Adam, first man circa 4,000 bc....?

[_Drifting]

BEIJING (AP) – Pottery fragments found in a south China cave have been confirmed to be 20,000 years old, making them the oldest known pottery in the world, archaeologists say.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/st ... 55903708/1

[_Samantabhadra]

Radiation and quantum mechanics, like global warming and evolution, is a liberal secularist conspiracy.

[_LittleNipper]

They didn't date the pottery. If they have the date of the fragments wrong because of unknown variables, contamination , etc., they WILL come to the wrong conclusions.

Per the article, "The key was to ensure the samples we used to date were indeed from the same period of the pottery fragments."

That became possible when the team was able to determine the sediments in the cave were accumulated gradually without disruption that might have altered the time sequence, she said.

Scientists took samples, such as bones and charcoal, from above and below the ancient fragments in the dating process, Wu said.

PS> THEY DO NOT BELIEVE THE FLOOD HAPPENED AND SO THEY DO NOT SEE THAT AS POSSIBLE CONTAMINATION! The Bible is a package deal. One either believes all of it or will reject it all eventually. I have found as one begins to accept the Bible, one eventually comes to embrace it all --- though it might take some time...

[_Bret Ripley]

The Bible is a package deal. One either believes all of it or will reject it all eventually.

Umm, huh? Virtually everyone believes that Biblical writings contain at least some historical material. You propose that everyone will eventually come to believe that it is all historical?

[_Themis]

PS> THEY DO NOT BELIEVE THE FLOOD HAPPENED AND SO THEY DO NOT SEE THAT AS POSSIBLE CONTAMINATION!

You already posted that they determined that there was no major disruption. A global flood would have created major disruption. Since they don't see any, their lack of belief in the Bible is irrelevant.

The Bible is a package deal. One either believes all of it or will reject it all eventually. I have found as one begins to accept the Bible, one eventually comes to embrace it all --- though it might take some time...

I have found more people taking it less literally. It doesn't take much of an open mind to see there was no global flood and that humans have been around much longer then 6000 years.

[_Themis]

Radiation and quantum mechanics, like global warming and evolution, is a liberal secularist conspiracy.

Damn liberals.

[_moksha]

THEY DO NOT BELIEVE THE FLOOD HAPPENED AND SO THEY DO NOT SEE THAT AS POSSIBLE CONTAMINATION!

What fools! Floods happen all the time! Before the Tennessee Valley Authority stepped in they happened every spring. Chew on that you Chinese and you will still be hungry a HOUR later.

[_subgenius]

Radiation and quantum mechanics, like global warming and evolution, is a liberal secularist conspiracy.

not really, they just require and rely on much being taken on faith.

[_subgenius]

Radiation and quantum mechanics, like global warming and evolution, is a liberal secularist conspiracy.

Damn liberals.

redundant?

[_subgenius]

Radiation and quantum mechanics, like global warming and evolution, is a liberal secularist conspiracy.

actually, now that i think about it....this is obviously the workings of a an anti-christian communist regime in China