If these guys were around back then, I would say eating nuts is exactly what they were designed for hehehehe.
As far as the Jericho thing goes, that has been the general consensus for at least the past 10 years. They think they even have the source of Noah's flood (which was stolen from Gilgamesh the King anyway...which is the oldest know written document that far predates anything from the Israelites) At the bottom of the Black sea, they found the shoreline of an ancient freshwater lake, as well as signs of postholes from settlements around this shore. They can trace the ancient riverbeds that flowed into this lake (that now flow into the black sea as well as find a layer of freshwater mussels that stop where the shore ends and that is where layers of saltwater mussels begin. The Bosporus also has two opposite flows. The top layer flows in one direction and the bottom layer flows the other way. People in the region have been using that as a propulsion system for years. They drop a weight into to bottom layer to go one direction and then raise it up for the return trip. I forget which one flows which way offhand, but I thought that was interesting. Anyhow...where the Bosporus is now was once an earthen damn that kept the waters of the Med out of this valley. One day the damn burst, rapidly filling this valley and, to the people of this valley, caused the "world to flood". Linguistically you can see on either side of the Urals, two languages that are of the same root, but are very very different, which was caused by some groups going to one side of the Urals and others to the other side as they were fleeing the rapidly rising waters. Another theory is a flood that formed the The Gulf of Oman. The area to the rectangular area to the west of the mouth of the gulf (it borders Iraq and Kuwait on the NW) was dry land and via satellite imagery, you can see the "remains" of ancient river beds...they think a big flood occurred on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that flooded this valley...someone could have been washed out into this and ended on some dry land nearer to the shore when the waters receded. I lean more towards the Black sea theory, but this does have some credence since Gilgamesh the King was from this region. -----Original Message----- From: Sisk, Kris [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 1:07 PM To: cf-community Subject: RE: Talking about the religious right... Actually the thing with Jericho depends upon which archeologist you listen to. Every twenty years or so a new one comes along and debunks the previous one so the consensus keeps flipping as to whether or not the events could have happened as described. I wouldn't lean on archeology for either side of that argument. And yeah, they lost me at the dinosaurs. And the whole 'everything was vegetarian in the Garden of Eden' thing....that's just preposterous. Seriously, how can anyone look at a raptor (just as an example since it's the most ludicrous one I can think of) and say "This is a creature meant to eat fruits and nuts." -----Original Message----- From: Eric Roberts [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 11:36 AM To: cf-community Subject: RE: Talking about the religious right... I was looking at the slide show and at least one statement is completely false. It says that "archaeology has repeatedly confirmed that the Bible's historical details are accurate..." I can think of at least one incidence of archaeology disproving this. Archaeology has shown that the events surrounding the incident at Jericho could not have happened since if you go along the timeline based on other confirmed events before and after Jericho, at the time it would have taken place, Jericho was in a rather large period on not being inhabited. I love the dinosaurs next to the little girl feeding a squirrel a carrot...yeah right...little girl would have been ripped to pieces. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328191 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
