Also, on the issue of giants, there is quite a lot of evidence giants did exist. Perhaps you are just unaware of the evidence?
Evos call them more primitive hominids, but they have been found with tools fitted to their size so they seem to just be a giant form of "people" in layman's terms.
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Personally, I wasn't aware that being 3 to 4 feet tall qualified one as a giant, but then, what do I know?
If you have evidence of giants, you should probably come forward with it becuase, I am assuming that 99% of the worlds scientists are also unaware of this evidence. ou would probably get published and might win some type of award.
There's evidence that very tall races and tribes existed, but nothing you could actually call a giant. Just groups where the normal hight was, say, around 7 feet. It's likely that this may account for some of the Giants mentioned in the Bible; they would have seemed exceptionally tall to most other people at the time and people are prone to exageration, especially when it comes to story telling.
Also I saw on a documetary recently that the original scriptures state that Goliath was actually only 2 metres tall (about 6 feet 6 inches), Not 3 metres (about 9 feet 9 inches) as it says in some of the translations. So whilst he would have been tall for his time, he wasn't a giant in the traditional meaning of the word. I know Goliath isn't the only mention of Giants in the Bible but I thought it was interesting.
He's probably talking about Gigantopithecus (an ape, not a human), or - because he mentions tools - "Meganthropus" (Homo erectus paleojavanicus ), not as big as it was thought to be at first. (6'6" is still huge compared to other fossil hominids, but not really a giant compared to us.)
Not *all* fossil hominids were shorter than us, just the earlier discovered and better known ones. Homo heidelbergensis was over 6', bigger than we would be under equivalent nutrition.
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In any case, all those were extinct long before the Biblical period.
The giants in the Bible were all Philistines or Canaanites, derived from the "Sea People", a taller ethnic group than the Israelites. The gap between two groups can be enough for people to perceive "giants" - Ibn Fadlan said the Norse were "as tall as date palms", and the European explorers saw the Patagon as giants.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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