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What you failed to mention is that fossils buried by water have been occurring for hundreds of millions of years. There is no distinct hydraulically caused fossil graveyard 2 million years ago.I also mentioned the worldwide hydraulically caused fossil graveyards such as the one at Gibraltar. And there are others.
I showed you the data on this, and you simply ignored it.Scientists are not sure what caused the perturbations to the earths axis that produced each ice age, but one of them could very well have been caused by the large amount of water on the earth 2mya.
Again, there was no distinct ice age 2 million years ago. There have been distinct ice ages that have occurred in a regular pattern the last 1 to 2 million years due to the wobble of the earths axis. These occur in a fixed pattern due to the dynamics of the planetary movements.
Homo sapiens have only been around for 300,000 years. There were no homo sapiens 2 million years ago.Genesis does not say exactly when Noah lived other than maybe around 1000 years from the first humans and the fossil evidence points to the first humans having lived around 2 mya.
You are referring to Homo erectus, who have distinctly different bones from Homo sapiens. The skulls clearly have a different shape. The earliest Homo erectus have brain capacities significantly below the range of homo sapiens. The earliest homo erectus also appear to be more like the earlier homo habilis, which are even more apelike.
You tell me that you are a biologist. You must know that a global flood would totally destroy plant life on earth. Some plants would not survive, even as seeds. It would take many thousands of years or even millions of years for the earth to recover from being inundated with salt water for a year. Meanwhile the animals from the ark would try to survive on a destroyed earth with no source of food.Not if it was relatively tranquil. Ecosystems are very resilient, look how fast the ecosystems around Mt. St. Helens recovered from the volcanic eruption.
It didn't happen.
I gave you a link with the problems of a global flood. Have you looked at it?
The scribes had trouble copying anything. The available manuscripts are filled with variations, making it impossible to know for sure what the original said.There are no significant errors that change any Biblical teaching. Hebrew scholars know that the ancient scribes sometimes had trouble copying numbers, so there may be copying errors here.
Mark 16:8-20 is widely regarded to have been inserted long after the original book was written. It says that if Christians drink deadly poison it will not hurt them. If I was about to drink deadly poison, I would think it was important to know if it would hurt me. So yes, this is an important teaching that changes depending on whether we include these verses.
Finding references to people who believed in Yahu (which is close to Yahweh) is far from verifying Exodus. The evidence indicates that the early Jews were Canaanites who were already living in the mountains of canaan. Their settlements are virtually identical to other Canaanite settlements, other than the lack of pig bones. They worshipped the same God, El. They came to dominate the more prosperous coastal areas and eventually incorporated the name Yahweh for God.Even in the desert the conditions have to be exactly right for poop to survive 3500 years. There is some evidence. Read this:Does the Negev’s Ancient Rock-Art Help Turn the Bible Exodus Story into Fact? | Ancient Origins (ancient-origins.net)
This is a long cry from the story that Egypt was devastated by plagues including the death of every firstborn; that 2 million Jews escaped to the desert and lived there 40 years; and that they came into Canaan from outside in an enormous invasion. That simply did not happen.
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