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Old 06-25-2009, 06:10 PM
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Originally Posted by BlooMoose View Post
I never thought you made anything up, WW...I have not studied up enough on any of it. I don't think living in a cave makes a caveman, though. I figured there were other people on the earth along with Adam and Eve. I am not trying to oppose here. I find all the information presented very interesting. I will go to that link!
We tend to think of Neanderthal as a cave man, but the fact is that Neanderthal, and Cro-Magnon both had working societies. They didn't simply communicate with a series of grunts, but had a language and writing. Since Homo-Sapien did not come on the scene until 6,000 BC, any text priior to that would have come from Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal, or both.

I had been looking to see if there was a correlation between the end of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, and the Great Flood. According to the Bible (and those who interpret it), the Flood occured about 2345 BC. Archeology states that it happened 500 years earlier, which would make it 2845 BC. But, so far, the evidence suggests that Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon both died out when Homo-Sapien came along. It would stand to reason that we (Homo-Sapien) are a product of the two. And, the Flood would have insured that we, via Gilgamesh, survived while the rest would have perished in the flood. The dates do not match, but then again... I'm very certain that all the evidence is not in yet.

In the end, both MUST coincide. You can not have an earth created by GOD that has already existed. The constants of nuclear decay do not change. The rate at which daughter elements are formed do not change. So, calculating the age of something beyond carbon-dating is still quite accurate.

Obviously, GOD, being a perfect Being, is also not wrong. As originally written, the Inspired Word of GOD would have to have been accurate in it's original form, and in the understanding and terminalogy at the time. So, the wild-card here is Man. After how many times it has had to be translated, and copied, man has introduced errors, either by not being able to copy word for word, or by misunderstanding terms used in a previous language and text.

In the end (and many of us may not be around by then ), I believe science will not refute the Bible, but instead, it will uphold the Bible. But, errors introduced by man will stand corrected.
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