Originally posted by Chemley
I seem to remember that archaeologists have dug up many bones from far further back than 300 years. Recorded history in some form seems to have gone back approximately 5000 years to the Sumerians.
Please re-read my opening post, you seem to have missed what I was actually asking...
reply to post by OldThinker
Hey OT! It didn't take you long to jump in on this 'un, though you too seemed to have missed the point! I'm not looking for an argument on whether events or people in the bible were real - I want to know why we haven't found any of their skeletal remains!
(By the way - just because a story features real historical characters doesn't mean the events portrayed therein actually occurred in the manner suggested by the storyteller. See Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004) for a prime example of this!)
reply to post by kyred
Interesting theory, but has there ever been a period in history where we have had a better understanding of illnesses and medicines than we do today? Not as far as I know, so I'm pretty sure that at any point in history we had a shorter life span than we do now. Plus the only place I've ever seen this "vapour canopy" mentioned is on sites using it to reinforce the bible's story. Is there actually any proof of the "vapour canopy" ever actually existing? I mean scientific not anecdotal...
reply to post by Astyanax
A very good explanation which makes a lot of sense, but I have to ask why no-one ever thought to fix that during the many, many, many, many translations of the story over the years? I suppose the church thought it might have helped sell the idea if it was more fanciful...actually that might explain a lot of the stuff in the bible


