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#930603
Are you aware that "ALL CULTURES BEGAN SUDDENLY" and were fully developed?
No.
No, I wasn't aware of that. Chiefly, I think, because it's complete rubbish.
Oh wait, you've typed it ALL IN CAPITALS. That's different, I guess I have to admit I was wrong then.
3/28/2009 11:00:05 PM
#930618
CrazyHappyNinja
At a guess, I'd say basic mud and straw huts don't tend to last as long as massive stone structures.
Also, the idea that people will just build on old sites when the building is no longer useful is crazy talk.
3/28/2009 11:35:21 PM
#930620
Nowonmai
After countless millenia of humans being hunters/gatherers, they did stop and build rude villages that grew into cities over more countless millenia.
As for advances, just look at human history for the past 2000 yrs or so. People went from thinking illnesses were caused by 'demons', and know now they are caused by virii and bacteria.
3/28/2009 11:41:41 PM
#930621
Thinking Allowed
This Rock Art associated with Nez Perce and pre-Nez Perce tribes consists of hundreds of images in dense clusters dating from 4500 years ago. The tribes that carved these were nomadic. Sorry, no colossal statues, or enormous temples and pyramids or anything else associated with any ancient cities. But they did have culture. Sorry Chris, but you fail.
3/28/2009 11:46:36 PM
#930632
Tolpuddle Martyr
So the Mayans walked from Mount Ararat to Mexico before they decided to build pyramids. That's quite a hike just to find some good real estate.
3/29/2009 12:11:05 AM
#930665
Seek help...or up the meds..
3/29/2009 2:13:28 AM
#930676
LDM
Earth: just one giant Sim City game.
3/29/2009 2:43:09 AM
#930705
EvoPagan
So let me get this straight. Eight people hopped right off the ark and started immediately building huge full-fledged civilizations. What did they build them with? Psychogod had just destroyed the whole earth, remember? And what did these eight people and those few pairs of animals eat?
Didn't think this one through, didja?
3/29/2009 4:41:14 AM
#930707
Brendanjd
"A ready-made writing, already perfected"
And yet the Inca, with their great pyramids and mountain cities, had not writing system at all. they only possessed a system of coloured ropes that we are still unable to translate.
3/29/2009 4:46:11 AM
#930729
????
You've been playing too much Civilization, haven't you?
3/29/2009 5:13:16 AM
#930738
484
A decimal system at the very start.
Rome
3/29/2009 5:29:20 AM
#930755
This is freaking pathetic. Read something other than the Bible sometime.
3/29/2009 5:55:05 AM
#930769
Ozzie
"A ready-made writing, already perfected?"
What does that mean? If you mean a language, which one of the 1000's do you mean?
Please don't say English :)
3/29/2009 6:48:53 AM
#930806
John
Egypt had many "advanced" things long before 2348 BC when Noah's Flood is said to have occurred according to Bishop Ussher. So did China.
And what about all the stone age tools that have been found all over the world?
3/29/2009 7:34:35 AM
#930820
Eden
Well,the cave paintings that you can find in europe (for example france) don´t point to a highly developed civilization, same goes for the multitude of other archaelogical findings from this time in history ;)
Also egyptian chronicles neither mention a global flood nor some jewish slaves causing plagues on egypt because pharaoh wont set them free (and we also have no indication about a whole army of chariots getting annihilated because they dared to pursue said slaves).
And we also know about the predynastic periods of egypt, more than 5000 years ago, when there weren´t large stone buildings yet, but just small farming communities who knew about animal husbandry and pottery ;)
3/29/2009 7:56:06 AM
#930823
JonnyTruant
mkb totally wins an internet.
3/29/2009 8:03:52 AM
#930837
Vorlon
@mkb
Or some of the colonials decided "y'know what? Farming sucks, let's just build cities and coffee shops again"
3/29/2009 8:19:59 AM
#930846
the old firm
@mkb: Don't forget the mitochondrial Eva...^^
@Chris Parker: You started of wrong and wen downhill from there.
3/29/2009 8:39:16 AM
#930859
Think I'll print this post out, shred it up, and spread it on my vegetable garden. Should get a bumper crop.
3/29/2009 8:49:01 AM
#930886
Jezebel's Evil Sister
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history ...
... are doomed to litter the Internet with bat-shit insanity.
3/29/2009 9:19:52 AM
#930893
ozznova
@????
Clearly the world is one big game of Civ. The last Civ to try to win a military victory was Germany about sixty or so turns ago, since then the American and Russian civilizations had been trying to use their vassal states, until the vassals gained more land and declared independence.
For a few turns we've been at war with the Arabian civilization, but since they have the world's largest deposits of oil it's been sort of hard to do anything against them.
3/29/2009 9:27:21 AM
#930914
Sisyphus
Seriously? FUCKING SERIOUSLY?!?!?
As a student of Egyptology I am too incensed to respond to this right now! I'm LIVID!
3/29/2009 9:47:26 AM
#930975
random6x7
Why, why does everyone with a batshit insane theory use my field to justify it? "Soft science" doesn't mean "oh, yes, please, we'll take any crap and like it!"
I can't even tell you how stupid this is, as well as how bigoted. The only way you could even think up a theory like this is by completely ignoring whole continents of people who lacked writing systems, formalized civil services, and large public works. Never mind that my class learned about ancient Egyptians' failed early pyramids in the freakin' fourth grade!
3/29/2009 11:40:55 AM
#930992
Zits
Vegetation also tends to cover cities when abandoned for any length of time. Mayan stone cities are being found hiding in 'virgin' forest. Less sturdy evidence of man such as wood or mud is easy pickings for determined vines.
3/29/2009 12:14:09 PM
#931001
Old Viking
Yes, we know, Chris. Please go away./
3/29/2009 12:35:11 PM
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