We often hear the word prehistoric used to describe dinosaurs or the woolly mammoths and other Ice Age creatures. It means that they existed before written history.
Could that be? What does the Bible tell us? God’s Word gives us a written record of earth history from the very beginning (Genesis 1:1). It describes how God created all things, including every kind of dinosaur and other creature, during the first six days of history, only 6,000 years ago.
What about cavemen? Surely they were prehistoric. Not really! Today we find evidence that some people lived in caves. But these were descendants of Noah. They lived in caves to protect themselves and their families from the weather and animals. They were very smart, like Noah!
The Bible says the first two people were Adam and Eve. They were created just 6,000 years ago with dinosaurs and all other land animals. All people are part of Adam's family.
Nothing is prehistoric!
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Presumably you believe your god existed prior to creating everything else. The portion of the god's existence that is before Genesis I is prehistoric.
At the very least you have to accept that, and therefore your final statement is wrong.
"They lived in caves to protect themselves and their families from the weather and animals. They were very smart, like Noah!"
Sounds like an 8 yr old writing a story for a 4 yr old.
"Nothing is prehistoric!"
Except everything that happened before written history, and the bable doesn't count. Maybe as a source for entertaining bronze age fairy tales, not history.
@Brianisha
Given these peoples' track record, I would say "Liberal homosexual lies to discredit God, and unravel society as we know it so that children with be molested, cats will marry dogs, and people will be jaywalking willy-nilly."
"Some bronze age Arab goat herders invented a myth of earth history from the very beginning (Genesis 1:1). It describes how some god they called "Elohim" magically created all things, including every kind of dinosaur and other creature, out of nothing during the first six days of history, only 6,000 years ago."
There. Fixed.
Sigh... Ok, I know some people think that Moses wrote Genesis, or it was dictated to him by God. Unfortunately, Moses forgot to put any sort of date on the papyrus to indicate when he received this important message. What did people think about the creation of the world before Moses? Who told Moses about the genealogy of the patriarchs and the story of Noah? If the people who lived before Noah had writing, why isn't there any surviving trace of it?
The oldest parts of the Bible weren't written down until 3500 years ago, so even if AiG were right, there would still be a good 2500 prehistoric years.
The Bible did not suddenly plop pre-bound into the Garden of Eden, and nothing can ever convince me that it did.
@#1137798: I ate this shit up until I hit puberty. I really believed every word of it. Then I developed the ability to analyze what I read, and that killed off my belief in YEC pretty fast.
@Ozzie
Sounds like an 8 yr old writing a story for a 4 yr old.
One day, at the scene of a fire, the cop found a perfect fireman axe. That was the day he became axe cop.
If Noah was able to build a physics defying ark, how come he couldn't teach his descendent wood work to build houses?
Gosh, isn't it amazing the amount of stupid stuff you feel compelled to write and do just because you've developed a faith in fundamentalist beliefs. Garbage in - garbage out. Of course, the vast majority of it is rubbish, it's a bit like young childrens' fiction but with adult themes of death and sexual repression and S+M and slavery and bondage and stuff and all sorts of mad fantasy. The major downside of this dangerous, mind-altering practice being that if you weren't insane to start with, then you soon will be. Definitely not to be practised in the vicinity of children or of adults who are particularly squeamish.
There's a lesson to be learnt here, namely, all things in moderation. Which, in all fairness, is how the majority of Christians take their religion, that is, moderately. It's just the fundamentalist junkies and pushers that are a problem for society.
Odd that those guys in Lascaux never signed any of their masterpieces then...it's almost as if they had no written language...
Pule Thames wrote
Definitely not to be practised in the vicinity of children
Children are exactly who these people are targeting. They have to get this garbage planted in kids' minds when they're young and trusting otherwise they know they have never have any chance of promoting it.
"What about cavemen? Surely they were prehistoric. Not really! Today we find evidence that some people lived in caves. But these were descendants of Noah. They lived in caves to protect themselves and their families from the weather and animals. They were very smart, like Noah!"
