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Subject: Sorting Out the Facts: Chronologies for the Earth's Age and True History of Mankind -- From: Xina
Subject: Re: Etruscans (or something) -- From: drc@antnov1.auckland.ac.nz
Subject: Re: Why Satan is released -- From: PAZUZU
Subject: Re: I need Medieval Construction DATA. -- From: david_key@vnet.ibm.com (Dave Key)
Subject: Re: Pompeiian Pineapples -- From: mcv@pi.net (Miguel Carrasquer Vidal)
Subject: Re: Bible Chronologies vs. Archaeological History, Part 1b -- From: Necron
Subject: Re: Scythians -- any site reports on research of pst ten years -- From: iha@euronet.nl (iha)
Subject: Re: Scythians -- any site reports on research of pst ten years -- From: iha@euronet.nl (iha)
Subject: Re: Archeological Cannabis Verification -- From: iha@euronet.nl (iha)
Subject: Re: Archeological Cannabis Verification -- From: iha@euronet.nl (iha)
Subject: Re: Bible Chronology vs. Archeology History, Intro (was: Part 1b) -- From: rg10003@cus.cam.ac.uk (R. Gaenssmantel)
Subject: MacRae & Myers: THE CHOICE IS YOUR'S! -- From: edconrad@prolog.net (Ed Conrad)
Subject: Re:Bible Chronology vs. Archeology History, Intro (was: Part 1b) -- From: Xina
Subject: Re: GPS location tagged data capture in Archaeology -- From: "Dan Ullén"
Subject: MacRae & Myers: THE CHOICE IS YOUR'S! -- From: edconrad@prolog.net (Ed Conrad)
Subject: Re: Roman Elevators???? -- From: Saida
Subject: Bible Chronology vs. Archeology History, Intro2 -- From: Eliyehowah
Subject: Horses (was: Etruscans) -- From: John Cowan
Subject: Re: Shang script among Olmecs -- From: yuku@io.org (Yuri Kuchinsky)
Subject: Re: Sorting Out the Facts: Chronologies for the Earth's Age and True History of Mankind -- From: whittet@shore.net (Steve Whittet)
Subject: Re: LUCY: ``Yes, we have no bananas!" -- From: fmurray@pobox,com (frank murray)
Subject: Re: Sorting Out the Facts: Chronologies for the Earth's Age and True History of Mankind -- From: hornowl@islandnet.com
Subject: Re: Shang script among Olmecs -- From: pmv100@psu.edu (Peter van Rossum)
Subject: Re: LUCY: ``Yes, we have no bananas!" -- From: Kathy McIntosh
Subject: Re: FOSSIL human skull, old as coals carbon-14 biblical Flood (Ramses vs. Moses) -- From: jack@purr.demon.co.uk (Jack Campin)
Subject: Re: Shang script among Olmecs -- From: pmv100@psu.edu (Peter van Rossum)
Subject: Re: Bible Chronology vs. Archeology History, Intro (was: Part 1b) -- From: Marc Line
Subject: Re: Bible Chronology vs. Archeology History, Intro (was: Part 1b) -- From: chiksika@tir.com (chiksika)
Subject: Bible Chron scale versus Earth Chron, Intro2 (reply to SORTING) -- From: Eliyehowah

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Subject: Sorting Out the Facts: Chronologies for the Earth's Age and True History of Mankind
From: Xina
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:44:41 -0600
In response to Elijah's earlier post entitled" "Bible Chronon vs.
Archaeology...etc etc) I will post what I believe the true chronology of
the earth's age.  There are many who dont agree with this.  This is
fine.  I have no emotional attachment to being right or wrong on this. 
If I am wrong, I will bow to the superior knowlege of anyone who can
adequately show through citation of archaeological or geological *FACT*
that I have erred.  At the end of this post I shall (*again!*) post my
sources.  
I have no concrete date that I can cite with certainty about the earth's
true age.  I will therefore post in chronological order the first life
to modern man and then in a later post we can go through whether or not
there are dates that correspond with the bible, or not.  All information
posted is the opinion and research of the author, no claims to its
spritiual or scientific absoluteness is implied outside of what is now
available to us through scientific research.
1)  bacteria - 3.8 billion years
2)  Blue Green Algae or Cyanobacteria - 2.9 billion years
3)  Eukaryotes( first plant and animal cells with nucleus) - 1.45
billion years
4)  Multicelled animals - 680 million years
5)  Fish  - 530 Million years
6)  Land Plants - 400 million years
7)  Amphibians - 370 million years
8)  Reptiles - 340 Million years
9)  Mammals - 200 Million years
10) Dinosaurs 200 million years
11) Birds - 175 Million Years
12) Austrolpithencus Africanus - 4.5 million years
13) Australopithecs rubustus - 4 million years
14) Homo Habilus - 3.5 million years
15) Homo Erectus - 2 million years
16) Homo Sapiens Neanderthalenesis - 200,000 years
17) Homo Sapiens Sapiens - 30,000 years  (See source #1)
This puts us right up to the Upper Paleolithic Age, which went from
30,000 BC to 10,000 BC.  From there we can go to our second source
(2)"Archeaology of the Land of the Bible 10,000 BC - 586 BC by Amihai
Mazar(Professor at the University of Tel-Aviv in Israel) 1992 Doubleday
Publishing)  We are now into the Neoltihtic age.
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A 	ca. 8500 - 7500 BCE
Pre Pottery Neolithic B 	ca. 7500 - 6000 BCE
Pottery Neolithic A		ca. 6000 - 5000 BCE
Pottery Neolithic B		ca. 5000 - 4300 BCE 
Chalcolithic			ca. 4300 - 3300 BCE
Early Bronze			ca. 3300 - 3050 BCE
Early Bronze II -III		ca. 3050 - 2300 BCE*
Early Bronze IV/Middle Bronze I ca. 2300 - 2000 BCE*
Middle Bronze IIA		ca. 2000 - 1800/1750 BCE
Middle Bronze IIB-C		ca. 1800/1750 - 1550 BCE
Late Bronze I			ca. 1500 - 1400 BCE
Late Bronze II A-B		ca. 1400 - 1200 BCE
Iron IA				ca. 1200 - 1150 BCE
Iron IB				ca. 1150 - 1000 BCE
Iron IIA			ca. 1000 -  925 BCE
Iron IIB			ca. 925 - 720 BCE
Iron IIC			ca. 720- 586 BCE
* Elijah's alleged date for the biblical flood.  
Essentially the Pyramids were built within the period around the Early
Bronze Age, if the flood occured there would be an interuption of this
age into the next one, in fact there would be noticable setback in
pottery and in building etc. 
I will post a pharonic chronology later this week.
My questions are:
If Adam was the 'first man' (or was he the first white man as some here
have proposed) then we can actually date him to over 10,000 years ago.  
If the biblical flood was an actuality, *why* was there no break in the
architecture, art and culture of any civilization in the areas of africa
and Europe at that time?
I will need to see how you explain away several billion years of
pre-history.
SOURCE LIST:
(1) 'Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life' by Beverly Halstead 1989 Running
Press
(2)"Archeaology of the Land of the Bible 10,000 BC - 586 BC by Amihai
Mazar(Professor at the University of Tel-Aviv in Israel) 1992 Doubleday
Publishing) 
Also cited in part one The World Atlas of Archeaology, by GK K Hall and
Co. (page 23)
Regards,
Xina
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Subject: Re: Etruscans (or something)
From: drc@antnov1.auckland.ac.nz
Date: 15 Nov 1996 03:09:44 GMT
Can we get a little respect for New Guinea here, please, Mr Whittet?
It is not a "small island". It is the second largest island in the world
(after Greenland). Approximately twice the size of California. 
On the languages, the best recent reference is W.A.Foley, The Papuan
Languages of New Guinea (Cambridge University Press, 1986). The
list of languages and families on the Ethnologue site (as well as the
maps in the excellent Language Atlas of the Pacific Region) reflect the
rather optimistic classifications proposed by S.A.Wurm and his colleagues
in the 1960s and 70s. Foley's book represents a fall-back to a more
conservative position, less exciting but more securely based on the
available data, in which we can recognize 60 or so clear families, and
a number of isolates. Foley is quite clear that further research will
probably group some of these into larger units. But by any criterion the
language diversity in New Guinea (and Melanesia generally) is the highest
in the world.
This thread seems to be moving off into a discussion of relative vocabulary
size, but before this happens can I get something clear? It appears that
Mr Whittet has somewhat modified his original claim, from
(A) Human language only began when people started living in cities.
to the less startling
(B) Vocabularies got larger when people started living in cities.
Am I right about this change of position?
Ross Clark
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Subject: Re: Why Satan is released
From: PAZUZU
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 00:27:22 -0800
Michael Guirguis wrote:
> 
> In article <56gdt1$t78@access1.digex.net>, dickeney@access1.digex.net
> (Dick Eney) wrote:
> 
> > In article <328BB0D4.3F7F@mech2.com>, elrick   wrote:
> > >Bradley Gouldson wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > SATAN IS A CROCK OF FOLK STORY.
> > >> If only that were true...
> > >> But of course it isn't. If you believe in God then satan
> > >> must exist. Simple
> > >> logic. For where else did all the evil in the world come
> > >> from? Do you then
> > >> believe the entire Bible is a folk story? If you do not
> > >> believe in God then
> > >> not believing that satan exists is I guess irrelevent...
> > >
> > >who in their right mind believes in god???( he cried incredulously)
> >
> > But it's so simple and logical.  God is omnipotent and omniscient, right?
> > Well, then he created this being of ultimate evil to mess us over without
> > putting any blame on _him_, God.  Now, who would do that except a creature
> > of ultimate evil?  Therefore, God IS Satan.  And thus it follows that if
> > you believe in God you are believing in Satan.  Quod erat demonstradum, as
> > Thomas Aquinas would say, although probably not after coming up with an
> > argument like that.
> >
> > -- Dick Eney
> 
> why would God want to hurt his own creation, he created the humans so why
> would he want to kill them.  besides if he wanted to kill us, he would
> have arleady did like with noah.
> 
A myth...,can kill? Strange how this xtians can think at all,
considering their heads are so full of bullshit. They is no
god/gods/godess, just fables of long ago.
> M.G.
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Subject: Re: I need Medieval Construction DATA.
