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Humans 80,000 years older than previously thought?
- Thread starter Aaron LeClair
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Raevenskye
Seer of All Things Spooky
great post! I love to see the dating techniques refined, and theories reformed.
Aaron LeClair
Paranormal Maven
All we need is what the bible tells us. Earth is, what, around 3000 yrs old? I forgetz. Our grandpapeez road dinosaurs to work.
CapnG
Devil's Advocate
6000. And that would be "rode".
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Tommy Allison
Guest
In the last 2000 years we went from a very primitive culture, to what we have now. Yes, we're still a bit primitive, but look at all the cool shit we have.
With that said, if we are 80,000 years older, then that would mean that perhaps we should be digging deeper into our past to see how many times we've had the reset button pushed on us.
With that said, if we are 80,000 years older, then that would mean that perhaps we should be digging deeper into our past to see how many times we've had the reset button pushed on us.
ddd999
King of Mars
It happened before, I don't see the rason why it won't happen again. And to illustrate my point, check European art in a 700 years period:
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Tommy Allison
Guest
Yep. Seen it plenty. What I find interesting is how sculpture, and art exist only so long as people like what they see.
Lots of art has been decimated over the last 3000 years. Wars, an assholes have destroyed more art than can be imagined.
It's sad really. I've made a few bronzes of the work I've produced, and I'm hoping that they last a couple thousand years. Most likely they'll be shitcanned into a landfill like so many plastic action figures and collectibles.
Lots of art has been decimated over the last 3000 years. Wars, an assholes have destroyed more art than can be imagined.
It's sad really. I've made a few bronzes of the work I've produced, and I'm hoping that they last a couple thousand years. Most likely they'll be shitcanned into a landfill like so many plastic action figures and collectibles.
Aaron LeClair
Paranormal Maven
My bible is better than your dictionary. Infidel.
Lets get it exact as we know this to be the Truth. (am I supposed to capitalize "the" as well??)
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/ussher.html
"The date forever tied to Bishop Ussher appears in the first paragraph of the first page of The Annals. Ussher wrote: “In the beginning, God created heaven and earth, which beginning of time, according to this chronology, occurred at the beginning of the night which preceded the 23<SUP>rd</SUP> of October in the year 710 of the Julian period.” In the right margin of the page, Ussher computes the date in “Christian” time as 4004 B.C.<?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O /><O
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Gareth
Nothin' to see here
Excuse my stupidity, but what is so significant about that art? I assume its the fact that such a a complicated sculpture was made 700 yrs before that primitive rock art?
ddd999
King of Mars
Yep. It only took 1400 years (Renaissance) to reach that level of sophistication of skill (in art alone) again.
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Tommy Allison
Guest
Kind of like how the Egyptians did the Encaustic art that was nearly lifelike, and within a hundred years were back to hieroglyphic art.
Art is a funny thing in history, because it reaches great heights, and is destroyed. Kind of like architecture. You have these amazing buildings, and then you're back to mudhuts.
Unless you're in certain countries where it's always been mudhuts.
Human history is really amazing when you think about how many times in 80,000 that the reset button could have been pressed, and we'd always think that primitive man couldn't have been as advanced as we are.
Just because they had stone tablets, doesn't mean they couldn't have had cell phones, or flying cars. We have people who carve stone today, and yet we have cars, cellphones, televisions and all that crap.
CapnG
Devil's Advocate
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That depends. Modern historians agree that the Gregorian calander is off by eith 6 or 8 years (sadly no agreement as to which). So it's either 5998 or 5996 depending on who you ask.
Aaron LeClair
Paranormal Maven
digigeek
Pompetus of Love
Wars and assholes are symbiotic and synergistic.
Schuyler
Misanthrope
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Uh, No. That would be 6012 years and a couple of months.
Schuyler
Misanthrope
80,000 MORE years than previously thought--which takes us back approximately a quarter million years. Of course, finding a bunch of flint tools doesn't equate to 'civilization,' but it certainly pushes the envelope backwards significantly.
exo_doc
Foolish Earthling
This just goes to show you what fabulous advances in science and art happened after the Christians took over.
This period was known as the Dark Ages, was it not?
Mexicola
Skilled Investigator
The Dark Ages was an ugly result of unchecked religious power that skewed western knowledge and economic progress. Maps were redrawn so that Jerusalem was the "centre of the Earth" to fit Church doctrine. It kind of reminds me of what is happenning today with the Catholic Church vs Stem Cell research debate...
Anyway, the point I wanted to make is that I just listened to the Klaus Dona podcasts and really enjoyed them. I love this subject of human civilization being older than what is scientifically accepted.
Anyway, the point I wanted to make is that I just listened to the Klaus Dona podcasts and really enjoyed them. I love this subject of human civilization being older than what is scientifically accepted.