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reply to post by MaxSteiner
There would have been a flood in the middle east - there was a flood in the Aegean, there was certainly floods on many island places - water levels rising a small amount at various points in our history would have had a dramatic effect on early cultures - that these floods were amalgamated into one huge flood doesn't detract from the fact that the biblical flood is likely a cultural memory of a real event validated by several other cultural memories at different points.
bottleslingguy
reply to post by Hanslune
you can leave out everything Sitchin ever said and base your opinion simply on the fact these advanced civilizations popped up out of the desert in the blink of an eye. I just love how you guys want to make the context of what they were talking about mundane, especially when they and many ancient cultures come right out and say they had help from people from other worlds. And if that's not what they were talking about then what do the scholars say these days? Sitchin's version makes a lot of sense considering how it answers all the mysteries around the world simply and elegantly.
bottleslingguy
reply to post by Hanslune
you can leave out everything Sitchin ever said and base your opinion simply on the fact these advanced civilizations popped up out of the desert in the blink of an eye.
Late Paleolithic, from 40th millennium BC Aterian tool-making
Semi-permanent dwellings in Wadi Halfa
Tools made from animal bones, hematite, and other stones
Neolithic, from 11th millennium BC c. 10,500 BC: Wild grain harvesting along the Nile, grain-grinding culture creates world's earliest stone sickle blades[2] roughly at end of Pleistocene
c. 8000 BC: Migration of peoples to the Nile, developing a more centralized society and settled agricultural economy
c. 7500 BC: Importing animals from Asia to Sahara
c. 7000 BC: Agriculture—animal and cereal—in East Sahara
c. 7000 BC: in Nabta Playa deep year-round water wells dug, and large organized settlements designed in planned arrangements
c. 6000 BC: Rudimentary ships (rowed, single-sailed) depicted in Egyptian rock art
c. 5500 BC: Stone-roofed subterranean chambers and other subterranean complexes in Nabta Playa containing buried sacrificed cattle
c. 5000 BC: Alleged archaeoastronomical stone megalith in Nabta Playa.[citation needed]
c. 5000 BC: Badarian; furniture, tableware, models of rectangular houses, pots, dishes, cups, bowls, vases, figurines, combs
c. 4400 BC: finely-woven linen fragment
Inventing prevalent, from 4th millennium BC By 3400 BC: Cosmetics
Donkey domestication
(Meteoric) iron works
Mortar (masonry)
c. 4000 BC: early Naqadan trade (see Silk Road)
4th millennium BC: Gerzean tomb-building, including underground rooms and burial of furniture and amulets
4th millennium BC: Cedar imported from Lebanon
c. 3900 BC: An aridification event in the Sahara leads to human migration to the Nile Valley
c. 3500 BC: Lapis lazuli imported from Badakshan and / or Mesopotamia (see Silk Road)
c. 3300 BC: Double reed instruments and lyres
c. 3500 BC: Senet, world's oldest-board game
c. 3500 BC: Faience, world's earliest-known glazed ceramic beads
c. 3100 BC: Pharaoh Narmer unified Upper and Lower Egypt
I just love how you guys want to make the context of what they were talking about mundane,
especially when they and many ancient cultures come right out and say they had help from people from other worlds.
And if that's not what they were talking about then what do the scholars say these days?
Sitchin's version makes a lot of sense considering how it answers all the mysteries around the world simply and elegantly.
I would suppose that depends on how you define "blink of an eye". When you factor in that Gobekli Tepe is roughly 12,000 years old and Sumeria became an organized city state approximately 5000 years ago and was settled 1100-1600 years prior to the development of written script there I would be more than willing to go out in a limb and say that none of these civilizations appeared in the blink of an eye. Geologically sure but in terms of physical human years not so much.
peter vlar
bottleslingguy
reply to post by Hanslune
you can leave out everything Sitchin ever said and base your opinion simply on the fact these advanced civilizations popped up out of the desert in the blink of an eye. I just love how you guys want to make the context of what they were talking about mundane, especially when they and many ancient cultures come right out and say they had help from people from other worlds. And if that's not what they were talking about then what do the scholars say these days? Sitchin's version makes a lot of sense considering how it answers all the mysteries around the world simply and elegantly.
I would suppose that depends on how you define "blink of an eye". When you factor in that Gobekli Tepe is roughly 12,000 years old and Sumeria became an organized city state approximately 5000 years ago and was settled 1100-1600 years prior to the development of written script there I would be more than willing to go out in a limb and say that none of these civilizations appeared in the blink of an eye. Geologically sure but in terms of physical human years not so much.
randyvs
reply to post by Hanslune
hasn't happen AFAIK
Nor has it happened AFAIK. Doesn't mean you can say anything to the negative with confidence.
reply to post by Hanslune
You can say with great confidence based on the evidence presently known that no Biblical style world covering species killing flood occurred.
Excellent discussion all
Are we not willing to uncover more of this enigma
Hanslune
randyvs
reply to post by OmegaSynthesis
Oh but God doesn't exist. Therefore your presentation will be scoffed at
because people just can't take the truth.
I am thrilled by your post.
SnFedit on 5-10-2013 by randyvs because: (no reason given)
The existence of god cannot be proved or not proved but the claim of aliens modifying humans and living amongst can be as is the claim they modified humans to mine gold. We can also ,using a line by line approach, dismiss certain claims from the Bible as being scientifically invalid, such as a world wide flood as decribed in Genesis.
stormcell
Hanslune
randyvs
reply to post by OmegaSynthesis
Oh but God doesn't exist. Therefore your presentation will be scoffed at
because people just can't take the truth.
I am thrilled by your post.
SnFedit on 5-10-2013 by randyvs because: (no reason given)
The existence of god cannot be proved or not proved but the claim of aliens modifying humans and living amongst can be as is the claim they modified humans to mine gold. We can also ,using a line by line approach, dismiss certain claims from the Bible as being scientifically invalid, such as a world wide flood as decribed in Genesis.
At the end of the last ice age, sea levels were about 150 meters lower than they were now. At any time, there could have been a local flood caused by a collapsing sea wall. Some parts of the Middle East are actually below sea-level, so they could have flooded, before the water evaporated again.edit on 6-10-2013 by stormcell because: (no reason given)