From: david_key@vnet.ibm.com (Dave Key)
Date: 15 Nov 1996 08:47:38 GMT
In <01bbd259$1cf59740$9214838d@sunstorm.corp.cirrus.com>, "Steve Heeter"  writes:
>I'm looking for source data including...
>Wood Fortress construction
>Stone Fortress construction
>Wattle and Daub construction
>(i.e. Town Buildings)
>	Half Timber preparation
>	Wattle Materials
>	Daub Mixes
>	Foundation needs
>	Principles of Thatching(SP)
>
>I am involved in a business which is considering
>the construction of these and other Medieval era
>structures.  They will need to be as accurate as
>possible, including possible partial construction
>to demonstrate the methods used.
>
Steve,
Have you tried contacting English Heritage ?
They have a 'school' at Fort Brockenhurst (I think) near Portsmouth
in Hampshire which was specifically setup to teach conservators, 
custodians etc. of Historic buildings how to build/restore them using the
period techniques.
You could also try contacting York Minster  (or almost any Catherdral
eg. Salisbury) who will either have ... or know of ... skilled craftsmen
who would be able to help with many of your questions.
A bit general I know ... but I hope it helps
Cheers
Dave  
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Subject: Re: Pompeiian Pineapples
From: mcv@pi.net (Miguel Carrasquer Vidal)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 09:18:54 GMT
cboulis@mail1.sas.upenn.edu (Chrisso  Boulis) wrote:
>I think that the following story makes a wonderful aside to 
>the whole Pompeiian Pineapples thread.
>Last weekend I attended a Roman Banquet as part of a "Roman
>Lifestyles Symposium."  The tables were appropriately arranged,
>though, there wasn't room to "recline".  The first course -
>GUSTUM, was historically accurate - marinated fish, chicken,
>herbed pork, artichokes, olives, bread, other vegetables.  The
>Second course was fish, spinich, mushrooms and turnips.  The
>Third couse was honey omelets, seminola cakes, custard tarts,
>oranges, apples, banannas. . . .
>Bananas???  That's what everyone at the table asked almost in
>unison.  
Well yes, bananas.  It's not too strange: bananas originate in SE Asia.
Quoting from the Enc. Britt.: "Consumption of the banana is mentioned in
Early Greek, Latin, and Arab writings.  Alexander the Great saw bananas
on an expedition to India."
>We then devolved into giant sparrows carrying bananas
>all over the world, in addition to coconuts!  Or maybe they
>specialized in bananas and pineapples in the Roman periods and
>progressed to coconuts in the Middle Ages.
Giant sparrows would have been well advised to shun Rome like the plague
whenever there was an imperial banquet (I guess that means permanently).
==
Miguel Carrasquer Vidal                     ~ ~
Amsterdam                   _____________  ~ ~
mcv@pi.net                 |_____________|||
========================== Ce .sig n'est pas une .cig
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Subject: Re: Bible Chronologies vs. Archaeological History, Part 1b
From: Necron
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 00:52:41 -0600
Xina wrote:
> 
> Eliyehowah wrote:
> > Let's begin PART 1 with two timescales.
> > The altar of Xina for the world and
> > the altar Elijah for the true God Jehova (name meaning...what proves to be)> Let the fire fall from heaven. Let the truth descend.
> 
> I spent a good amount of time getting together my sources and doing the
> research and now with a wave of your hand you have dismissed what I have
> researched and claimed that my stance is an "altar".  It is not.  Either
> your facts measure up or not.
> 
> Your chronology is based on the erroneous and completely unproven notion
> that there was a biblical flood.  There was NO FLOOD, there is NO
> EVIDENCE.  I cited my sources.  No carbon-14, nothing to prove your
> methodology of dating your chronology, and now you have the audacity to
> ask me to verify several hundred years of how countless scientists have
> set up the process of dating the world and the historical events that
> have taken place on it.
> 
> Nothing I have *ever* posted in these newsgroups is ever personal.  You
> have all but accused me of being a soul-less scientist with no
> aknowlegement of Divinity or the Netjeru.  Nothing could be further from
> the truth.  I aknowlege God (Netjer) in a far different way than you
> do.  I do not think that science and the far more ancient history of the
> earth are necessarily incompatible.  What I *do* feel is incompatible
> are the dating techniques that you are using based on Judeo Christian
> time tables that have been edited so many times they do not even
> remotely resemble what was originally written.
> 
> You cannot set up a scientific model without concrete factors. Im sorry,
> I dont feel that God was out there with an enormous branch trying to
> cover up his tracks or traces of his flood.  If your facts are indeed
> facts then the scientific data will be there to verify those facts.  YOu
> have no controls, no supporting data, outside the bible and scholars who
> stand on that as being an actual model for the earth's history.
> 
> I am waiting for ONE SINGLE SOURCE outside of the edited document that
> you have to base your assumptions on.  Without this, our entire
> conversation is a waste of my time.  The burden now falls not upon me
> but upon you to produce the data. I dont want data that is not
> substantiated, I do not want tables that you drew up based on events
> that have no scientific proof to back them up. Give me the citations, I
> have done my part of the bargain according to the terms that we both
> agreed to.  You cannot change the rules midstream just because you dont
> like the way the game is going.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Xina
> 
> >
> > ************
> > everyone benefiting from my work please email
> > my postmaster, my site will move unless those appreciative
> > send email to counter those trying to destroy it
> > ************
> > A voice crying out and going unheard,
> > (40 years Oct 7) Nehemiah's (9:1) 50th JUBILEE of Tishri 24
> > God's 1000 years has begun Sep 14 of 1996.
> > http://www.execpc.com/~elijah/Ezra1991CE.gif
> >
> > Discover the world's true chronology thru the Bible at
> >           http://www.execpc.com/~elijah
-- 
Necron
Temple of the Ram
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Subject: Re: Scythians -- any site reports on research of pst ten years
From: iha@euronet.nl (iha)
Date: 15 Nov 1996 11:50:24 GMT
If you are interested in confirmation of hemp textiles from Pazryk
Kurgan 2
(Rudenko 1970) contact Robert Clarke at .
Rob is also interested in verifying (or refuting) suspected Cannabis
remains from archeological contexts.
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Subject: Re: Scythians -- any site reports on research of pst ten years
From: iha@euronet.nl (iha)
Date: 15 Nov 1996 11:55:43 GMT
If you are interested in confirmation of hemp textiles from Pazryk
Kurgan 2
(Rudenko 1970) contact Robert Clarke at .
Rob is also interested in verifying (or refuting) suspected Cannabis
remains from archeological contexts.
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Subject: Re: Archeological Cannabis Verification
From: iha@euronet.nl (iha)
Date: 15 Nov 1996 12:02:22 GMT
If you are interested in confirmation of hemp textiles from Pazryk
Kurgan 2
(Rudenko 1970) contact Robert Clarke at .
Rob is also interested in verifying (or refuting) suspected Cannabis
remains from archeological contexts.
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Subject: Re: Archeological Cannabis Verification
From: iha@euronet.nl (iha)
Date: 15 Nov 1996 12:02:59 GMT
If you are interested in confirmation of hemp textiles from Pazryk
Kurgan 2
(Rudenko 1970) contact Robert Clarke at .
Rob is also interested in verifying (or refuting) suspected Cannabis
remains from archeological contexts.
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Subject: Re: Bible Chronology vs. Archeology History, Intro (was: Part 1b)
From: rg10003@cus.cam.ac.uk (R. Gaenssmantel)
Date: 15 Nov 1996 12:59:45 GMT
Eliyehowah (elijah@wi.net) wrote:
: You goofed.....
: Part 1 hasnt even started....
: You call posting a slam against the Flood as being
: comparable to starting a convention debate?
: God knows then why your damn fields cant interpret the
: scientific reality !  You remind me of the story where Aveni 
: had the gaul to slam a fellow astronomer's presentation at the Swiss convention,
: exalting himself as self-appointed critic, when his own books prove he
: expounds on Mexican astronomy and presents so little on other cultures.
Could you please trim your headers? You are just starting aoff a new thread. If 
you don't cut them down on starting a new thread your keep on spamming all 
sorts of newsgroups - and there a re a lot of people out there who don't 
appreciate that.
Thanks,
Ralf
Follow-ups set to alt.religion.christian
: Dont pick a subject point in my case to start;
: pick one in YOUR subject case; or if you pick one from MY case, at least
: present the explanation for alternative view. 
That's not always necessary; sometimes a good question to a stated theory can 
evolve in either refuting or refining the theory. A weak spot in a theory can 
be easy to spot, that doesn't mean coming up with a self consitant new theory 
is as easy - but pointing out the weakness is the first step to do it.
Otherwise you'll always be stearing a strictly confrontational course.
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Subject: MacRae & Myers: THE CHOICE IS YOUR'S!
From: edconrad@prolog.net (Ed Conrad)
Date: 15 Nov 1996 13:04:06 GMT
For Andrew MacRae and Paul Myers:
Let's get down to brass tacks.
Both of you have been incredibly cynical about my claim of having
discovered petrified bone of large land animals -- including man --
between anthracite veins in Carboniferous strata where
established science insists it certainly doesn't belong.
Both of you, because of your special interests (and buoyed with the
challenge of shutting me up to score some valuable points  with your
colleagues), have been especially critical about these findings.
At this point in time, you have had numerous opportunities to see the
skull-like object embedded in the boulder which I insist is, beyond
all doubt, The World's Most Important Fossil, a human skull dating
back to the coal formations.
Do you still adamantly insist that the object embedded in the boulder
is nothing more than a concretion, a rock?
Do you still vehemently deny that it bears no resemblance -- none
whatsoever -- to a human skull?
To make it easy on yourself, I have written two answers (listed
below).
All you need do is pick one, then post it on talk.origins. Nothing
could be easier!
>                              (Answer No. 1)
Attention Asshole:
Your boulder and the different colored stuff in the center is a
concretion and bears NO resemblance -- none whatsoever _
to a human skull.
You're a lunatic, a bloomin' idiot and a dipshit.
As one of the posters stated, someday the ``men in the white coats"
will knock on your door and cart you away. It'll be what you deserve.
You've got nothing, pal. No petrified bones! No petrified soft organs!
No nothing! You're a  phony!  And your ``discoveries" are phonier than
you are.
I think I've made myself perfectly clear.
