"Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown that human memories are malleable. During a 2009
episode of CBS' 60 Minutes program, Loftus explained to Leslie Stahl that human memories are, "susceptible to distortion, contamination, and other influences."
When and why did memories become malleable? Is it reasonable to attribute apparent imperfections—like memory being vulnerable to distortion or contamination—to God's creative acts? Not necessarily. The effects of sin's curse on the universe apparently reach into the mind of man. In other words, it's likely that memory's fallibility was not what God originally produced in his first man, Adam.
After all, the fact that, in just one afternoon Adam named many basic creature kinds, including birds, beasts, and creeping animals, implies excellent recall.5 Today, only a few of us can claim to have even traces of a similar eidetic (visual) memory.
So, the question remains: When "he shall return to the days of his youth," (Job 33:25) will the redeemed person enjoy a perfect memory more like Adam's?" ICR
When and why did memories become malleable? Is it reasonable to attribute apparent imperfections—like memory being vulnerable to distortion or contamination—to God's creative acts? Not necessarily. The effects of sin's curse on the universe apparently reach into the mind of man. In other words, it's likely that memory's fallibility was not what God originally produced in his first man, Adam.
After all, the fact that, in just one afternoon Adam named many basic creature kinds, including birds, beasts, and creeping animals, implies excellent recall.5 Today, only a few of us can claim to have even traces of a similar eidetic (visual) memory.
So, the question remains: When "he shall return to the days of his youth," (Job 33:25) will the redeemed person enjoy a perfect memory more like Adam's?" ICR
