of the same species \u2013 livestock, small animals that scurry on the ground and wild animals.\u2019\u00a0 And that is what happened.\u00a0 <strong><sup>25<\/sup><\/strong> God made all sorts of wild animals, livestock, and small animals, each able to produce offspring of the same kind. And God saw that it was pleasant, agreeable and practical in that each proved a marvel as well as fulfilling a function within creation.\u201d<br> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contextual Interpretation: The basic creation story is found in Genesis 1 and 2 and with the account of the Garden of Eden in chapter 3. Genesis 1 begins before the existence of anything except God Himself. Since this is the case, there is no such thing as a \u201cpre-historic\u201d time. God\u2019s revelation of Himself and His will for mankind is the beginning. In this beginning, God created everything in the universe in six literal 24-hour days. This includes all the heavenly bodies (including every star and planet), as well as everything on the earth. While the triune nature of God is not explicit in the Genesis account, God does reveal an \u201cus\u201d within the Godhead (Genesis 1:26). The Spirit is active in creation (Genesis 1:2) as is Christ (John 1:1-3; Colossians 1:15-17).<br> <br>In the six days of Creation, God formed the universe and the earth (day 1), the sky and the atmosphere (day 2), dry land and all plant life (day 3), the stars and heavenly bodies including the sun and moon (day 4), birds and water creatures (day 5), and all the animals and man (day 6).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Chapter 1:24-31 is by far the longest section given\nover to a particular day, indicating that day 6 is the peak of interest for\nthis passage.&nbsp; The final region to be\nfilled is the dry land, or Earth (as it has been designated in v.10).&nbsp; Here a significant distinction is drawn\nbetween all the living creatures that are created to live on the dry land, and\nhuman beings.&nbsp; Whereas vv. 24-25 deal\nwith the \u201cliving creatures\u201d that the earth is to bring forth, vv. 26-30\nconcentrate on the special status assigned to humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Chapter 1:24-25, our specific text, deals with\nlivestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth.&nbsp; These terms group the land-dwelling animals\ninto three broad categories, reflecting the way nomadic shepherds would\nexperience them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>the domestic stock animals (e.g., sheep, goats, cattle\nand perhaps camels and horses);<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the small crawlers (e.g., rats and mice, lizards,\nspiders);<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the larger game and predatory animals (e.g., gazelles,\nlions).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This list is not intended to prove exhaustive, but\nprovide examples as to the respective categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mankind is special above all other creatures because he bears the image of God and has the responsibility to steward and subdue the earth. All of creation was completed in six days in all its vast array and wondrous beauty. The six literal 24-hour days have no time spans separating the days. God announced that His creation was very good. Genesis 2 sees the completion of God\u2019s work and gives a detailed account of the creation of man. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The seventh day is marked by God resting. This is not because God was tired, but He rested or ceased from His act of creating. This establishes a pattern of taking one day in seven for rest and sets the number of days in the week still in use today. The keeping of the Sabbath will be a distinguishing mark of God\u2019s chosen people (Exodus 20:8-11.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Genesis next takes a closer look at the creation of man. This passage is not a second creation account, nor is it contradictory to Genesis 1. The account simply takes a step away from a linear report to refocus the reader on God\u2019s work concerning man specifically. God formed man from the dust of the earth He had previously created. After forming man, God breathed life into him. The fact that God chose to form man this way shows His great care in this process. God next placed the first man, Adam, in a special place, the Garden of Eden. Eden was beautiful and bountiful. Adam had almost everything he needed including food and productive work. However, God was not done with man. <br> <br>God helped Adam to see his need for a mate by having him review all the other creatures and naming them. Adam understood that he needed a mate. God caused Adam to sleep and then formed Eve with as much care as he formed Adam. Eve was made from Adam\u2019s rib. When Adam saw her, he understood that she was special. She was his counterpart, his complement, and flesh of his flesh. God made both Adam and Eve in His image (Genesis 1:27). This passage establishes the family as the basic building block of society (Genesis 1:24; Matthew 19:5-6.) As a God-ordained institution, marriage is to be only between one man and one woman. Adam and Eve were created in a state of innocence (Genesis 1:25) and had not committed any sin. They enjoyed communion with God in Eden. Part of the relationship was the inclusion of one simple rule: Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat from one tree and only one tree in the entire Garden (Genesis 1:17).