                                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>                                     Answer No. 2
Ed, I've examined the photos of the boulder rather carefully and have
come to the conclusion that, whatever is embedded in the center, it
certainly does bear a distinct resemble to the contour of a human
skull.
Of course, ``looking like" and ``being" are horses of different fire
departments. A confirmation -- either way -- will require considerable
testing.
In fact,  maybe an answer will still be inconclusive until the boulder
is broken apart to examine what is really inside.
Meanwhile, I realize I've given you a very hard time and  have to
admit, rather sheepishly, that my opinion of the cell structure of the
specimens I had examined microscopically was a bit off base.
After all, I frankly admit I've never examined petrified bone before,
therefore really don't know if you're correct in claiming that the
surrounding structure of the Haversian systems vanishes as a result
of the petrification process.
As for your collection of specimens found in the coal fields, I hope
you realize that I've been dismissing them as concretions -- nothing
more than naturally shaped rocks -- because this has been the party
line for the longest time (and most often in the past it has proven to
be correct).
But never before, to my mind, has anyone ever come up with such a wide
assortment of specimens that seem to bear a resemblance to bone and
even soft organs.
I will admit, if you had found only a half-dozen or so, I definitely
wouldn't make such a statement. But you claim that you've discovered
80,000 and, although I first chuckled about your arithmetic, I now
realize it's no tall tale.
What amazes me even further is that, as you've mentioned on the
internet, every one of the specimens is different (although a few are
somewhat siimiliar contour but of different sizes).
I'd say you have what you claim you have because you certainly 
have been producing intriguing specimens, one after another after
another.
In retrospect, I apologize for being so sarcastic and reving up my
colleagues by debunking your noble cause which, if I can believe you,
is neither fame nor fortune but to give mankind a basic truth about
our species.
Documentation that man is indeed as old as coal -- that our roots
extend far beyond that of the earliest inhuman primates of 65 million
years ago --  would be welcome news to all of humanity, especially in
these dismal times when, because we think we're nothing special, we
seem to have lost all respect for ourselves and our fellow man.
YES, it is my humble opinion that the object embedded in the boulder
does INDEED resemble a human skull.
I truly hope you will understand why I've done what I had to do and
will let bygones be bygones.
Meanwhile, I'd like you to know I would welcome the opportunity to
become an active participant in your further research.
.
You've said you bear no animosity against folks like me who have given
you such a hard time. If I can believe you -- and I do -- maybe we can
work together to help give mankind a wonderful gift of knowledge about
itself as we prepare to set foot into the 21st century.
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Subject: Re:Bible Chronology vs. Archeology History, Intro (was: Part 1b)
From: Xina
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 07:14:20 -0600
Eliyehowah wrote:
> 
> You goofed.....
> Part 1 hasnt even started....
Please see my post "Sorting out the Facts:" and would you 'PLEASE" stop
changing the subject line and stick to one thread.  I am very tired of
chasing you all over the newsgroups because you want to maintain control
of the debate. Your help in this would be greatly appreciated.  I think
"Sorting out the facts: (was Bible Chronology etc etc)" is *really* what
we are doing here.  
> You call posting a slam against the Flood as being
> comparable to starting a convention debate?
I call it posting my "stance" on the matter and backing it up with facts
and references.
> God knows then why your damn fields cant interpret the
> scientific reality ! 
It depends on your filter in determining the reality.  I dont consider
the bible 100% reality, nor do I consider the biblical flood a reality. 
I consider it to be a symbolic reference and I think that I gave
credible sources in order to facillitate making my point.
> My chronology IS NOT based on that Flood. Where do you think you can just> dispute it as impossible and thus throw the whole physical word of God out of the court. 
Do you or do you *not* think there was a Biblcal flood?  Do you or do
you NOT *think* you have a date for that event?  Do you or do you not
*believe* you have an absolute date for the Exodus?  Do you or do you
not *assert* that these events actually happened in Earth's history? 
Can you or can you NOT produce the _PHYSICAL_EVIDENCE_ for these events
outside of the KJV bible?  (The key word here is "version". It is a
"version" of the world's history.  Its not *my* problem the biblical
history and the physical evidence do not match up.)  I have an advantage
over you, Elijah.  I have NO EMOTIONAL STAKE in the outcome of this
discussion/debate, you do.  Your faith, who you are and everything you
beleive is on the line here.  I am perfectly willing to concede you are
right IF you can produce irrefutable PROOF that your biblical facts
match up to the known history of the earth, with (now remember this, we
went over it over and over) 1)proper citations and REFERENCES.  Can you
or can you NOT produce the reference materials to back it up?  I dont
want your gifs, or the KKV bible as proof, I want citations by
professors and scholars in PUBLISHED materials that are readily
available other than just because you said it is so. 
> You have NOT been asked to verify. You have been asked to state the general
> schematic of it. 
Please see my post "Sorting out the Facts"
 So a general schematic is NOT an effort to confine
> you so as to turn and call you with the card of being wrong. This is
> not a poker game of bluff. I am doing the appropriate thing of asking
> you to state your own case before you slam mine.
I thought I did that.  I went straight to the heart of what I know is
erroneous information.  That information that you started this with is
assuming that the bible is correct and building your scientific model
around it. 
 Or dont you know
> the case you are defending ! 
My case is that there is no data that is credible that gives your dating
of a flood (which didnt occur) or the upcoming gloom and doom that you
try to frighten children and small animals with.
I understand my case I am defending, and my
> level of comprehension is not so low as to NOT know the general case of what you choose to defend. 
What do you beleive I am defending, Elijah.  I simply do not CARE if you
are right, I know that you arent.  I have no emotional, spiritual or ego
stake in my being right, you on the other hand do.  What I do care about
is the FACT that you wouldnt know the Egyptian Chronology if it beat you
about the head and shoulders soundly because you are operating on false
assumptions that have no evidence to back them up. You cannot produce
proof if there is none to be had.
e. The evolution of the hulled ship
> is NOT that of Noah's chest-shaped ark. Yet it DOES come from the same 6:1 ratio in length.
In all my years I have never seen any other scholar or professor make
the notion that the ark was chest shaped.  
(snipped)
> You say (as the world says I presume) 20,000 BC where as I say the 2370 BC Flood created the ice caps, rain, snow, known precipitation cycles, and that it's 50 years 2370-2320 BC are C-14 misdated as 20,000-10,000 BC.
You "presume" a great deal, Elijah.  I don't think either of those dates
is correct.
> And the next 2320-2270 BC misdated as 10,000-2300 BC. I am not presenting my sources in this paragraph because you have yet to agree as to where the topic will start. 
I would be astounded if you *ever* present a source.
I said pick a topic. I didnt say start filabustering
> without me. It is already known that you will claim that 3000 BC is
> the existence of Egypt before my Floodyear 2370 BC. But as Halley's Bible Handbook on page 91 says "Egyptologists placing 600 years before the Flood events which must have come considerable time after the Flood.
I dont think I have ever seen any Egyptologist aknowlege the biblical
flood.  The Nile flooded more or less every year, but the even from
which you are referring and erroneously equating to your "Flood" of the
bible is referring to a mythological treatise of the arising from the
Nun. It may be considered a symbological metaphor for the creation of
the Earth, nothing more. It does not aknowlege your biblical flood.
 This seems like a conflict between
> Egyptian chronology and Bible chronology. ..some Egyptologists bring
> the beginning of the Egyptian historical period to this side of 2400 BC,
I would like to see your references for that statement.
 and it must be remembered that the Septuagint and Samaritan Pentateuch
> push the Bible date for the Flood back of 3000 BC."
There was no "Flood" of the bible. There is NO archeological,
geological, or biostratographic evidence.  Next....
> Because I know how to read such words without feeling insulted,
> I am capable of seeing that EGypt fits into the short stretch, rather than be insulted as if Halley expects me to accept the long false Genesis.
I dont even aknowlege the Genisis or the bible, and yet you expect me to
take it, and Halley as credible sources.  
> I cannot make a dinosaur go extinct before the Flood and then use the same data again as if they went extinct by the Flood. This is what ancient chronology does.
No, this is what some Creationist do in an attempt to prove the bible as
being without Flaw.  Please understand it is a human document, prone to
interpretation of oral traditions handed down for thousands of years,
after it was committed to paper several "versions", translations and
editions were made.  Therefore it is a HUMAN document, and prone to
error.  
. I will take it that you wish to start with C-14,
> or am I presuming?
Again, I feel you presume a great deal about my side of things and I
urge you to take a look at "Sorting out the Facts".  
> 
>I dont leap
> when people say jump. I tell them, get a brain. (Although I admit I do so in an emotional way. Let me blame my Italian mother.)
I would say that I have one and that disturbs you.  Do you need your
mother to help you with this? Or can you actually produce the references
that I asked you for.  
> >You cannot set up a scientific model without concrete factors.
> 
> That is EXACTLY my point. In your first post of this debate,
> you are tearing down the model I already have,
That is my objective, yes. 
> instead of posing questions and permitting me to present the
> bibliographies. Further, shame (mistake) on your part is that
> of demanding this model without even presenting a model of
> your own. Sorry! but if you wish to start against me, then post questions.
I just did, please see above.  If you can answer those you and I can
discuss. Please see "Sorting Out the Facts" for my first post on the
earth's age etc.  Subsequent posts will sort out the dates of the
Egyptian Chronology and then I will match it up with my model. I would
suggest you do the same with your models, present the data and match it
up so that this matches with the reality. (Reality = the science and the
"truth" you assert match up).
> If you wish to start with your own model, then present it (WHERE IS IT babe?).
If you are to address me, you will addresss me by my given name
Christina, Xina, or Madam.  You *will* accord me with this respect or I
shall have to cease all futher communications and debate. Do I make
myself understood"?  Manners cost you absolutely nothing, Elijah. Or did
your mother not make this apparent to you?
>  I say Adam was created in 4025 BC. 
Is Adam the first human, ie. Modern Man?  If that were so we would be
dating "Adam" at far before your date.  How can you conclude the 4025
date?  What criteria have you used in order to come up with this figure?
If you wish to
> claim Egypt before that, then do so, but you people usually fabricate a lie saying that I believe the planet was created in 4025 BC. I say day 1 began in 46,005 BC. And you people then say that I claim it is the age of the Earth.
