6,000 Years?
- By Platte
- Creation & Theistic Evolution
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Why are they not written records?I am not "playing games", this matters to me, and it is something that I research a lot. Yes Sumer is still thought of as the oldest "civilization" by many people, but that's frankly based on old ideas and old data. Whether you want to believe the people around were a "civilization" pre-Sumer or not is not so important, the fact is that there were people, people like us, building things and leaving evidence way older than 6,000 years ago.
It matters to me that we had a civilization pre-Sumer, but for the discussion it probably isn't super relevant, what matters is that we have solid archaeological evidence, all over the world, of people doing the things people do - art, building things out of wood and stone, making fires, hunting, etc.
The whole idea of what makes a "civilization" is a hot debate topic in those circles, right now.
No, because I don't believe creation was 6,000 years ago and I don't believe civilization happened just 6,000 years ago. Sumer didn't just start doing it all and run with it. The development of the wheel, domestication of plants and animals had been happening for much longer, we have records of that. They are not written records, but we can see the progression of the technology through other archaeological evidence.
Again, according to History…the world’s first civilization was ~6000 years ago and recorded History began approximately 6000 years ago. Using the genealogies from the Bible creation was ~6000 years ago. I’m not asking whether you believe anything…but how can you not stop and think wow what a coincidence.
How about this: the world’s first civilization (according to History) was in the same region as Eden (Mesopotamia) and the creation setting of mankind. Another coincidence? Those are head scratching facts.
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