<br> <br>At some point Eve was tempted by the serpent to eat from this one tree, which she did. Adam also ate from the forbidden tree. Adam and Eve sinned against God and lost their innocence (Genesis 2:8-12). Sin brought consequences. God cursed the serpent to crawl forever on the ground and be hated by men. God cursed Eve to pain in childbirth and conflict with her husband and He cursed Adam with toil and hardship in his labors (Genesis 3:14-19). Part of the consequences for their sin included Adam and Eve being expelled from the Garden (Genesis 3:22-24.) But also included in the consequences is a message of hope. The first mention of the coming Messiah is found in Genesis 3:15. He would come to crush the Serpent (Satan), but not before Satan bruised Him at the Cross. Even in the midst of sin and its dire consequences, God shows Himself to be a God of grace and mercy and love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>Scriptural Comparison: <strong>What about \u201cTheistic Evolution\u201d?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Under the banner of\n\u201ctheistic evolution,\u201d a growing number of Christians maintain that God used\nevolution as His method for creation. This, in my estimation, is the worst of\nall possibilities. It is one thing to believe in evolution; it is quite another\nto blame God for it. Not only is <em>theistic\nevolution <\/em>a contradiction in terms\u2014like the phrase <em>flaming snowflakes<\/em>\u2014but in the\nwords of the Nobel prize-winning evolutionist Jacques Monod: \u201c[Natural]\nselection is the blindest, and most cruel way of evolving new species\u2026.The\nstruggle for life and elimination of the weakest is a horrible process, against\nwhich our whole modern ethic revolts\u2026.I am surprised that a Christian would\ndefend the idea that this is the process which God more or less set up in order\nto have evolution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">First, the biblical\naccount of creation specifically states that God created living creatures\naccording to their own \u201ckinds\u201d (Gen.&nbsp;1:24\u201325). As confirmed by science,\nthe DNA for a fetus is not the DNA for a frog, and the DNA for a frog is not\nthe DNA for a fish; rather the DNA of a fetus, frog, or fish is uniquely\nprogrammed for reproduction after its own kind. Thus while the Bible allows for\n<em>micro<\/em>evolution\n(transitions within \u201cthe kinds\u201d) it does not allow for <em>macro<\/em>evolution (amoebas evolving\ninto apes or apes evolving into astronauts).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Furthermore,\nevolutionary biology cannot account for metaphysical realities such as ego and\nethos. Without data demonstrating that physical processes can produce\nmetaphysical realities, there is no warrant for dogmatically declaring that\nhumans evolved from hominids (two-legged primates).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Finally,\nan omnipotent, omniscient God does not have to painfully plod through millions\nof mistakes, misfits, and mutations in order to have fellowship with humans. As\nthe biblical account of creation confirms, He can create humans instantaneously\n(Gen.&nbsp;2:7) and had immediate fellowship (Genesis 2:16; 3:9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>Evolutionism <\/em>is fighting for its very life. Rather than prop it up with theories\nlike theistic evolution, thinking people everywhere must be given to\ndemonstrating its demise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>What about Neanderthal man?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The first Neanderthal bones were unearthed in\n1856 and were soon touted as supporting Darwin&#8217;s\n1859 theory of human descent from the animals. And ever since, Neanderthals\nhave been presented as beetle-browed, bowlegged, brutes-half ape and half man.\nSchool students and museum visitors worldwide still believe that this\n&#8220;caveman&#8221; was a sub-human ancestor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It surprises many to find out that in recent years,\nNeanderthal has been upgraded to fully human\u2014an ethnic group with certain\ndistinctive characteristics, but a bonafide member of <em>Homo sapiens. <\/em>The\nonly controversy, which remains, is whether or not the Neanderthal group went\nextinct or merged with other humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The <em>Homo sapiens <\/em>designation was given after it\nwas recognized that Neanderthals had, on average, a larger brain size than\nmodern man, with a fully developed language center. Culturally, he cared for\nhis sick and elderly, buried his dead, employed art and religious rites,\nappreciated agriculture, clothing, and music. His cultural level was\n&#8220;primitive&#8221; compared to 21<sup>st<\/sup> century technology, but not\nall that different from many people groups worldwide in recent centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">So what do we make of the recent recovery of Neanderthal\nDNA which places him genetically outside the range of modern human ethnic groups?