On 8 December 2014 at 18:38, Samiya Illias <[email protected]> wrote:
> What are your thoughts about the huge, earthquake-proof megalithic stone > structures around the world, the planned cities of the Indus civilisation, > the astronomical alignment and knowledge of precession with which the > pyramids of Egypt were built, the lack of a 'developmental era' in the > ruins of the ancient Egyptians, as if they built their civilisations using > technology already available to them, that the erosion on the Sphinx > indicates that it probably existed at the time of the Great Flood, and thus > predates the pyramids by thousands of years, and so on? To my mind, these > societies seem technologically quite advanced. I agree that the Antikythera > mechanism device is but a mechanical device from our current technological > perspective, but we have yet to discover far more about the civilisations > of the past, and there may be many more superior technologies of the past > patiently waiting to be discovered. > I think we can be fairly certain that ancient civilisations didn't have at least most of the technology we have discovered in the last 300 or so years, or there would be signs of it - to take a couple of extreme examples, I don't think there are any sites that might have been where neolithic nuclear bombs were exploded, nor is there evidence of extensive use of fossil fuels prior to the industrial revolution. It's possible that past societies had more advanced technology that we credit them for, but it isn't possible that they had technology as advanced as what we have now, because what we have now has made extensive changes to the planet, and there are no signs that similar changes occurred in the past while human beings existed. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