I say your figure is far too low.  Please see my post "Sorting out the
Facts".
> I
> alternative, as in OKAY what knowledge did they have...how is it they can build> a pyramid and not a 500-foot chest of wood?
Because the pyramid took 20 years to build and several thousand workers
to build it.  It was intended as a burial chamber, it doesnt float, it
was not intended to house any living thing.  Noah only had his sons and
his wives to do such a thing, assumedly. 
> >I am waiting for ONE SINGLE SOURCE outside of the edited document that
> >you have to base your assumptions on.
> 
> WHAT edited document?  
Edited doucument = your bible.
I edit to make brevity, I do NOT edit to hide
> an author's view. I even use Sitchen admirably skilled to define Sumerian, yet openly tell others the quack believes we were dropped off by UFOs.
Scripture and psuedoscience to set up your model?  And S-I-T-C-H-E-N,
Zacharia, are you *seriously* using that man's work?  Why not throw Van
Daniken and Velikovsky in there too!
>
> I have now posted 5 times a GIF source from the convention of 1969.
So some bible believing scientist drew a table and presented it to a 
convention with no physical proof?
 It is not a table I drew up. The color lines indicate where
> the Britannica published Egypt epoch is versus the Hebrew Flood
> and the Egyptian C-14 supports the Flood as 2370 BC.
There was NO BIBLICAL FLOOD, there is NO evidence.  IF you have evidence
please present it.  This table is not evidence, it is a table.  It is
not geological, archaeological or biostratographic evidence.  
> I desire everyone who reads this
> and has seen the post to write Xina to tell her that according to her words above, she is refusing the source
My email box is empty of anyone supporting your claim, Elijah. All I
have been receiving are emails from other scholars and spectators saying
"How do you have the patience to endure this?"
> of the Nobel symposium 12 of Uppsala Sweden published in 1970. p.51
My question is, in this Nobel Symposium what kind of audience the author
met with?  Did the other scientists leave the room or did they simply
laugh him off the podium?
> (further scans of further C-14 charts will be posted; one is not enough
> for those too haughty to look, too blind to see)
That would mean to imply you have some actual data.
> I doubt very much that the refinement of C-14 since 1970 has come up
> with the 720 years other than to claim dendrochronology proves it.
> How can they say the carbon is wrong and the trees correct,
> when it may be the trees are wrong and the carbon is correct.
You are losing it my friend. Try not to be so emotionally attached to
being right.
>You take a stand with your life (your existence) by making the wrong >choice.
But that choice *is* God given is it not Unlike the rest for whom living
is an emotional endless fear of dying, I choose to live it and learn
what I can and make due with the world I now live in.  Not hoping to be
raptured because I and my fellow man messed up the one that God gave us
so badly.  I dont beleive in mankinds dominion as much as I beleive in
his incredible selfishness and ego.  Its a shame we cannot appreciate
the first gift.....our life and aknowlege that.
Regards,
Xina
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Subject: Re: GPS location tagged data capture in Archaeology
From: "Dan Ullén"
Date: 14 Nov 1996 21:07:43 GMT
Another program of the same sort is MicroStation Field (earlier known as
FieldNotes).
This program is sold through Bentley who also has the great CAD-program
MicroStation 95.
MicroStation Field can deal with GPS, images, CAD-drawings, databases and
pencomputers. We use it for fieldwork at Stockholm University and Gotland
University in Sweden, mainly because it's easy to use and can easily be
customized for educational purposes.
We use MicroStation Field as a way to display databases in relation to
plans. Clicking on a find opens a VisualBasic form with all the info on the
find and even a photograph if necessary.
If I was to build an archaeological GIS without the students in mind
though, I'd rather use MicroStation 95 with its possibilities to store a
lot of information to graphic objects.
This isn't really meant as commercial info but I will give you Bentley's
address anyway.
http://www.bentley.com
http://www.bentley.com/products/microstation95/
http://www.bentley.com/products/field/
Please e-mail me if you have any questions or ideas about computers in
field arcaheology.
Dan Ullén   dan.ullen@swipnet.se
Stockholm
Sweden
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Subject: MacRae & Myers: THE CHOICE IS YOUR'S!
From: edconrad@prolog.net (Ed Conrad)
Date: 15 Nov 1996 14:12:26 GMT
Out of courtesy to possible newcomers -- in the dark about the
controversy which has been raging since last March -- a bit
of information follows:
The dynamite was ignited by Ted Holden when, as part
of HIS home page, he posted:
>  http://access.digex.com/~medved/conrad/conmain.htm
which is entitled:
>                       PETRIFIED HUMAN/HOMIND
>                      AND OTHER LARGE ANIMAL
>                 BONE IN CARBONIFEROUS STRATA
This page was prepared totally by Ted, but it permitted
me to have my own say in the matter at
>  http://www.access.digex.net/~medved/conrad/contest1.htm
which is entitled:
>                          MAN AS OLD AS COAL
Just recently, Ted added two color photos I had sent him, of what I
claim is a petrified human skull embedded in -- and protruding from --
a boulder which had been extracted from between anthracite veins
near Shenandoah, Pa., during a surface-mining operation.
The boulder is mentioned deep into Ted's home page and can be called
up for viewing by turning to:
>    http://www.access.digex.net/~medved/conrad/skulla.jpg
A second photo offers a comparison with the contour of a human
skull and can be seen at:
>   http://www.access.digex.net/~medved/conrad/skullb.jpg
I should like to note that both Andrew MacRae of the Univerity of
Calgary and Paul Myers of Temple University have home pages of their
own concerning some of this subject matter.
Their material can easily be found by using Netscape.
Since I have never prepared a home page --- and, quite frankly, don't
know how to do so -- I was never in a position to include references
to the home pages of either Andrew MacRae or Paul Myers on the pages
that, loosely translated, are mine.
The bottom line in the controversy so far -- at least I think so -- is
the insistence by Andrew MacRae and Paul Myers that their microscopic
evaluation of the cell structure of a few of my specimens they had
examined does not reveal the presence of Haversian systems.
I have kept telling them that they can look 'til they're blue in the
face because they'll never see the structures surrounding the
Haversian canals as is clearly evident in non-petrified bone.
They don't seem to get the message that, quite simply, the process
of petrification has caused the surrounding structure to disappear,
leaving only the Haversian canals as the proof that the rock-like
objects are bone.
A comparison of photos of the cell structure of non-petrified bone and
the cell structure of one of my specimens can be seen at:
>      http://www.access.digex.net/~medved/conrad/c2.jpg
Additionally, a comparison of the interior surface features of
non-petrified bone and one of my specimens -- taken with a scanning
electron microscope (SEM) -- can be viewed at:
>     http://www.access.digex.net/~medved/conrad/bones.jpg
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Subject: Re: Roman Elevators????
From: Saida
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 10:22:54 -0600
Mr. Pink wrote:
> 
> While researching in school I had read a book that mentioned the fact
> that Romans had steam powered elevators?!?
> 
> Is this true, was it a bad dream, can anyone shed some light?
> 
> thanx
> 
> -just a fan of the roman empire
I didn't know they had any buildings tall enough to make elevators 
necessary, but then I could be wrong.  Steam-powered elevators--I hope 
the pyramidiots don't get wind of this.  That might fuel a discussion 
that could last for at least a month.  Maybe you just read somewhere 
that Julius Caesar wore elevator shoes.  Sweet dreams!
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Subject: Bible Chronology vs. Archeology History, Intro2
From: Eliyehowah
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 10:41:55 +0000
After posting this I will look for this SORTING post.
>Please see my post "Sorting out the Facts:" and would you 'PLEASE" stop
>changing the subject line and stick to one thread.  I am very tired of
>chasing you all over the newsgroups because you want to maintain control
>of the debate. Your help in this would be greatly appreciated.  I think
>"Sorting out the facts: (was Bible Chronology etc etc)" is *really* what
>we are doing here.  
I wanted to keep our posted thread separate from the answers I give to other
people coming in with comments. Thus I assumed that you would realize that
the threads of Thera and exodus were not in our convention but
public replies to others added remarks. The topic title itself was shortened
for easier added notations.
>> You call posting a slam against the Flood as being
>> comparable to starting a convention debate?
>I call it posting my "stance" on the matter and backing it up with facts
>and references.
But the matter of TIME was not established. What time are you saying
DID not occur?
You present no alternative of WHAT WAS occurring for that time.
And thus reveal your empty speech, and empty reference.
>> God knows then why your damn fields cant interpret the
>> scientific reality ! 
>> My chronology IS NOT based on that Flood. Where do you think you can just
> dispute it as impossible and thus throw the whole physical word of God out of the court. 
(The key word here is "version". It is a
>"version" of the world's history.  Its not *my* problem the biblical
>history and the physical evidence do not match up.)
No I did not say that biblical histopry and evidence do not line up.
I said that your timeline and my timeline comes from two different
interpretations of the same data. Thus that data must be shown first,
at that is done by an outline as to where we place that data.
Your pyramid versus my pyramid. Your dinosaurs versus my dinosaurs.
Then we can talk evidence.
>I have an advantage
>over you, Elijah.  I have NO EMOTIONAL STAKE in the outcome of this
>discussion/debate, you do.  Your faith, who you are and everything you
>beleive is on the line here.
I agree.
>1)proper citations and REFERENCES.  Can you
>or can you NOT produce the reference materials to back it up?  I dont
>want your gifs
It is highly unprofessional of you to presume a GIF is my own construction
and not scanned directly out of a book. If you wish to know what
I highlighted to help explain, you can ask rather than say THIS IS YOURS
ELI, AND I XINA SAID DONT PRESENT THIS TRASH
The Flood is NOT a date one starts with (not in ANY accurate Bible
chronology). One counts BACK to the flood. The post-Flood history is
usually the most stated evidence of historical dispute. You appear
to find it easier to dispute the Flood and thus say the timeline
for postFlood history crashes with it. No it doesnt. It could be
a local flood and the short-history still says the short-length
chronology is correct.
> Or dont you know
>> the case you are defending ! 
>My case is that there is no data that is credible that gives your dating
>of a flood (which didnt occur) or the upcoming gloom and doom that you
>try to frighten children and small animals with.
