why did the stone age last so long?

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You also list 4 words in Greek that translate to love as a sign of complexity.

But you forgot English has even more words with that same meaning but shades of difference:

Adore, care, enjoy, desire, cherish, fancy, passion, affection, warmth, intimacy, infatuation, endearment, and lots of others. So if Greek has 4 words for love, and English has dozens, which is more complex?

 

[SteveB28]

Degeneration of English:
http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/resource/degener.htm

Degeneration of languages in general:
http://www.0095.info/en/index_thesesen_95onesentencethesesagainste_thedegenerationofhumanlangua.html

"Nouns
Old English nouns had grammatical gender (masculine, feminine, neuter), singular and plural number, and were also classified as "strong" or "weak" according to the distinctness of their inflectional endings (some other classifications involve the stems that the nouns carried in Germanic and whether the noun was affected by front mutation). All of these classifications called for specific inflectional endings in each of the cases used in Old English: nominative, accusative, genitive, and dative"
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/fajardo/teaching/eng520/oldeng.htm

Your sources are rubbish.

As is the common trait of religious-based argument, a conclusion is preformed and then an attempt (in this case a very feeble one) is mounted in order to justify that conclusion. In your sources' case, the a priori conclusion centres on the fable of the Tower of Babel. The myth must be shown to be true, so we are presented with this gibberish about 'degraded language'.

It fails miserably.

 

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No answer for this yet?

You also list 4 words in Greek that translate to love as a sign of complexity.

But you forgot English has even more words with that same meaning but shades of difference:

Adore, care, enjoy, desire, cherish, fancy, passion, affection, warmth, intimacy, infatuation, endearment, and lots of others. So if Greek has 4 words for love, and English has dozens, which is more complex?

 

[joshua 1 9]

why did the stone age last so long?

why did the stone age last so long?

3,800,000 years from the start of the stone age to the start of the bronze age.

only 6000 years from the start of the bronze age to the start of the space age.

Fish hooks and fishing nets go back about 42,000 years. Items from shell and bone.

 

[joshua 1 9]

Tower of Babel.

The ruins are there in Babel from large towers or temples. Of course there is no way to verify that the story we read about those ziggurats are true.

 

[SkyWriting]

why did the stone age last so long?
3,800,000 years from the start of the stone age to the start of the bronze age.
only 6000 years from the start of the bronze age to the start of the space age.
Yuri Gagarin

I don't "know" much past last week. Most of history is fictional.

 

[dad]

The ruins are there in Babel from large towers or temples. Of course there is no way to verify that the story we read about those ziggurats are true.

I suspect that the tower of Babel remains are deep under the earth, as the continents separated after that, most likely. The ziggarats are probably some small similitude after the fact.

 

[joshua 1 9]

I suspect that the tower of Babel remains are deep under the earth, as the continents separated after that, most likely. The ziggarats are probably some small similitude after the fact.

One continent became continents back at the time of the dinosaurs, but that was before people as we know them now. I think Noah's flood was a shadow and a type of what took place back when the continent separated. After the flood at Pangaea the world was frozen for many millions of years. After the flood at Pangaea the water was frozen into glaciers for a long time until the Earth warmed up and the glaciers melted and the land began to emerge from under the water.

 

[dad]

One continent became continents back at the time of the dinosaurs, but that was before people as we know them now.

No. It was certainly not. Just because people in that former nature could not leave fossils does not mean they were not here.

I think Noah's flood was a shadow and a type of what took place back when the continent separated. After the flood at Pangaea the world was frozen for many millions of years.

False. We know when Noah lived and He was a contemporary with Abraham even according to Jewish tradition. That was not millions of years ago.

After the flood at Pangaea the water was frozen into glaciers for a long time until the Earth warmed up and the glaciers melted and the land began to emerge from under the water.

False. Not all the world was frozen. Just some of it.

 

[joshua 1 9]

No. It was certainly not. Just because people in that former nature could not leave fossils does not mean they were not here.

I am just going by what science says, there were mammals around during the time of the dinosaurs but they had not developed to the point they have now. "It was only after the dinosaurs went kaput that mammals were able to evolve beyond their tiny, mouse like forms into the widely specialized species that populate the world today." http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/otherprehistoriclife/a/earlymammals.htm

 

[dad]

I am just going by what science says, there were mammals around during the time of the dinosaurs but they had not developed to the point they have now. "It was only after the dinosaurs went kaput that mammals were able to evolve beyond their tiny, mouse like forms into the widely specialized species that populate the world today." http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/otherprehistoriclife/a/earlymammals.htm

That is false. They go by the fossil record and assume that one thing evolved from another in that record. Since most animals and man were not even in that record pre flood and likely even after for a century or two, the whole model of science crumbles and is left as only a belief.

 

[naveed]

Pangaea

 

[bhsmte]

It was the Flintstones.