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Adam, first man circa 4,000 bc....?
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 8:28 am
by _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
Re: Adam, first man circa 4,000 bc....?
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:17 am
by _Samantabhadra
Radiation and quantum mechanics, like global warming and evolution, is a liberal secularist conspiracy.
Re: Adam, first man circa 4,000 bc....?
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 12:25 pm
by _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...
Re: Adam, first man circa 4,000 bc....?
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 4:14 pm
by _Bret Ripley
LittleNipper wrote: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?
Re: Adam, first man circa 4,000 bc....?
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 5:26 pm
by _Themis
LittleNipper wrote:
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.
Re: Adam, first man circa 4,000 bc....?
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 5:27 pm
by _Themis
Samantabhadra wrote:Radiation and quantum mechanics, like global warming and evolution, is a liberal secularist conspiracy.
Damn liberals.
Re: Adam, first man circa 4,000 bc....?
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 8:46 pm
by _moksha
LittleNipper wrote: 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.
Re: Adam, first man circa 4,000 bc....?
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 8:57 pm
by _subgenius
Samantabhadra wrote: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.
Re: Adam, first man circa 4,000 bc....?
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 8:58 pm
by _subgenius
Themis wrote:Samantabhadra wrote:Radiation and quantum mechanics, like global warming and evolution, is a liberal secularist conspiracy.
Damn liberals.
redundant?
Re: Adam, first man circa 4,000 bc....?
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:02 pm
by _subgenius
Samantabhadra wrote: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