Damn lying propaganda. Children have no idea the type of gloom such
a scenerio implies. It is your own ego as regards your responsibility
for those children which is insulted. You tell your children the doom
I preach so you can teach them I'm nuts. And then when disaster happens
you play dumb, like how could this happen, it is such a surprise no
one could have saved lives, it proves no God, or that he's bad, etc.
NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT. THIS IS NOT YOUR CASE OR THIS MEETING HAS CLOSED.
YOU ARE NOT AN ATTORNEY. IF YOU WERE I WOULD REMAIN SILENT AS JESUS
SO AS TO PROVE THAT YOU ARE KILLERS OF ANY PATH TO CHRIST. YOUR CASE
IS AND WILL BE YOUR SOLID FAITH AND BELIEF IN HISTORY AS BEING YOUR WAY.
PRESENT IT OR CLOSE THIS MEETING.
Nobody is asking you to be any greater a scientist
or scholar than I myself am. That is what sources and references are for.
They express your feelings about a matter thru other's words. Some of them
assholes.
>What do you beleive I am defending, Elijah.  I simply do not CARE if you
>are right, I know that you arent.  I have no emotional, spiritual or ego
>stake in my being right, you on the other hand do.  What I do care about
>is the FACT that you wouldnt know the Egyptian Chronology if it beat you
>about the head and shoulders soundly because you are operating on false
>assumptions that have no evidence to back them up. You cannot produce
>proof if there is none to be had.
You claimed there'd be no stone throwing by mere bias feelings. And yet
you have just stated that I am wrong enough about Egypt that I would be
stupid to comprehend your presentation of Egypt so that your hands are
washed free from having to present your case of Egypt. Why are you
people with the biggest boastful mouths the one's who present all kinds
of rebuttal references and NONE for the support of your own schenatics.
It is because as long as you do not present Egypt, you know I cannot
rebutt it. THIS CONVENTION IS CLOSED if you fail to present your
alternative case for Egypt. Christians can be assured that my Egypt
*IS* correct. They can be assured that I am NOT so exalted a scholar
to talk personally directly to me (I dont refer people to my published books,
I have none, and wouldnt have the audacity to do this even if I had
published books), and therefore I humbly expose myself to you critics by
sharing publicly the Egyptian chronology I am willing to teach,
versus your stand of criticism without presenting your Egypt to
be criticised. Seems I'm more willing to lower myself to risk
injust execution than you are.
>In all my years I have never seen any other scholar or professor make
>the notion that the ark was chest shaped.  
God you are so wrong. Not only have I seen my mother's Watchtower,
but numerous other publications, including a TV documentary which showed
the chest in a tank of water. Said the lower it was, the more stable;
yet I find that scholars are incapable of realizing that when Moses said
15 cubits above earth (soil) and mountains, he referred to 15 cubits to lift
the ark off the ground.
>I said pick a topic. I didnt say start filabustering
>> without me. It is already known that you will claim that 3000 BC is
>> the existence of Egypt before my Floodyear 2370 BC. But as Halley's Bible Handbook on page 91 says "Egyptologists placing 600 years before the Flood events which must have come considerable time after the Flood.
>I dont think I have ever seen any Egyptologist aknowlege the biblical
>flood.  The Nile flooded more or less every year, but the even from
>which you are referring and erroneously equating to your "Flood" of the
>bible is referring to a mythological treatise of the arising from the
>Nun. It may be considered a symbological metaphor for the creation of
>the Earth, nothing more. It does not aknowlege your biblical flood.
> This seems like a conflict between
>> Egyptian chronology and Bible chronology. ..some Egyptologists bring
>> the beginning of the Egyptian historical period to this side of 2400 BC,
>I would like to see your references for that statement.
PUBLIC NOTICE: this convention is now closed. Xina as many others before her
has now taken a quote of words which are not mine but which are a quote
from a book stated by title and page, and has asked for reference of a reference.
It shows she as her kind will like a 2-year old ask WHY to answers of WHY
to answers of WHY. I am able to answer why after why after why for a toddler,
it teaches them the fact that knowledge is a link and not simple confinement.
But such toddler behavior by adults will be ignored; no longer disputed by me
wasting my time. I cannot be asked for reference of a reference of a reference
as a game to win a verbal war. I would not do that of her references and
expect the same respect. But I have also just realized that perhaps she just
wants these names.
p.91
Rawlinson as 2450 BC
Wilkonson as 2320 BC
Scharpe as 2000 BC
and Watchtower's AID to Bible Understanding says  p.325 that Palmer gives 2224 BC
My copy of Ussher's Latin (1650 AD) gives Egypt as starting with Beon 2082-2066 BC
(would have to check this name and start year whether it is Beon or Saites....
but know that he ends 2066 BC because I recognized it as July 21 for Phamenoth 1)
[1938 AM]
>There was no "Flood" of the bible. There is NO archeological,
>geological, or biostratographic evidence.  Next....
Yes she wants it closed. This is proven by the fact she ignores the
content of the quote as showing that arguments of Egyptology claimed as
being preFlood are refuted by the fact that Genesis chronologies vary
with some placing the Flood in 3090 BC (unlike Ussher's 2349 BC).
We are not discussing what kind of flood, but rather the year of ANY
flood which Genesis may have referred to. This is why it is important for
the public to know that some SCHOLARS claim a Flood of 10,000 BC
(some say local, a remote few say global).
For those who wish to read that quote again without her disect...
"Egyptologists placing 600 years before the Flood events which must have come considerable 
time after the Flood
> This seems like a conflict between
>> Egyptian chronology and Bible chronology. ..some Egyptologists bring
>> the beginning of the Egyptian historical period to this side of 2400 BC,
 and it must be remembered that the Septuagint and Samaritan Pentateuch
>> push the Bible date for the Flood back of 3000 BC."
>> Because I know how to read such words without feeling insulted,
>> I am capable of seeing that EGypt fits into the short stretch,
rather than be insulted as if Halley expects me to accept the long false Genesis.
>I dont even aknowlege the Genisis or the bible, and yet you expect me to
>take it, and Halley as credible sources.
So you are proud to stick your nose up at your enemies. Halley is my enemy,
they teach contrary to many of my beliefs, and yet I was able to learn from
some things which I saw were facts, and I was also able to learn from their error.
But you like a cult, shun, make repugnant, nose-up at, what you predetermine.
This convention is a presentation, and not merely a worship-my-one-source-demand.
Your use of crappy authors for disputing the knowledge available to a time period
(Noah's) which you wont even attempt to fix by year is empty speech.
One buries crap, they dont shove it in their ears.
>> I cannot make a dinosaur go extinct before the Flood and then use the same data again as if they went extinct by the Flood. This is what ancient chronology does.
>No, this is what some Creationist do in an attempt to prove the bible as
>being without Flaw.  Please understand it is a human document, prone to
>interpretation of oral traditions handed down for thousands of years,
>after it was committed to paper several "versions", translations and
>editions were made.  Therefore it is a HUMAN document, and prone to
>error.  
Prone to error doesnt exalt Egyptian documents over it. It is an issue
of WHO's in error. You WORSHIP your sources, I dont worship mine and yet
you claim I do. This is all propaganda of which I do not convene with
such meetings. Thus a respect must be immediately enforced or this is over.
>. I will take it that you wish to start with C-14,
>> or am I presuming?
>Again, I feel you presume a great deal about my side of things and I
>urge you to take a look at "Sorting out the Facts".  
>> >You cannot set up a scientific model without concrete factors.
>> That is EXACTLY my point. In your first post of this debate,
>> you are tearing down the model I already have,
>That is my objective, yes. 
This convention is NOT for you to attack using the anti-Bible
propaganda of other atheist scholars who have no facts but stand
on the pedestal of their name or the esteem you give them.
Where's your reference to the statement that chest building was
NOT known in Noah's days, and what year was those days you are
claiming this for.
>> instead of posing questions and permitting me to present the
>> bibliographies. Further, shame (mistake) on your part is that
>> of demanding this model without even presenting a model of
>> your own. Sorry! but if you wish to start against me, then post questions.
>I just did, please see above.  If you can answer those you and I can
>discuss. Please see "Sorting Out the Facts" for my first post on the
>earth's age etc.  Subsequent posts will sort out the dates of the
>Egyptian Chronology and then I will match it up with my model. I would
>suggest you do the same with your models, present the data and match it
>up so that this matches with the reality. (Reality = the science and the
>"truth" you assert match up).
Okay, seems you caught my point...convention still open.
>> If you wish to start with your own model, then present it (WHERE IS IT babe?).
>If you are to address me, you will addresss me by my given name
>Christina, Xina, or Madam.  You *will* accord me with this respect or I
>shall have to cease all futher communications and debate. Do I make
>myself understood"?  Manners cost you absolutely nothing, Elijah. Or did
>your mother not make this apparent to you?
My mother is like you, demands manners from family and gives none out
except to all nonfamily members. But I respect her for her boldness
to speak out at times when everyone else goes dog-tailed.
>>  I say Adam was created in 4025 BC. 
>Is Adam the first human, ie. Modern Man?  If that were so we would be
>dating "Adam" at far before your date.  How can you conclude the 4025
>date?  What criteria have you used in order to come up with this figure?
The chronology is Watchtower chronology. Our first parent Adam was
created in 4025 BC and lived 930 years (flood came in 2370 BC as 1656 years).
My prophecies indicate a 4005 BC for Eve and 3955 BC for her act of
making all her own decisions without Adam. And Adam's act of dropping any
value to retaining essential knowledge to life. This is only a timescale
statement at this point of argument. I agree that a flood year would
be a better starting point because....your evidence for early man is
regarded by me as postFlood (caves, C-14, cold weather, ice ages).
I present Josephus (book 1) whose troglodytes were postFlood.
>If you wish to
>> claim Egypt before that, then do so, but you people usually fabricate a lie saying that I believe the planet was created in 4025 BC. I say day 1 began in 46,005 BC. And you people then say that I claim it is the age of the Earth.
>I say your figure is far too low.  Please see my post "Sorting out the
>Facts".
>> alternative, as in OKAY what knowledge did they have...how is it they can build
> a pyramid and not a 500-foot chest of wood?
>Because the pyramid took 20 years to build and several thousand workers
>to build it.  It was intended as a burial chamber, it doesnt float, it
>was not intended to house any living thing.  Noah only had his sons and
>his wives to do such a thing, assumedly. 
Presnetation: please see it thru first.
