This is a logical fallacy of false comparison. The beliefs that prehistoric humans had was primitive. It was the first signs of belief with simple practices like placing an item in the grave when buried. Thats compared to the complex religion of cultures like at Gobekli Tepe where they had got to the point of creating temples and spirits and a whole range of practices.
Aboriginal peoples had sophisticated beliefs of the Dreamtime which was way more than simple placement to a tool in a grave. Aboriginals don't make monuments they use nature, rocks, billabongs and landmarks as their temples. The point is they advanced their beliefs from the simple practices to include these things.
And what is the point you are trying to make?
Irrespective of how far Aboriginal peoples "advanced their beliefs" before we largely destroyed their cultures by trying to convert them into good Christians following a Western culture, we had a first hand view of hunter gatherer Palaeolithic/Mesolithic type cultures representative of what you would describe as being primitive.
Yet by your own admission for the reasons given their beliefs were sophisticated which highlights the folly of defining their ‘level of religion’ as being lower as they did not construct temples.
I am not saying the glacial flood is the Biblical flood. I am proposing possible floods that may account for the Flood legends of different cultures. If the glacial flood happened around 12,000 years ago then this may be the one cultures refer to as it had to be a big flood that would at least cover much of the areas they lived in. Such as around the northern hemisphere coming down into the Middle East, Asia and North America.
I did not suggest the glacial flood was Biblical nor any other flood that followed.
Are you not alluding to the idea these post floods were catastrophic events wiping out civilizations in the process which incidentally is not supported by evidence.
Göbekli Tepe is only a tempe. So we don't know where they lived as yet. But other cultures have been found like in South American where vast cities have been discovered going back 8 to 20,000 years.
This is factually wrong.
Göbekli Tepe was a centre for ritual and communal activities when hunter gathering existed. Archaeologists have not found evidence of residential structures or permanent settlement at the site for the obvious reason hunter gatherers, did not live in permanently built structures.
There were no vast cities in South America dating 8-20,000 years ago, one of the oldest known complexes in South America, is Caral in Peru, dates back to around 4,500 years ago.
But I am not talking about large cities or civilizations. I am saying that the level of knowledge and religion was more advanced that archeologists thought and at a similar level and if not more advanced when you consider the monoliths and structures they built which are on par with Egypt which came much later.
Despite the fact in your previous paragraph, you were referring to non-existent vast cities in South America older than those in Mesopotamia.
Here is something else to consider, in the first three centuries of Christianity’s existence no churches were built in the Roman empire, Christians assembled in private homes appropriately named ‘Home Churches’ as the religion at various times was declared illegal in the empire.
It was only after Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire that churches as public buildings came into existence.
By your logic the ‘level of religion’ of Christianity increased as a result despite the fact from a theological perspective the basic principles of Christianity remained unchanged.
These are not the work on some Hunter gatherers but much more organised. More cities are being dicovered under the sea which makes sense because if there was a big flood then there should be evidence along coast lines of ancient cities now submerged.
Remote sensing, including lidar, reveals that the Amazon was once home to millions of people. The emerging picture of how they lived challenges ideas of human cultural evolution
www.newscientist.com
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Researchers have discovered a submerged, 10,000-year-old massive stone wall that is one of the oldest man-made megastructures ever found.
thedebrief.org
This is straight out quote mining which does not support any of your statements.
The first link requires a subscription but referring to other references the oldest sites are 2500 years old, far younger than your supposed 8-20,000 year old vast cities.
The second link is of a submerged monolith which is not a city while the third is of a stonewall, likewise not a city, with the added information it was “likely built by hunter gatherer groups”
That can't be right as the they found many animal bones around the site. In fact 1,000s. So they were already working with animals. We don't know what happened to them like the other cites. But to have such organisation would suggest they also organised their communities.
Once again more quote mining, like the wiki link it contradicts your argument as it states explicitly the hunter gatherer culture at Gobeki Tepe was abandoned to be replaced by settlements along with the introduction of crops and domesticated animals.
An important point needs to be made here civilizations imply the existence of agriculture and animal domestication but the converse is not true. Civilization came after the introduction of agriculture and domestication as evidenced by the Neolithic age where the agricultural communities of the time were not considered cradles of civilization.
