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Originally posted by eriktheawful
reply to post by GrandHeretic
Thanks for posting the link!
Good read, but I believe that you misunderstood. The glacier itself didn't appear over night 5200 years ago. Given the altitude of the region the glacier has been there a long time before that, especially since the summit of one area is at 21,074 feet.
The areas that they found the plants you are talking about was at the edges of the glacial ice sheet, and believe that it indicates an abrupt climate change in the area around 5,200 years ago (along with another change around 2,200 years ago).
Keep in mind conditions in one part of the Earth may or may not affect other areas. This past winter was a great example of that. A large chunk of Europe was in a deep freeze with a lot of snow fall and people freezing to death, where as over here in large areas of the US and Canada we had a very mild and warm winter, with temps making it like spring here.
When you say "Advanced" for civilizations, be aware that the word can be rather grey in meaning. We would consider most civilizations on the face of the Earth right now as "advanced" if we compare it to how things were in the past, because we measure it with things like knowledge of the world itself, spread of settlements, structures we have built, and tools that we use, and yes, even weapons that we use.
One could call more ancient cultures "advanced" too, if we are comparing them to what they or others were before them. We could call the ancient Egyptians advanced if we compare them to neolithic cultures prior to them.
The reason metals was brought up is because of our use of metals. Everything from tools to weapons to jewelry. Metal can be heated and shaped into what we need a much lower temps than rock. You can make much more precise things with metal than you can rock. And most of these metals need to be mined.
You can sit there and say "maybe they didn't have a need or use for metals." but then that begs the question of: what did they use for tools then? Rocks only? If that's true, then no, they were not even as advanced as some of the most well known ancient cultures that we do know of.
Someone mentioned about things getting buried quickly. I live in the country out here. It's a daily battle with the plants trying to take back over what I have cleared. They climb up my house, invade my garden and if left unchecked, in just a few short years would consume the area. We see it all the time around here from old abandoned homes. And we live in a temperate area. Each time we have heavy rains, my driveway gets washed out and covers the paved road at the end of it. I have to go out and move all that dirt and sandy clay back up on to my drive way. If I stopped doing this, and if no one uses the road anymore, it would get completely buried under several feet of dirt.
We can leave our mark, but the Earth has many ways to take it back and keep it hidden.
Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by conspiracy88
Wow look everyone, we have a 10,000 year old human in our midst.
Wonderful. We have someone that needs to be walked through the story.
1. There is no geological evidence for a global flood.
2. The open discussion of the lack of evidence is 500 years odl. DaVinci discussed this.
3. There is not enough water on Earth to inundate the world.
4. There are continuous overlapping settlements going back 100,000 years or more showing no catastrophe covering all of the places people lived.
5. Where is there any evidence for an ancient advanced civilization?
6. Where is there ancient writing from an advanced civilization
7. Where are the parts, vehicles, factories or anything else from an advanced civilization?
8. Where are the wires, glass, ceramics, plastics, or any other ancient artifact?
9. Where are the mines from this ancient civilization?
The reason we find nothing at all is because it never existed.
Originally posted by rickymouse
reply to post by Shadow Herder
I believe there was some kind of flood long time ago, The writings come from all over the world. I'd believe all the writings before I believed "a lack of scientific evidence of the flood" as proof of it never happening. Aren't those writings evidence? I see lots of scientists stating there could have been some tragic event some time in history but to link all the locations to the same exact time would be nearly impossible. That doesn't mean it didn't happen though. Many of the writings note that a lot of the water came from within the earth. Springs gone wild, possibly of a massive worldwide seismic event that liquified the crust and allowed the water to gush out. Maybe a pile of huge aquifers collapsing. They saw something but may not have known exactly what caused it. Things were passed on verbally for many generations. Pictures and symbols reminded people of the events and warned them.
We've used most of our aquifers water and pumped the oil out. We won't have to worry about anything like that happening again
Originally posted by GrandHeretic
reply to post by karen61057
Yet for some reason we can't find bigfoot...capture UFO's in the trailer park....find a male human in the deep south who doesn't sport a mullet...
Some things we have yet to uncover I think is what Im driving at.
That is highly debatable
The discussion continues because there is obviously things to discuss
No, there is not but there is plenty to cover what would have been the large part of the CIVILIZED world at that time so in effect it would have seemed like the whole world to them.
Again, as described by ancient people who would have perceived a massive tragedy as happening to the world.
Everywhere you seem to look. I'll give you two words to start with, Puma Punku.
There is plenty of writing from almost every ancient culture on Earth describing people highly advanced and "God Like" and that would seem to denote highly technically andvanced.
Probably at the bottom of the Baltic Sea
Because stuff like that is known to last for 15 thousand years right?
Thats just silly.
Originally posted by eriktheawful
Originally posted by GrandHeretic
reply to post by karen61057
Yet for some reason we can't find bigfoot...capture UFO's in the trailer park....find a male human in the deep south who doesn't sport a mullet...
Some things we have yet to uncover I think is what Im driving at.
Look no further. I do not sport a mullet.
My hair style is more like Richie Cunningham, and yes, I'm in the deep south.
Originally posted by GrandHeretic
reply to post by karen61057
LOL Im my own boss, and I try it with myself often...
Next question? ... yes your with the pant suit and cankles..... LOL
Your arguing with me like I'm the one who started it, I just added a magic 8-ball statement to keep the ball rollling..i think its a pretty mute subject at this point dont you?
Honestly guys you shouldn't take me so seriously....i dont.......
Originally posted by GrandHeretic
Originally posted by conspiracy88
Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by Shadow Herder
If they were that advanced they could have dealt with the imaginary global flood of 10,000 year ago.
There was no global flood.
There was no preexisting advanced civilization with flying machines.
Wow look everyone, we have a 10,000 year old human in our midst.
Flattery will get you nowhere, besides, he doesnt seem to me to be a day over 8041.....
There may have very well been an advanced civilization, only not in the sense that we understand the word advanced. You can still do many things we do today without the technological twist to it. In that respect they may have been very advanced just more on a down to earth level.
I might add that even with todays advancement mankind still has a really hard time surviving mother nature. If there was a global event that took the form of weather or flood, it could easily shut us down. Just look what a huge snow storm does to a major city in winter.....everything is at a crawl...and from time to time people die.