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Originally posted by SLAYER69
Before we begin allow me to state right up front.
I'm not attempting to debunk the whole "Ancient Alien" theory and in all honesty I'm just as open minded enough as the next person to believe in the existence of ET's and their possible visitations both past and/or presently. Having said that, I refuse to blindly give credit to each and every perceived anomalies in ancient construction to ET.
Many have and will unquestionably attribute the great accomplishment in man's history to Ancient Aliens. As I've stated elsewhere, I can argue both sides for either ET or lost Ancient knowledge. The problem I have is that often many on both sides gloss over certain facts. For example, We can visit the quarries where these massive blocks around the world come from. Easter Island for example, there are still unfinished statues at various stages to be finished never mind being cut free and transported etc we find ancient abandoned work all over the world many while still in progress or in this threads premise.
Originally posted by mbinsd
reply to post by ThreeNF
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The one thing that I always find myself wondering about when pondering if ancient man could have built some of these monuments, is the engineering. They were writing in pictographs and hieroglyphs back then. How did they have the math that would have been required to design and then build these massive structures and complexes? So far as I know, math was pretty primitive up until about 3,000 years ago.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by TC Mike
To be honest I'm not sure how literal one should take whats written in the bible in reference to certain historical events and stories. I wonder how much had been mistranslated, exaggerated and plain out recorded or remembered through countless retelling by word of mouth down through the generations before it was finally put to paper was wrong or off as far as dates, numbers and timelines etc etc etc?
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Originally posted by mbinsd
reply to post by Logarock
I agree that the interaction came to an end - I think maybe a few times. It does look like there was a thriving civilization about 12,000 years ago that disappeared. I don't just mean Atlantis - there is evidence in South America, Turkey and even the British Isles. Structures that can be dated back that far.
Originally posted by mbinsd
reply to post by Harte
Yes, Gobekli Tepe is dated to about 11,000 years ago I believe. They have found some stone structures in the British Isles - I think off Scotland - as well as some evidence of housing under the water in the English Channel that is about that old - as evidenced by the remains of a hearth. There is one in Peru that starts with a T but I can't remember the name, that is estimated to be 17,000 years old. Let's not forget Puma Punku. And there are the controversial structures under water off Okinawa.
I'm using civilization to denote a level of advancement and organization at the point where people are settled and building structures. Please don't scrutinize semantics. I think most people get the drift.
I have yet to see an ancient structure that cannot be explained in terms of the technology available at the time of its construction. Obviously, such a thing could exist. But it has yet to be found.
Originally posted by mbinsd
We have to accept that there are ancient structures that we can't explain that were beyond the known capacity of man at the time.
Originally posted by mbinsd
Certainly people were every bit as intelligent 12,000 years ago and earlier - but people advance in stages based on the discoveries that came before. So far as we know, humans weren't at that point that long ago. I believe that to build these things they needed outside help.