If they were so smart, why didn't they build themselves some houses? I mean, Noah supposedly built a gigantic fucking boat, practically by himself, and his grandkids couldn't manage a few houses, and had to resort to living in caves!?!
^^^
That said, having see how often Christians (particularly Catholics in my part of the world) knowingly lie to small kids to put the 'fear of God' into them I often think the same way myself.
I can practically feel the smug "there, take that stupid non-believers" attitude coming through on this one.
Can't help but wonder how the person who wrote this gets through day-to-day life.
Let's see... Genesis 1:1. Here it is: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
Wow, now THAT'S a written record if I ever saw one! God really spared no detail there!
It has been proposed very seriously to make proselytizing to children a crime.
After all, you're not allowed to show them porn, and boobies actually *exist*... if anything counts as Corrupting A Minor, shouldn't it be pushing superstitious nonsense?
Dinosaurs were not "Ice Age" creatures.
The Bible claims to give a written record from the very beginnings, but it does not. The proof of this is unrefutable.
You cannot prove that Noah even existed so you cannot claim anyone, anywhere, at any time is/was a descendant of Noah. And that flood story is just ridiculous.
The Bible says all sorts of things, but much of what the Bible says is utter crap.
The Bible wasn't written 6000 years ago. It was first told from person to person, like a gigantic whispering game* (and we all know how well they work, don't we?), then it was written in several languages, in several books. Some where later deemed to belong in the Bible, some where not. Texts where translated and translated, again with the whispering game.
Chapter and verse in the Bible where dinosaurs are mentioned, please. No, not the Leviathan or the Behemoth, those are other kinds of animals.
Noah was smart, was he? Took his family and fled, not trying to rescue others. That's commonly called cowardice nowadays, FYI.
* "Telephone" or "Chinese whispers", is the American/English name for the game, I think.
So "Noah's decendants" weren't smart enough to build simple huts less than 6000 years ago but Egyptians can build massive temples, palaces, tombs, etc around that same time? Oh that's right, AiG thinks Ancient Egypt was build by the Hebrews over a matter of decades.
The sad thing is this misinformation is aimed at children who are too young to critically examine AiG's claims.
This is EXACTLY why a badly written, mostly incoherent book written by primitives should not be taken as literal fact, no matter how much you think it was 'inspired' by magic pop in the sky.
Cave drawings by early man offer a more reliable account of history than the bible. So well done you are dumber than an ancient human ancestor.
Does not compute...
If Noah's descendant were obliged to live in caves to protect themselves from (weather and) animals, how were Noah and his family protected from the same animals when they were aboard the Ark? Ah - no doubt AiG will argue that the animals were under god's control when brought upon and living on the Ark.
It's a bit unfair of god to relinquish such control after the flood.
Or, more likely, the whole thing is a load of old bollocks.
"... God’s Word gives us a written record of earth history from the very beginning (Genesis 1:1). ..."
Yes, and God is so gracious and just peachy keen in general that he also gave us a second, conflicting "record of earth history from the very beginning" in the second chapter of Genesis.
The Bible doesn't say that the world is 6,000 years old. This figure came from a calculation by James Usher, and Irish Archbishop in the 17th century, which he figured out by backtracking the lifespans of different genealogies. People should at least know and acknowledge the source of their theology.
"The Bible says the first two people were Adam and Eve. They were created just 6,000 years ago with dinosaurs and all other land animals. All people are part of Adam's family.
Nothing is prehistoric!"
Neither are the ancient Chinese. Yet their records go as far back as 8,000 BCE. Apart from dragons in their legends/Taoist mythology etc, no mention of any dinosaurs in such.
Nor any mention of a supposedly civilisation-destroying cataclysmic worldwide 'Flood' before, or since. Certainly during , for that matter.
I love the smell of equally destroyed Christian mythology (one word: Unicorns) in the morning. Smells like... victory.
One word: Archaeology.
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'Know your enemy and know yourself, and you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles'
-Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
Psalm 90:4
Because a thousand years in your eyes is like a day that is finished when it is passed and like a watch of the night.
(So 6000 years of the bible, could actually be a LOT longer in real life)
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