Pyramid....as Bible long chronology can be tomb. In Genesis short chronology
nobody was foreseen to die from aging until 2030 BC (as 340 years after Flood).
Thus the pyramid whose main shaft is Thuban's 2170 BC can only be astronomical
for counting time. Tomkins SECRET OF GP says traditions claim to count to the
end of the world. (Forgotten source probably in my reach says Seth was a
100-year cycle) Britannica claims Hindu have 100-year Jupiter, others say
Big Dipper, Krupp's ancient astronomy says SETH is Big Dipper. (pages upon request)
Since all 4th generation Genesis (KuFu) lived 460 years, there is no proof of
a 20-year construction. Further the correct quote of 25 years for it is based
on 25-year Osiris (309 lunar months = 25 Egyptian years of 9125 days).
As an observatory of the Big Dipper to the north, it replaced the Ararat peak,
and it thus was viewed by some as opposing that land's authority. It's
40-day Osiris myth represents Noah, as does also the stone chest of its
Most Holy in the shape of an ark to the dimensions of dying man. No mummy
was ever found inside the main chamber of a pyramid, and I contend that
it was symbolic and really used for records as was the ark of the covenant.
This all based on having no concern for death until 2030 BC because they all
presumed they would live 900 years. Carbon-14 is what crashed longevity.
Now I realize this is quite a fantasy, but it covers all bases. Its logical
links are not UFOs, they explain Moses' view in stance against Egypt etc.
>> >I am waiting for ONE SINGLE SOURCE outside of the edited document that
>> >you have to base your assumptions on.
>Edited doucument = your bible.
a GIF of C-14 is not the Bible...you imply you still havent seen it,
nor choose to see it, nor choose to understand it, or ask what it says.
>I edit to make brevity, I do NOT edit to hide
>> an author's view. I even use Sitchen admirably skilled to define Sumerian, yet openly tell others the quack believes we were dropped off by UFOs.
>Scripture and psuedoscience to set up your model?  And S-I-T-C-H-E-N,
>Zacharia, are you *seriously* using that man's work?  Why not throw Van
>Daniken and Velikovsky in there too!
He defines a word, and you label that as ALL his work.
See you choose to scoff at men as a whole, and not just scoff at their error.
I havent even quoted which words of Sitchen's and you already are plug-earred.
He says a tradition exists in Damascus Lebanon that their tower temple
was built in 133 AM by Nimrod. Are you calling Sitchen a liar in saying
that these people have no such tradition. So Xina, you are absolutely
valueless if some scholar would send you into the world to gather data.
>> I have now posted 5 times a GIF source from the convention of 1969.
>So some bible believing scientist drew a table and presented it to a 
>convention with no physical proof?
The chart is NOT a bible believing scientist. The flood-year lines are
placed by me....the C-14 is what the chart reveals as being 720 years
earlier than your 3090 BC Egypt. I am beginning to see that you are NOT a scholar,
not even if a school claims they've made you one.
> It is not a table I drew up. The color lines indicate where
>> the Britannica published Egypt epoch is versus the Hebrew Flood
>> and the Egyptian C-14 supports the Flood as 2370 BC.
>There was NO BIBLICAL FLOOD, there is NO evidence.  IF you have evidence
>please present it.  This table is not evidence, it is a table.  It is
>not geological, archaeological or biostratographic evidence.  
>> I desire everyone who reads this
>> and has seen the post to write Xina to tell her that according to her words above, she is refusing the source
>My email box is empty of anyone supporting your claim, Elijah. All I
>have been receiving are emails from other scholars and spectators saying
>"How do you have the patience to endure this?"
>> of the Nobel symposium 12 of Uppsala Sweden published in 1970. p.51
>My question is, in this Nobel Symposium what kind of audience the author
>met with?  Did the other scientists leave the room or did they simply
>laugh him off the podium?
>> (further scans of further C-14 charts will be posted; one is not enough
>> for those too haughty to look, too blind to see)
>That would mean to imply you have some actual data.
>> I doubt very much that the refinement of C-14 since 1970 has come up
>> with the 720 years other than to claim dendrochronology proves it.
>> How can they say the carbon is wrong and the trees correct,
>> when it may be the trees are wrong and the carbon is correct.
>>You take a stand with your life (your existence) by making the wrong >choice.
>Not hoping to be
>raptured because I and my fellow man messed up the one that God gave us
>Xina
Knowing you, you make this rapture thing a personal attack,
of which my view of rapture is the first resurrection to heaven
in a twinkling of an eye from the mass death or slaughter by the
government. No bodies are seen raising, and no spirits either.
But the government does become guilty of killing those with NO WEAPONS
on premises and no suicide intent. Jesus led the way of sacrifice.
What *IS* the sacrifice? It is giving your life to save humans alive
thru Armageddon disaster as humans. Any day I rather die to save
those thru this global disaster than to die in Korean war, in Vietnam war,
in Gulf war. I'm a soldier for God's government not any other.
And as Paul says my weapon is my tongue,
unlike Peter who took a sword, but who couldnt defend Jesus with tongue.
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Subject: Horses (was: Etruscans)
From: John Cowan
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 16:05:22 GMT
Steve Whittet replied to me thus:
> >> Just to give an analogy, after man arrived in the New World and
> >> hunted big game like bears, bison and mamoths to the point of
> >> extinction horses evolved some twenty two new *species* to fill
> >> the niche. Man has been in New Guinea about 70 times as long
> >> as it took the new World horses to evolve.
Note the structure of this claim is that the following events
occurred, in the given order:
	1.  Man arrived in the New World.
	2.  Man hunted bears, bison, and mammoths to extinction
	3.  Horses evolved 22 new species to fill the niche
	    (a horse filling a bear's niche would be quite something!)
> >Now this is the merest rubbish.  Within historic times there have
> >been only two species of horses (plus two ass and three zebra
> >species):
I said "historic times", i.e. 6,000 B.P. at most.  Even extending
that back to 30,000 B.P. or so, the date of event 1 above
has nothing to do with equine evolution.
[irrelevancies removed]
[Table showing evolution of equids from *Hyracotherium* to
*Equus* removed: the most *recent* event in this table is
2 My B.P.]
[more on pre-*Equus* species removed]
> However, one-toed
> Equus was very successful. Until about 1 million years ago, there
> were Equus species all over Africa, Asia, Europe, North America,
> and South America, in enormous migrating herds that must easily
> have equalled the great North American bison herds, or the huge
> wildebeest migrations in Africa.
> 
> In the late Pleistocene there was a set of devastating extinctions
> that killed off most of the large mammals in North and South America.
> All the horses of North and South America died out (along with the
> mammoths and saber-tooth tigers). These extinctions seem to have
> been caused by a combination of climatic changes and overhunting
> by humans, who had just reached the New World.
> 
> For the first time in tens of millions of years, there were no equids
> in the Americas.
Note well the dating.  *Until about 1 My ago* there were many
species of horses.  *Nobody* thinks that there were *Homo sapiens*
in the New World 1 My ago.
[3 species of zebras removed]
>      Equus caballus, the true horse, which once had several subspecies.
Subspecies aren't species.
[P's wild horse and 2 species of asses removed]
> In North America Equus Caballus developed into a number of species
> to fill the niches of other animals going extinct sometime before
> it went extinct itself.
Which was in the 1 My time frame, not the 30Ky (or 11Ky) time frame.
Or do you think 60,000-90,000 years negligible?
> >Mr. Whittet is plainly smoking some unusual juice here.
> 
> Research first, then post.
Understand what you read, too.
-- 
John Cowan						cowan@ccil.org
			e'osai ko sarji la lojban
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Subject: Re: Shang script among Olmecs
From: yuku@io.org (Yuri Kuchinsky)
Date: 15 Nov 1996 15:07:36 GMT
Paul E. Pettennude (tekdiver@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: Yes, Yuri.  David is a Master of Shang script as well. 
So is Prof. Chen. He's the _leading_ Chinese scholar of the Shang script. 
Yuri.
--
           **    Yuri Kuchinsky in Toronto   **
  -- a webpage like any other...  http://www.io.org/~yuku  --
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being 
unable to sit still in a room    ||    B. Pascal
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Subject: Re: Sorting Out the Facts: Chronologies for the Earth's Age and True History of Mankind
From: whittet@shore.net (Steve Whittet)
Date: 15 Nov 1996 16:37:40 GMT
In article <328BE729.64AA@netins.net>, Xina@netins.net says...
>
>In response to Elijah's earlier post entitled" "Bible Chronon vs.
>Archaeology...etc etc)
...snip...
>1)  bacteria - 3.8 billion years
>2)  Blue Green Algae or Cyanobacteria - 2.9 billion years
>3)  Eukaryotes( first plant and animal cells with nucleus) - 1.45
>billion years
>4)  Multicelled animals - 680 million years
>5)  Fish  - 530 Million years
>6)  Land Plants - 400 million years
>7)  Amphibians - 370 million years
>8)  Reptiles - 340 Million years
>9)  Mammals - 200 Million years
>10) Dinosaurs 200 million years
>11) Birds - 175 Million Years
so far, so good but we should include:
Proconsul Africanus (ape) - 18 MYBP
Ramapithicus (ape) 13 MYBP
Sivapithicus (ape) 8-11 MYBP ancestor of orangutan
My sources may be a bit out of date, 
"Times Atlas of Archaeology", Hammond, 1988
gives man diverging from the apes 5-6 million years BP
The main branches of the bush shoot out in the Miocene
but Man diverged from the Chimpanzee and the Gorilla
only in the Pleistocene
Australopithicus is the key branch
Australopithicus Afarensis lead to several non ancestral branches
Lucy is an example of Afarensis dated to c 3.5 MYBP
>12) Austrolpithencus Africanus - 4.5 million years 
>13) Australopithecs rubustus - 4 million years
Australopithicus Boisei died out 1MYBP
Australopithicus Robustus died out 1MYBP
Australopithicus Afarensis died out 2MYBP
and a branch which did lead to us through
Homo Habilis and Homo Erectus c 1.7 MYBP
virtually indistinguishablr from modern man
except for a more prominent brow ridge and slightly
heavier bones.
>14) Homo Habilus - 3.5 million years
>15) Homo Erectus - 2 million years
The earliest fossils refered to as Homo date to 2.5 MYBP
and are refered to as the Oldowan from about 2.5 to 1.7 MYBP
Xinas numbers are close enough but the most interesting
portion of all she skips right over.
