h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Recently I have been reading alot of 17th and 18th century literature about government. The authors always seem to bring up God, as Christianity and one's stance on it was very important back then, as it is to many people now. When an author would speak of government and ruling, the subject of Adam, and his dominion over a new world always seems to come to light as the first example of a type of government.

While reading so much about Adam and this new world a thought came to mind, what sort of knowledge would God have put into Adam's mind when he created him. This is a philosophical question, not a debate about whether Adam or God exists, so for the sake of argument, presume that Adam was the first human, and that God created him out of dust to be the first human on earth.

Now since Adam would have been the first human, without any previous memory or experience, all knowledge would have to be a priori, given to him directly by God, without learning from experience. So what would have God put into Adam's mind?

What I wonder first off, was Adam given God's vast knowledge? What limit did God place on the knowledge he gave Adam if he did not give him all of what he knew?
Now it would seem almost obvious that God did not give Adam all of his knowledge, because the course of human history would have been different. We would've known long ago how to fly, how to harness clean energy and all the secrets of the universe. But, even with that knowledge, it takes a huge workforce to be able to produce something like a 747, and in the years that Adam was on the earth, it's doubtful that he would have bore enough offspring to build industry to produce modern machinery.
But wait, if he had infinite knowledge, he would have also had the foresight to record all that he knew for posterity so that they could later create modern machinery, or have knowledge of the universe. So why didn't he? If he had infinite knowledge, he would've known how to write. But would his children know how to read? He could teach them, but would they have the capacity to understand Adam's vast knowledge? Who today understands Quantum Physics? So was the knowledge there, but lost? Or was it never given to Adam in the first place?
Perhaps all of God's knowledge was not placed into Adam's mind, or he would've known not to eat the apple, and it would have been a moot point since he would've already had that knowledge anyway, so the apple would not have been a threat. So Adam's initial knowledge was at least limited in some respects. But what then would have God placed in Adam's mind to allow him to survive on a new planet inhabited by new creatures and new flora? Did God give Adam knowledge that he himself could not understand, being merely mortal? What would Adam need with the knowledge of how to create a universe without having the power to create one? Was knowledge that was not immediately needed for survival discarded by Adam and his progeny after the apple incident?

Besides the insights given by the Bible, which aren't many, what would have Adam's knowledge of human existance be? What would it be like to be the first human with no memories, to be spontaneously created. Would Adam have known he was the first? Would he have had a sense of superiority knowing he was created directly by God. Would Adam have known how powerful God is or what the meaning of omnipotence is? Did Adam know he was on a planet, that was created shortly before he was? Would the knowledge Adam had seem like memory, or would the answers to questions pop into his head as he had them. If it were memory, what kinds of memory would someone created as an adult have?

Adam and Eve were given dominion over earth and allowed to name animals, so I propose that they were given a language and the ability to communicate. But would the language be divine, or human? They were able to talk to God and Satan directly, but were God and Satan speaking to Adam in a newly devised human tongue, or in the divine language? Would they have known how to write, and if so, did people forget how to?

I wonder what other people think of this. I think it's an interesting question, perhaps trivial, but I'd be interested in reading others' opinions on it.

Drugs?

uh oh, I put this in the wrong forum, soory

Did you mean askh2g2?

Try <./>askh2g2</.> as Jodan suggests.