i wonder what religious leaders think about this?? i guess ole' adam and eve's garden was around alot longer then they thought.

yeh this blows 7000 years since adam right out of the water.

id be more inclined to listen to creationists if they could accept dating methods and not literally try to guess teh age of the earth based on books written by men in the last 4000 years.

That is really interesting. I have a hard time thinking in terms of our ancestors 900,000 years ago.

Originally posted by okamitengu
yeh this blows 7000 years since adam right out of the water.

id be more inclined to listen to creationists if they could accept dating methods and not literally try to guess teh age of the earth based on books written by men in the last 4000 years.

It was Noahs' hand axe how the hell do you think he chopped down all those trees to make a boat, beaver teeth ?

Creation still stands satan put those axes there so I could come along and try to deceive the world ahha ha ha ha hah.

thats amazing thats OVER 9000!!

Originally posted by warrenb

More proof we are much older than we are usually led to believe.
This is fascinating stuff.

900,000!


The last sentence was also revealing...

These data provide minimum ages for the Spanish finds. “Older ages are possible but would be odd,” Gibert says.

Why would it be odd to have dates go beyond 900,000 years? Would it really shake things up?


[edit on 4-9-2009 by warrenb]

I'm not sure I follow here. They said in the article that they have found axes up to 1.7 million years old, how does 900,000 make us older than we're led to believe? In Europe, yes. As a whole? Not according to that...

There's some misleading assumptions here. The "us" isn't "homo sapiens." It's "homo erectus." They had fire and shaped stone tools and were our direct ancestral species. Scientists call them humans, just as they call Neanderthals and Australopithecenes and Hobbits all members of the human...er... race or whatever.

But that didn't mean it was goodole h.sap.

[edit on 4-9-2009 by Byrd]

While I have seen several articles similar to these in other contexts about other artifacts, one has to wonder about where the human race is now. Relatively speaking, we are infants on the planet Earth.

Dinosaurs lived through several hundred million years. Yet the Earth is still far older. If our species could attain say 2 million years on the planet to this point what changes in our culture, perspective, our forms would 10 million years do. How about 100 million years. Seems inconceivable and yet its already been done. In our species' arrogance we claim to be at the top of the heap and controlling/conquering much of the planet we inhabit. We can barely control ouselves, as a group. Think we have a better shot than the dinos? Maybe, maybe not. There is also evidence of technology that has risen and mysteriously faded throughout the ages. Then there are the OOPARTS.

This world is full of mysteries that will take more than several generations to fully account for. Often we will find and do find today wonders that are fantastic and gross. Such is life whether these mysteries are as yet previously undiscovered or rediscovered from a forgotten past.

Consider in the realms of technology. 2 million years ago a pile of humans have the hand axe. One lengthens in and its now a sword. There is war with other humans over water, food, labor, whatever. These humans who've attained these swords kill off the handaxe guys but the few guys that know how to make swords and handaxes also get killed. Bang the species is blasted back to grubbing for worms to eat and stay that way for generations maybe even thousands of years.

How often has that cycle repeated itself on our species? How often will it continue to happen? One of our greatest assets is our passion for what we do and think, yet it is also our greatest weakness. It can save us ultimately or destroy us utterly. The evidence is in the historical past. Where, when and how will our species evolve ( yes elvolve ) and rise beyond allowing passions to defeat our vision? Are we capable of such a leap?


IMHO, there is evidence that we are capable, yet too many of us allow our passion to dominate our destiny. The past does not have to keep repeating itself.



Oh crap, BAWOT sorry if I went off topic. The subject is of interest to me in its implications and the continual evidence that keeps on being revealed.



PG

But was it confirmed via carbon dating to be that old?

The article says " If confirmed, the new dates support..... "

So its not confirmed yet.