Here we have a rather large block of time from c 1.5 MYBP
down to about 120,000 years BP called the Acheulian in which 
mankind manages to invent tools, fire, and a sense of community.
Now it becomes interesting to look at mankinds evolution in 
response to climate. During the last million years there have
been about 15 ice ages and a pole reversal. The pole reversal
corresponds well to a period of generally colder climate.
Seven of the 15 ice ages during the last pole reversal were
colder than the worst case in the previous pole reversal
by up to a factor of two.
We presently live in a period which going back to the Acheulian
has been warmer than any period in the last two pole reversals.
Our last major ice age which ended some 11,000 years BP reached 
at its worst about the same level as the best conditions during
the period between 800,000 and 550,000 years ago.
Early Homo Erectus hominids in Asia date to 1.7 MYBP just as
they do in Africa. By 1.3 MYBP these hominids had reached Java.
Homo Sapiens was in Java by 120,000 years BP. Recent discoveries
indicate Homo Sapiens may have reached Australia 175,000 years BP.
The caves of Zhoukidan in China contain evidence of intermitent
occupation from Homo Erectus through Homo Sapiens over a period
of 100,000 years.
Borneo has occupation levels going back to 40,000 BP and the
Phillipines have occupation levels going back to 23,000 BP,
At Mt Carmel in Palestine Neanderthal remains have been found 
in association with Homo Sapiens Sapiens remains dating back
to 90,000 years BP indicating that both may have been one
species with simply a climatic adaptation to a colder climate.
>16) Homo Sapiens Neanderthalenesis - 200,000 years
>17) Homo Sapiens Sapiens - 30,000 years  (See source #1)
>
>
>This puts us right up to the Upper Paleolithic Age, which went from
>30,000 BC to 10,000 BC.  From there we can go to our second source
>(2)"Archeaology of the Land of the Bible 10,000 BC - 586 BC by Amihai
>Mazar(Professor at the University of Tel-Aviv in Israel) 1992 Doubleday
>Publishing)  We are now into the Neoltihtic age.
>
>Pre-Pottery Neolithic A         ca. 8500 - 7500 BCE
>Pre Pottery Neolithic B         ca. 7500 - 6000 BCE
>Pottery Neolithic A             ca. 6000 - 5000 BCE
>Pottery Neolithic B             ca. 5000 - 4300 BCE 
This really depends somewhat on where you are doing your archaeology
The Neolithic has some variations in dating depending on whether
you are digging in Anatolia, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Iraq or Egypt.
>Chalcolithic                    ca. 4300 - 3300 BCE
>Early Bronze                    ca. 3300 - 3050 BCE
>Early Bronze II -III            ca. 3050 - 2300 BCE*
>Early Bronze IV/Middle Bronze I ca. 2300 - 2000 BCE*
>Middle Bronze IIA               ca. 2000 - 1800/1750 BCE
>Middle Bronze IIB-C             ca. 1800/1750 - 1550 BCE
>Late Bronze I                   ca. 1500 - 1400 BCE
>Late Bronze II A-B              ca. 1400 - 1200 BCE
>Iron IA                         ca. 1200 - 1150 BCE
>Iron IB                         ca. 1150 - 1000 BCE
>Iron IIA                        ca. 1000 -  925 BCE
>Iron IIB                        ca. 925 - 720 BCE
>Iron IIC                        ca. 720- 586 BCE
>
>
>* Elijah's alleged date for the biblical flood. 
It is worth noting that the Tigris and Euphrates rivers once
flowed to the Gulf of Oman and along the way were joined by 
other rivers all of which fed a wide and broad river plain
which existed where the Persian Gulf is today at just the
time man was learning to domesticate animals and grow crops.
Between 15,000 and 3,000 BC this river plain, connected to 
a savannah like grassland extending from the mountains of the Red Sea
across Arabia to the Zagros mountains. The mouth of this river was
not far from the mouth of the Indus and probably connected people
using it to travel from India to its headwaters in Anatolia.
All of these people were displaced by the rising waters as 
the glaciers began to melt. Does that sound like something
which could give rise to a legend of a flood? Maybe. 
It have culminated c 6,000 - 3,000 BC with a large area being
flooded suddenly between Bahrain and Mesopotamia.
The actual Biblical flood crest is given at 15 cubits or 
about 18' 9". The phrase "submerged mountains" may just mean
it reached the foothills of the Zagros.
We are used to a foot of sea level rise flooding about 300 feet
but in a very flat area like the floor of the Persian Gulf
a foot rise in sea level could flood a mile or more. 
Since it would be submerging both sides of a river you can 
double that. A 38 mile wide flood lasting 150 days along 
several hundred miles of river would be pretty devestating.
Apparently it was the better part of a year before things
dried out and got back to normal. Harvests may have been
ruined and there was very likely something equivalent to
the flooding of Bangaladesh in the sixties with unburied
corpses bringing cholera, dysentary and typhus.
So we have the Epic of Gilgamesh and a flood story with maybe
some basis in fact as far as the flooding wiping out all the
*known* world at that time. People retreating upstream from
rising waters would eventually have arrived at Mt Arrarat.
The Noah bit originates with the Epic of Gilgamesh, but
is not afraid to add a few glosses on for good measure.
The ages of Patriarchs given probably need to be divided 
by 12 to convert from ages in months to ages in years.
What about this ark thing?
People were building boats of more than 100 feet in length
c 3,000 BC. We have bas reliefs from tombs contemporary with the
beginnings of civilization in Egypt showing us what they looked like.
Cubits vary in length. The Royal cubit used to build the pyramids
was about 21" long, The cubit Solomon measured with may have been 18"
long, but there was also a geographical cubit of about 15" long.
The stem and stern posts of ancient ships extended a long way 
after leaving the water. A ship of 375 feet from stem to stern
might have had a water line of less than 200 feet. It would have
been beamy at 62'6" but probably both sturdy and seaworthy with 
a draft of perhaps 15' it might have had a hold and more than one deck.
That is bigger than anything we know for sure was built but not
a great deal bigger. A cedar vessel built during the reign of
Sneferu c 2575- 2551 BC was 172 feet long. The vessels buried
in the boat pits at Giza are over 100 feet in length.
Now as to what its cargo was there are two different versions and
the first is probably a later gloss upon the second which informs
Noah to provision his ship with flesh.
Provide yourself with eatables of all kinds and lay in a store of
them to serve as food for yourself and your sons, your wife and 
your sons wives. We need food for eight people.
Seven of every clean type of animal and two unclean animals,
and seven of each of the birds of heaven for sacrifices.
>Essentially the Pyramids were built within the period around the Early
>Bronze Age, if the flood occured there would be an interuption of this
>age into the next one, in fact there would be noticable setback in
>pottery and in building etc. 
The original story was probably designed for a Mesopotamian
audience who could care less about what was going on outside 
their own world.They probably defined that world by how far 
you can walk in a day. 
Egypt would have been less affected by the rise in sea level 
because its change in elevation as you come back from the sea 
occurs more rapidly, and also the Egyptians were fairly used 
to annual floods of the Nile. 
To them the whole thing was no big deal.
>
>I will post a pharonic chronology later this week.
>
>My questions are:
>
>If Adam was the 'first man' (or was he the first white man as some here
>have proposed) then we can actually date him to over 10,000 years ago. 
Lets not forget those Nephilim, they were around at the beginning
and apparently "even afterward".
>If the biblical flood was an actuality, *why* was there no break in the
>architecture, art and culture of any civilization in the areas of africa
>and Europe at that time?
Suppose it flooded the Persian Gulf at a time when that area was
a flourishing civilization. Then that cultures remenants went on 
to become the Indus Valley Culture and Mesopotamia.
>
>I will need to see how you explain away several billion years of
>pre-history.
Ok, Noah says "We don't count the Nephilim, they aren't our people, 
we are just giving you a family history"
>
>
>SOURCE LIST:
>
>(1) 'Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life' by Beverly Halstead 1989 Running
>Press
>(2)"Archeaology of the Land of the Bible 10,000 BC - 586 BC by Amihai
>Mazar(Professor at the University of Tel-Aviv in Israel) 1992 Doubleday
>Publishing) 
>
>Also cited in part one The World Atlas of Archeaology, by GK K Hall and
>Co. (page 23)
>
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Xina
ankh shu
steve
"Times Atlas of Archaeology"
"A History of Seafaring"
"Old Testament, Book of Genesis"
"Epic of Gilgamesh"
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Subject: Re: LUCY: ``Yes, we have no bananas!"
From: fmurray@pobox,com (frank murray)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 17:36:07 GMT
On Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:04:09 +0000, Kathy McIntosh
 wrote:
>My God!  I didn't know you needed a higher degree in convoluted logic to
>read this newsgroup!
>
>Couldn't you have put the above in plain English?
i'll put it simply:
a = smallest refuter's figure
b = largest refuter's figure
c = ed's figure
b/a > c/b
frank
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Subject: Re: Sorting Out the Facts: Chronologies for the Earth's Age and True History of Mankind
From: hornowl@islandnet.com
Date: 15 Nov 1996 17:33:46 GMT
Xina  wrote:
>In response to Elijah's earlier post entitled" "Bible Chronon vs.
>Archaeology...etc etc) I will post what I believe the true chronology of
>the earth's age.  There are many who dont agree with this.  This is
>fine.  I have no emotional attachment to being right or wrong on this. 
>If I am wrong, I will bow to the superior knowlege of anyone who can
>adequately show through citation of archaeological or geological *FACT*
>that I have erred.  At the end of this post I shall (*again!*) post my
>sources.  
>
>I have no concrete date that I can cite with certainty about the earth's
>true age.  I will therefore post in chronological order the first life
>to modern humans and ... [big snip] ...
Your chronology seems to be in agreement with what I have studied over the last 
decade or so.  Recalling my days as an astrophysicist, I would just like to add an 
estimate on the age of Earth itself.  Current research indicates an age for the Sun 
of about 5 billion years, plus or minus a few 100 million years.  While planet 
formation is a far less certain field, it is likely than no matter what the process 
was, it occured "soon" (relatively speaking, of course) after the Sun's formation.  
Thus, Earth is probably 4 to 4.5 billion years old.