&nbsp; Does this prove the evolution of man from the\napes?&nbsp; A close look at the real data\nactually supports the creationist view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The DNA was recovered from the bone of the first\nNeanderthal discovered, an individual so riddled with rickets and old age that\nhis legs had bowed. The DNA was mitochondrial DNA, not from the cell nucleus,\nand only 379 base pairs out of 16,500 (thus about 2%) of the total. It was\nfound to differ from standard human mtDNA in 27 locations. Since modern human\nmtDNA differs on average in only eight locations within this stretch of 379, it\nwas concluded that Neanderthals were probably not closely related to humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">However, modern human mtDNA varies beyond the average,\nwith the extremes statistically overlapping the Neanderthal measurement. Since\nall modern humans are interfertile (can mate and reproduce), this measurement\ndoes not place them outside the family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">From a creationist perspective, the Neanderthals were\ndescendants of Noah\u2014a language group that migrated away from Babel and found themselves in harsh &#8220;Ice\nAge&#8221; conditions with a meager lifestyle. Linguistic and geographic\nisolation may have produced a variant, but still human, genome. Whether they\nwent extinct or interbred with others is not yet known, but from what we do\nknow based upon recent DNA evidence, they were as human as you and I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Bible speaks of the\nvery earliest cultures as being highly civilized, with musical instruments,\nwoven tents and clothes, metal working, animal husbandry, etc. (Genesis 4:3-4;\n17-22).&nbsp; The fact that we find people in\nthe very earliest times living in caves simply means that they lived in caves\ninstead of houses. We find people around the world doing this very thing today.\nFor instance, some families living along a 40 mile stretch of the Rhone River\nin France\ndwell in the caves that are situated there.&nbsp;\nThe Bible has incidents of cave dwelling also. Refugees lived in caves (Genesis\n19:30; Judges 6:2; 1 Samuel 13:6).&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Man and Apes Have a Separate Ancestry?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Although highly imaginative &#8220;transitional\nforms&#8221; between man and ape-like creatures have been constructed by\nevolutionists based on very fragmentary evidence, the fossil record actually\ndocuments the separate origin of primates in general (Kelso, A.J.,<em> Physical\nAnthropology<\/em>, 2nd ed., Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1974. p 142),\nmonkeys (Ibid., pp.150,151), apes (Simons, E.L., <em>Annals N.Y. Acad. Science<\/em>.\nV.102, 1962, p.293, Simons, E.L., &#8220;The Early Relatives of Man,&#8221; <em>Scientfic\nAmerican<\/em>, V.211, July 1964 p 50), and men. In fact, Lord Zuckerman (not a\ncreationist) states that there are no &#8220;fossil traces&#8221; of a\ntransformation from an ape-like creature to man (Zuckerman, Sir Solly, <em>Beyond\nthe Ivory Tower<\/em>, New York,\nTaplinger Pub. Co., 1970, p.64). &nbsp;The fossils of Neanderthal Man were once\nconsidered to represent a primitive sub-human (Homo neanderthalensis), but\nthese &#8220;primitive&#8221; features are now known to have resulted from\nnutritional deficiencies and pathological conditions; he is now classified as\nfully human (Ivanhoe, Francis, &#8220;Was Virchow Right about Neandert[h]al?&#8221;,\n<em>Nature<\/em> V. 227, 1970, p. 57).&nbsp; Ramapithecus\nwas once considered to be partially man-like, but is now known to be fully\nape-like (Zuckerman, pp. 75-94; Eckhardt, Robert B., &#8220;Population Genetics\nand Human Origins&#8221;, <em>Scientific American<\/em>, V.226, 1972, pp.94,101),&nbsp; Australopithecus, in the view of some leading\nevolutionists, was not intermediate between ape and man and did not walk\nupright (Oxnard, Charles E., &#8220;Human Fossils: New Views of Old Bones,&#8221;\n<em>American Biology Teacher<\/em>, V.41, 1979, p.264).&nbsp; The strong bias of many evolutionists in\nseeking a link between apes and man is shown by the near-universal acceptance\nof two &#8220;missing links&#8221; that were later proved to be a fraud in the\ncase of Piltdown Man (Eoanthropus) and a pig&#8217;s tooth in the case of Nebraska Man\n(Hesperopithecus) (Straus, William L., &#8220;The Great Piltdown Hoax,&#8221; <em>Science<\/em>,\nV.119, 1954, p.265 (Piltdown Man); Gregory, William K., &#8220;Hesperopithecus\nApparently Not an Ape Nor a Man,&#8221; Science, V.66,1927, p. 579).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Creation\/Evolution Model Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table has-medium-font-size\"><table><tbody><tr><td>\n  <strong>The\n  creation model includes the scientific evidence and the related inferences\n  suggesting that:<\/strong>\n  <\/td><td>\n  <strong>The\n  evolution model includes the scientific evidence and the related inferences\n  suggesting that:<\/strong>\n  <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n  I. The universe and\n  the Solar system were suddenly created.\n  <\/td><td>\n  I. The universe and\n  the solar system emerged by naturalistic processes.