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===== 1. Pre-Adamites: - Developed over long periods of time. - Capable of basic language, tool use, culture, and social behavior. - Did not possess true self-awareness, moral agency, or immortal soul consciousness. - Operated more like highly evolved animals — spiritually ranked, but not yet capable of communion with God. =====
# Adam and Eve: - Specially created or spiritually elevated at a specific moment in sacred time. - Possessed the "Image and Likeness of God" — that is, the capacity for love, free will, moral reasoning, and spiritual relationship. - Initiated true human history as known in theological tradition.

===== Modern paleoanthropology recognizes that anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) existed before behaviorally modern humans. Key transition markers include: =====
* Symbolic art (~70k–100k years ago)
* Burial of the dead (ritual practice)
* Complex language and abstract reasoning
* Cognitive revolution (~50k years ago)

This aligns well with the Lorberian idea that full humanity (in the Biblical/spiritual sense) began after biological emergence — pointing to a dual origin: biological and spiritual.

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===== Lorber’s view avoids both: =====
* Over-literalist fundamentalism (ignoring evidence of prehistoric humans),
* Reductionist materialism (denying spiritual uniqueness).

Instead, it asserts a spiritual threshold event — a moment in cosmic and biological evolution when God imbued two beings with full divine likeness, inaugurating true humanity.