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We know Japheth was the progenitor of the Europeans, while Shem was the progenitor of the Native Americans
By whom?That's just 100% made up.
Are you trying to imagine the story?Imagination?
Yet somehow you've figured out how old the Earth is from it .. C'mon now .. we're on the trail of something big here .. I'm gonna have ta press that scholarly mind of yours for a little more thinking on this .. (please?)That would be difficult to ascertain, since the Bible doesn't give a yearly census.
Well that's a little worrisome because 'Europe' wasn't as clearly distinguished before 3500BC as it is now. The land bridge came and went over the period of the Ice Age. The bridge firstly allowed these hunter-gatherer stone-agers to get to the land mass later called 'Britain', over the Ice, and then when the Ice melted, the English Channel formed and virtually isolated them from the rest of the European (continent).AV1611VET said:We know Japheth was the progenitor of the Europeans, while Shem was the progenitor of the Native Americans; and since both Japheth and Shem knew "the concept of Heaven," their children would also.
Negative.Yet somehow you've figured out how old the Earth is from it ..
Earth at the time was one giant landmass (Pangaea) with one giant ocean (Panthalassa).Well that's a little worrisome because 'Europe' wasn't as clearly distinguished before 3500BC as it is now. The land bridge came and went over the period of the Ice Age.
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The Native Americans came waayyy after all this time though, so this 'Japheth' is our more likely suspect .. So we need an approximate date for him!
Your map is flawed. It shows continents. Something that didn't exist at the time.See here for the picture of where the geological evidence leads us as to what was going on,
Ok ..Negative.
I say the earth is as old as God willed it to be, but that it has only been in existence since 4004 BC.
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The Bible does not talk like that about anyone else.
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There's a difference between "all the days that Adam lived" and "all the days of [insert name here] were ..."
Japheth was one of Noah's sons who helped build the Ark.Ok ..
Then when did this 'Japheth' dude appear on the scene (regardless of how old he was)?
Wrong timeframe though .. The topic is about the Stonehenge era and I've stretched it a bit backwards to 3500BC. The Ice Age coverings and the eventual formation of the English Channel are important because that's how hominids (back to Neanderthals) got into the British landmass from the Eurpopean landmass (ie: they walked).. and then became isolated there.Earth at the time was one giant landmass (Pangaea) with one giant ocean (Panthalassa).
People could walk from ... say ... New Jersey to Australia and back without ever seeing water.
Ok .. thanks.Japheth was one of Noah's sons who helped build the Ark.
Shem, Ham, and Japheth
Am I wasting my time in this thread?Please note: I'm not attacking religious beliefs here (please refrain from making it seem that way).
Rather, what I'm doing is tracing the development of human thinking about religions .. people and God in Heaven .. which is the in-common area which links both religion and everything else humans ever conceived. Surely one cannot reasonably argue religious beliefs whilst not acknowledging that they are a human notion? (After all, scientists cannot argue their way out of science also being a very human notion).
Huh?... The Bible isn't a "book of notions," rather It is, in fact, the word of God.
And so, the Neolithic plot thickens!The mystery near and around Stonehenge keeps growing.
The latest revelation is the discovery of a ring of at least 20 prehistoric shafts about 2 miles from the famous Neolithic site of immense upright stones, according to an announcement from the University of Bradford.
Archaeologists say the "astonishing" shafts in Durrington Walls date back to 2500 B.C. and form a circle more than 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) in diameter. Each one measures up to 10 meters (33 feet) in diameter and 5 meters (16 feet) deep.
Researchers say there may have been more than 30 of the shafts at one time.
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discovery of such a massive prehistoric structure which, currently, is significantly larger than any comparative prehistoric monument that we know of in Britain
The site containing the burnt remnants of human cremations is the neolithic passage grave at Knowth in Ireland:Rather, what I'm doing is tracing the development of human thinking about religions .. people and God in Heaven .. which is the in-common area which links both religion and everything else humans ever conceived. Surely one cannot reasonably argue religious beliefs whilst not acknowledging that they are a human notion? (After all, scientists cannot argue their way out of science also being a very human notion).
Cremation evidence:The large mound has been estimated to date from c. 3200 BC.
Evidence of unique stone carved artwork:The eastern passage arrives at a cruciform chamber, not unlike that found at Newgrange, which contains three recesses and basin stones into which the cremated remains of the dead were placed.
Evidence of astronomical significance:The right-hand recess is larger and more elaborately decorated with megalithic art than the others
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Many of the motifs are typical: spirals, lozenges and serpentiform. However, the megalithic art at Knowth contains a wide variety of images, such as crescent shapes ..
.. and the oldest known illustration of the moon in history.
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