The Flood (2)

[AV1611VET]

"By looking at the civilisations that were conspicuisly unperterbed by a global flood - Damascus, the Nile, the whole of Asia, all show continuous habitation despite an alleged global flood. That counts as rather strong evidence against any Global Flood."

Why do those sentences demonstrate a misunderstand of the Flood?

The timing -- for starters.

 

[Hespera]

great. another thread that is about the avet

 

[CaliforniaSun]

Just to be clear, you don't constitute "you guys".

You're not a one-man show.

Just to be clear, you seem to be writer, director, producer, actor, stunt double, and gaffer of your one man show, in your own little theater.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

The timing -- for starters.

Damascus has been continually inhabited for 10,000 years, yet you believe the Earth has only came into existence around 6,000 years ago. So, you must also believe the Flood occurred some time in the past 6,000 years, probably 4,000 years ago - so Damascus was founded before the Flood, and hasn't been uninhabited.

What part of the timing did I get wrong there?

 

[CaliforniaSun]

The timing -- for starters.

Yep, you've got the timing all wrong, and don't even understand why.

 

[AV1611VET]

Damascus has been continually inhabited for 10,000 years, yet you believe the Earth has only came into existence around 6,000 years ago. So, you must also believe the Flood occurred some time in the past 6,000 years, probably 4,000 years ago - so Damascus was founded before the Flood, and hasn't been uninhabited.

What part of the timing did I get wrong there?

Your mixing your beliefs in with mine.

I [obviously] don't believe Damascus has existed for 10,000 years -- you do.

 

[Delphiki]

I [obviously] don't believe Damascus has existed for 10,000 years -- you do.

Why is that? Do you have evidence indicating otherwise or are you simply not allowed to?

 

[AV1611VET]

Why is that? Do you have evidence indicating otherwise or are you simply not allowed to?

For two obvious reasons:

1. The earth has only gone around the sun some 6100 times.
2. Damascus would have been founded by Noah's progeny, not ancestors.

 

[Delphiki]

For two obvious reasons:

1. The earth has only gone around the sun some 6100 times.
2. Damascus would have been founded by Noah's progeny, not ancestors.

So, you're not allowed to, then.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Your mixing your beliefs in with mine.

I [obviously] don't believe Damascus has existed for 10,000 years -- you do.

Doubtless, but the evidence nonetheless confirms that it was. So, the evidence for Damacus' continuous inhabitation for 10,000 years constitutes evidence against a recent global flood - thus answering your original question.

We've looked, and we've found the evidence against the flood. Why should we look again?

 

[CaliforniaSun]

Reminds me of this:

Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World

Lord God, Creator of All, caught thousands of Sumerian farmers and mathematicians somewhat off guard.


Members of the earth's earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth.

According to recently excavated clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script, thousands of Sumerians—the first humans to establish systems of writing, agriculture, and government—were working on their sophisticated irrigation systems when the Father of All Creation reached down from the ether and blew the divine spirit of life into their thriving civilization.
"I do not understand," reads an ancient line of pictographs depicting the sun, the moon, water, and a Sumerian who appears to be scratching his head. "A booming voice is saying, 'Let there be light,' but there is already light. It is saying, 'Let the earth bring forth grass,' but I am already standing on grass."
"Everything is here already," the pictograph continues. "We do not need more stars."
Historians believe that, immediately following the biblical event, Sumerian witnesses returned to the city of Eridu, a bustling metropolis built 1,500 years before God called for the appearance of dry land, to discuss the new development. According to records, Sumerian farmers, priests, and civic administrators were not only befuddled, but also took issue with the face of God moving across the water, saying that He scared away those who were traveling to Mesopotamia to participate in their vast and intricate trade system.
Moreover, the Sumerians were taken aback by the creation of the same animals and herb-yielding seeds that they had been domesticating and cultivating for hundreds of generations.
"The Sumerian people must have found God's making of heaven and earth in the middle of their well-established society to be more of an annoyance than anything else," said Paul Helund, ancient history professor at Cornell University. "If what the pictographs indicate are true, His loud voice interrupted their ancient prayer rituals for an entire week."
According to the cuneiform tablets, Sumerians found God's most puzzling act to be the creation from dust of the first two human beings.
"These two people made in his image do not know how to communicate, lack skills in both mathematics and farming, and have the intellectual capacity of an infant," one Sumerian philosopher wrote. "They must be the creation of a complete idiot."

 

[AV1611VET]

So, you're not allowed to, then.

That is correct -- I'm not allowed to.

It's called [being] obedient to the faith.

Acts 6:7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

 

[AV1611VET]

Doubtless, but the evidence nonetheless confirms that it was. So, the evidence for Damacus' continuous inhabitation for 10,000 years constitutes evidence against a recent global flood - thus answering your original question.

We've looked, and we've found the evidence against the flood. Why should we look again?

Because you looked and found a planet -- then, 76 years later, you looked again and found more planets -- so you plutoed the planet you found.

Look at Damascus again in 76 years, then tell me what you think.

In the meantime...

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Because you looked and found a planet -- then, 76 years later, you looked again and found more planets -- so you plutoed the planet you found.

Look at Damascus again in 76 years, then tell me what you think.

What does the IAC's revised nomenclature have to do with anything? Quibble over whether Pluto is a planet or not, it's still there. Quibble over whether Damascus is a town or a city, it's still there - and it's been there for 10,000 years uninterrupted.

In the meantime...

In the meantime... what? You've presented nothing to support your case, presented nothing to diminish mine, you haven't done anything. So what, AV, are you going to do in the meantime?

 

[Cabal]

Because you looked and found a planet -- then, 76 years later, you looked again and found more planets -- so you plutoed the planet you found.

Look at Damascus again in 76 years, then tell me what you think.

In the meantime...

Aw bless, you still haven't learned the difference between classification and observation.

 

[CaliforniaSun]

Aw bless, you still haven't learned the difference between classification and observation.

Hovindians: Classify-----> selective observation. Static process.

Reality: Observe everything-----> classify----->better observation----->better classification. Dynamic process.

 

[AV1611VET]

What does the IAC's revised nomenclature have to do with anything? Quibble over whether Pluto is a planet or not, it's still there. Quibble over whether Damascus is a town or a city, it's still there - and it's been there for 10,000 years uninterrupted.

If we weren't so close to the Rapture, it would be just a matter of time before someone 'discovers' that Damascus isn't really that old -- in my opinion.

 

[CaliforniaSun]

If we weren't so close to the Rapture, it would be just a matter of time before someone 'discovers' that Damascus isn't really that old -- in my opinion.

4.5by isn't enough time? Sheeesh. :o

 

[MoonLancer]

If we weren't so close to the Rapture, it would be just a matter of time before someone 'discovers' that Damascus isn't really that old -- in my opinion.

regardless your still wrong. evidence trumps opinion.

 

[AV1611VET]

regardless your still wrong. evidence trumps opinion.

So the age of Damascus will never change?