\n  <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n  II. Life was\n  suddenly created.\n  <\/td><td>\n  II. Life emerged\n  from nonlife by naturalistic processes.\n  <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n  III. All present\n  living kinds of animals and plants have remained fixed since creation, other\n  than extinctions, and genetic variation in originally created kinds has only\n  occurred within narrow limits.\n  <\/td><td>\n  III. All present\n  kinds emerged from simpler earlier kinds, so that single-celled organisms\n  evolved into invertebrates, then vertebrates, then amphibians, then reptiles,\n  then mammals, then primates, including man.\n  <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n  IV. Mutation and\n  natural selection are insufficient to have brought about any emergence of\n  present living kinds from a simple primordial organism.\n  <\/td><td>\n  IV. Mutation and\n  natural selection have brought about the emergence of present complex kinds\n  from a simple primordial organism.\n  <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n  V. Man and apes\n  have a separate ancestry.\n  <\/td><td>\n  V. Man and apes\n  emerged from a common ancestor.\n  <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n  VI. The earth&#8217;s\n  geologic features appear to have been fashioned largely by rapid, catastrophic\n  processes that affected the earth on a global and regional scale\n  (catastrophism).\n  <\/td><td>\n  VI. The earth&#8217;s\n  geologic features were fashioned largely by slow, gradual processes, with\n  infrequent catastrophic events restricted to a local scale\n  (uniformitarianism).\n  <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n  VII. The inception\n  of the earth and of living kinds may have been relatively recent.\n  <\/td><td>\n  VII. The inception\n  of the earth and then of life must have occurred several billion years ago.\n  <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>Conclusion: Dr.\nLouis Bounoure, former director of research at the French National\n Center for Scientific\nResearch, calls evolution \u201ca fairy tale for grown-ups.\u201d (Phillip E. Johnson, <em>Darwin on Trial<\/em>, 2nd ed. (Downers Grove, IL:\nInterVarsity Press, 1993) I call it a cruel hoax! In fact, the arguments that\nsupport evolutionary theory are astonishingly weak.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">First,\nthe fossil record is an embarrassment to evolutionists. No verifiable\ntransitions from one kind to another have as yet been found. Charles Darwin had\nan excuse; in his day fossil finds were relatively scarce. Today, however, we\nhave an abundance of fossils. Still, we have yet to find even one legitimate\ntransition from one kind to another.&nbsp; In\nfact, as demonstrated with Neanderthal man, the modern DNA research technique\ndenies the heretofore held transitional theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Furthermore,\nin Darwin\u2019s day\nsuch enormously complex structures as a human egg were thought to be quite\nsimple\u2014for all practical purposes, little more than a microscopic blob of\ngelatin. Today, we know that a fertilized human egg is among the most organized,\ncomplex structures in the universe. In an age of scientific enlightenment, it\nis incredible to think people are willing to maintain that something so vastly\ncomplex arose by any other means then design. Like an egg or the human eye, the\nuniverse is a masterpiece of precision and design that could not have come into\nexistence by chance.&nbsp; Instead it was\ncreated by and reflection of \u2018elohiym who pronounced it \u201cgood.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Finally,\nwhile chance is a blow to the theory of evolution, the laws of science are a\nbullet to its head. The basic laws of science, including the laws of <em>effects <\/em>and their causes (again,\nGenesis 1:24, \u201cforth\u201d) \u2014<em>energy\nconservation <\/em>and <em>entropy<\/em>\u2014undergird\nthe creation model for origins and undermine the evolutionary hypothesis. While\nI would fight for a person\u2019s right to have faith in science fiction, we must\nresist evolutionists who attempt to brainwash people into thinking that\nevolution is science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">There is scientific evidence for creation from cosmology, thermodynamics, paleontology, biology, mathematical probability, geology, and other sciences.&nbsp; There are many scientists in each field who conclude that the scientific data best supports the creation model, not the evolution model leaving us with yet more evidence as to the demonstrated abilities of our God and the truth of His Word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis 1:24, 25: And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.&nbsp; 25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,534],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Caveman - Grace Evangelical Free Church<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Caveman - Grace Evangelical Free Church\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Genesis 1:24, 25: And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.&nbsp; 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