the bible does not prove anything about god, adam or eve.
there was no one to write a documentary account in the early stages of evolution
the bible is only a couple millenia old and is just a book of campfire stories told to sway people into how to act and not act
however before the bible there there were life and laws. and other books and other religions.
Well, yes and no. Consider recorded court case from, say, 1800 to 1810. Are they the truth or not? Is what is written in those court cases true, or is it false? Did it happen, or didn't it? Was there proof or wasn't there?
Nobody is alive from back then. All that we have is a system of credibility. Certainly we are a bit more advanced in forensics, but they had real proof in many cases way back then. The funny thing about it is, we have to trust almost 100 percent of those case writings, because there is no way to go back and apply better forensics.
You could say, "Naw. Those cases never happened. Somebody just wrote down a bunch of fiction stories."
The answer is that we have a flow that goes back several decades, where we have living judges, juries, prosecutors and defendants, who are still alive, who can attest to the fact that several recent decades of court cases really happened. We have proof available that we can examine today, and we have the witnesses who will attest to the fact that those cases are real, if necessary.
There is no reason to doubt that the flow of archives all over the country are lies about what happened back in 1800 to 1810. Rather, the flow indicates that those things were factual, and some of the facts adjudicated in those cases are visible today.
So, what about the Bible record? Is it true, or is it fiction? Well, we have several things to consider to determine if the Bible is true.
There is the nation of Israel. Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D. For the following almost 1800 years, the descendants of Israel remained a solid group, even though they didn't have a nation. Then around 1948 or 1949, they became a nation again. Since they were so strong within their group, that they could become a nation again, their national solidity is something that is firmly ingrained. What other nation has done this, or has it been done for?
This point is that there is an almost magical, and truly powerful, something to do with the nation of Israel.
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Dead Sea Scrolls. Most of the Dead Sea Scrolls were written before Christ... before the year zero. They had no printing presses, computers, memory tapes, etc., back then, up until just before the time of Martin Luther. Everything had to be copied by hand. But even after the printing press, much of the Bible was still copied by hand.
Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls go back to 400 B.C. This makes them to have been written some 1900 years before they were printed with the first printing press. Up until the printing press (and after, actually) these hand copies show that they were done so meticulously that 400 B.C. to the present are almost exactly the same... barring minor changes in the style of the Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek lettering.
This point is that we have proof that over 1900 years the Bible didn't change. When you add to this point the previous point of the solidity of Israel, there is no reason to doubt that the books of the Bible exist almost exactly as they were at the time each of them was written. So, we have reliable witness records in the Bible.
Next is the reason why there is such strength and solidity in the ancient copies of the Bible writing. The answer is in the Bible record of Moses. Besides the fact that God gave Israel the power to maintain the Bible, there was power in Moses. Moses did miracles. Moses talked to God face to face. The record of it is in the Bible. If it were lies, it would not have been recorded by the people of Israel, because without Moses, the Bible wouldn't have been written.
This point is that Moses was a powerful guy... so powerful that the people of Israel obeyed him, and what is written in the Bible is truth. But the Moses power doesn't stop here.
Moses was a prince of Egypt. He had access to the records that were housed in the archives of Egypt over 3500 years ago... records long gone, today. He had the clear records of the people from the time of the beginning. God showed him which of these to include in the writings which are the first 5 books of our current Bible.
This point is that Moses placed the basic history of the earth into the books of the Bible that he wrote. The previous points show why it is the truth.
Look at all the ancient copies and fragments of copies of the Bible that exist... thousands. Then compare this with the number of ancient copies of Aristotle's or Socrates' or Plato's writings, etc. If there wasn't power in the Bible, there would be far fewer ancient copies... more in the range of the few number of copies of other ancient religions.
This point shows that there is power in the Bible. And you can see it further when you come to realize that the laws of the USA are built on the format of freedom, especially of religion, that abounded in the States when the nation was set up. The "structure" of the formation of The United States of America was based on the Bible, and essentially screams Christianity even though it doesn't always say it literally. Go look at the Christian monuments around Washington D.C.
I could go farther, but this is enough. If you are serious about the strength of the Bible and Christianity, look deeply into these things.
God is real, and He is testifying about Himself in the Bible.
BTW, the Septuagint and Josephus both claim that the earth is about 7500 years old, since God created it.
If the court records from 1800 to 1810 are true, so is the Bible.