I hope that this helps a bit.
- Rob 
-- 
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Horned Owl Publishing 
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Subject: Re: Shang script among Olmecs
From: pmv100@psu.edu (Peter van Rossum)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 18:00:49 GMT
In article <56gn91$ncl@beetle.privatei.com> bartjean@henge.com (Bart Torbert/Jean Dupree) writes:
>In article <01bbd0ed$09fca740$b494d9ce@tekdiver>, tekdiver@ix.netcom.com 
>says...
>>Yes, Yuri.  David is a Master of Shang script as well.  Why don't you 
>>email him up at Harvard?  He shares space with an interesting fellow named 
>>Ian Graham.  I don't know if you've heard of either David or Ian.  My guess 
>>is you probably haven't since you posed the rather uninformed question 
>>below. The fact that you did pose the question strongly suggests that you 
>>ought to do more reading before you do all of the writing you have done.  
>>There's an old proverb about  remaining silent and keeping people unsure 
>>of your ignorance as opposed to broadcasting it to the world as you seem 
>>intent on doing.
[deletions]
>>Paul Pettennude, Ph.D.
>>Maya Underwater Research Center
>
>Watch it Yuri! This guy is dangerous!  He is packing a !!!!PH.D!!!!.  He 
>might get angry at you and get a couple of his !!!EXPERT!!! friends to 
>throw !!!BIG WORDS!!! at your.  OOOOH THAT WOULD HURT!
Better yet he might just throw out gobs of facts backed up by extensive
field research which seems to document that the cultures of Mesoamerica
developed without any significant outside impacts.
>I am sure that Dr. Pettennude is just trying to be oh-so politically 
>correct.  
I think Dr. Pettennude is simply trying to be FACTUALLY CORRECT.  Other
posts by Dr. Pettennude indicate to me that he is willing to consider
the *possibility* of outside contacts but like most scientists he would
like to see such possibilities backed up by verifiable, objective data.
>It is not nice to suggest that the Indians would need outside 
>consultants to create the high cultures of MesoAmerica (I guess as 
>compared to the low cultures the rest of them muddled along with, the poor 
>dears).
Are you aware of the fact that there are legends from North American "low 
cultures" (whatever the hell that means) of strange contacts as well.  So 
how come these "consultants" were only able to bring "high cultures" to 
the people of Mesoamerica, and portions of South America?
>I know when an academician wants advice on a matter he turns to other 
>academicans.  After all who else could be an "Expert" on the matter.  In 
>this case maybe all these whiz-kids should do something real radical like 
>ask the Indians themselves what they think about the whole mess and 
>whether their dignity needs protection from a bunch of white guys running 
>around in long dresses and funny hats(that is academic robes to all you 
>plebes).  I have asked such questions and the answers have been most 
>surprising.
What the hell do you think we do while we're working out in the middle
of frigging nowhere?  We discuss things with the local populace.  Most
archaeologists are very interested in the views and opinions of people
from other cultures (we are after all trying to understand the lifeways
of people from very different cultures than our own).  Why don't you
take some time to contact some archaeologists, I think you'll find that
they are a very mixed lot with a wide range of opinions on virtually 
any topic.  One of the few topics where there is widespread (although
not unanimous) agreement is that there is no good evidence of extensive
Old/New World contacts prior to the 16th century.
>I was privilaged to attend of gathering of Indian elders last year where 
>the whole topic of Diffusionism was under discussion.  The Indians in 
>attendence just about covered all the types there could be.  There were 
>folks with Ph.D.'s in history and anthropology (doesn't that make them 
>some sort of "Expert" in whose presense us mere mortals are to quake in 
>our boots-- I guess all experts are not created equal), traditional tribal 
>religious leaders, and some of the scarier names in AIM.  None of them had 
>any problems with the idea that non-Indians got here long before Columbus 
>and had profound influence upon their ancestors.
>
>They don't have a problem because their own tribal lore contains many 
>tales of these early visitors.  They know that somewhere under all the 
>moralizing and entertainment frills of oral traditions, there are some 
>gems of historical fact.  They seemed to appreciate the fact that some 
>folks were starting to get at the same historical events from another 
>angle and providing new perspectives to the matter.
>
>So maybe the academics need to refer to "Experts" before making any sort 
>of comments themselves.
>Bart Torbert
>bartjean@privatei.com
If they can show verifiable, objective evidence of Precolumbian contacts
then archaeologists will be willing to accept the idea that such contacts
occurred.  Why do you think there is now unanimous agreement that there
was a brief contact between Vikings and Indigenous groups in Newfoundland?
What archaeologists need, however, are solid artifacts - not legends which
can be interpreted in many ways and often contain elements that have no
basis in fact.
Instead of just slagging insults and innuendo, perhaps you would care to 
enlighten us as to some of the evidence which documents such contacts.
Peter van Rossum
PMV100@PSU.EDU
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Subject: Re: LUCY: ``Yes, we have no bananas!"
From: Kathy McIntosh
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:04:09 +0000
In article <3289792b.3697880@netnews.worldnet.att.net>, fmurray@pobox
writes
>what i find interesting here is that the ratio of the largest
>refuter's figure to the smallest refuter's figure is larger than the
>ratio of ed's figure to the largest refuter's figure...this becomes
>true if we take socrates "few hundred yards" to mean a figure above
>approx. 132 feet...as we use a larger value for socrate's "few hundred
>yards" (his phrase justifies using a larger value), the ratio between
>the largest of the refuter's figure and the smallest of the refuter's
>figures becomes a multiple of the ratio between ed's figure and the
>largest of the refuter's figures....
>
>perhaps something might be wrong with the refuter's figures??...
>
>frank
My God!  I didn't know you needed a higher degree in convoluted logic to
read this newsgroup!
Couldn't you have put the above in plain English?
-- 
Kathy McIntosh
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."  
Robert Byrne.
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Subject: Re: FOSSIL human skull, old as coals carbon-14 biblical Flood (Ramses vs. Moses)
From: jack@purr.demon.co.uk (Jack Campin)
Date: 15 Nov 1996 19:06:33 GMT
Eliyehowah  writes:
> This is a reply. I have not chosen the header newsgroups this thread is
> found in.
Yes you have, fuckwit.  You can't weasel out of your responsibility by
saying "the other guy started it".
> I have added alt.religion.christian to share with them
I'm sure that group's readers are all *really* grateful.  I don't think.
Now edit your goddamn headers before continuing this discussion.
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Subject: Re: Shang script among Olmecs
From: pmv100@psu.edu (Peter van Rossum)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 17:32:47 GMT
In article <56i0vo$15n@news1.io.org> yuku@io.org (Yuri Kuchinsky) writes:
>Paul E. Pettennude (tekdiver@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
>: Yes, Yuri.  David is a Master of Shang script as well. 
>
>So is Prof. Chen. He's the _leading_ Chinese scholar of the Shang script. 
>
>Yuri.
And as was pointed out in your earlier posts, Dr. Chen is not any kind
of expert in Mesoamerican archaeology or writing systems.  In contrast
Dr. Stuart is apparently well versed in Shang writing, Mesoamerican
writing systems, and Mesoamerican archaeology in general - as far as
I'm aware he has never mentioned any direct connection between the
two cultures. Is it really so surprising to you that there might be 
symbols in different writing systems that look somewhat similar to each 
other?  Why do you think others have claimed Olmec writing in derived
from Manding scripts of Africa?
If Dr. Chen really believes Olmec writing is derived from Shang scripts 
then he should continue his investigation and document its evolution 
into the Epi-Olmec Mixe-Zoquean related inscriptions found at Gulf 
Coast sites.  Until such time, he's going out on a big limb to claim
definitive "proof" based on questionable readings of very short 
inscriptions.
Peter van Rossum
PMV100@PSU.EDU
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Subject: Re: Bible Chronology vs. Archeology History, Intro (was: Part 1b)
From: Marc Line
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 13:17:40 +0000
On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, at 14:08:53, Eliyehowah cajoled electrons into the
single most convincing argument I have yet seen against the policy
document entitled "Care In The Community."
Marc
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Subject: Re: Bible Chronology vs. Archeology History, Intro (was: Part 1b)
From: chiksika@tir.com (chiksika)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 19:23:29 GMT
Xina  wrote:
>There was no "Flood" of the bible. There is NO archeological,
>geological, or biostratographic evidence.  Next....
 While I have no intention of involving myself in this "debate" and
admire your dueling with a closed mind who seems to think they have a
direct channel to god him/herself,many cultures have a flood
myth/story. Chinese,Sumerian,Chaldean,Mayan,Norse, and Native American
cultures all have flood sories that have been handed down.My native
tribe(Shawnee) has a flood story. Now I don't intend to sit here and
call this absolute "proof",however my personal studies have shown IN
MOST CASES there is at least a certain amount of truth in this type of
data. At the end of the last ice age there was a tremendous amount of
water which was either directly melted into the various bodies of
water or through evaporation found it's way into the atmosphere. I
find the POSSIBILITY of a flood type event highly probable.Also keep
in mind that while biblically the involvment was
world-wide,potentially the involvement coukld have been limited to the
worlds various coastal plains and low lying areas! At the time little
was truly known as to what the world even was;) I Do agree with you
wholeheartedly though on the various dates and ages;o)
Thanks for my interruption
Gerry b
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Subject: Bible Chron scale versus Earth Chron, Intro2 (reply to SORTING)
From: Eliyehowah
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 11:42:14 +0000
Xina wrote: 
> In response to Elijah's earlier post entitled" "Bible Chronon vs.
> Archaeology...etc etc) I will post what I believe the true chronology of
> the earth's age.  There are many who dont agree with this.  This is
> fine.  I have no emotional attachment to being right or wrong on this.
> If I am wrong, I will bow to the superior knowlege of anyone who can
> adequately show through citation of archaeological or geological *FACT*
> that I have erred.  At the end of this post I shall (*again!*) post my
> sources.
I accept God's nature as my sources. This means I bow or humble myself
to any scholar who presents physical data requiring me to find an answer
to any contradictions. I do not bow to mere hypothesis, nor to popular view,
nor to famed authors or scholars. Data MUST be from God (meaning physical).
Such data is dendrochron and C-14 etc. Yes, I humbly agree they must be
explained as to why their results. And I will admit the fields I have yet to
know. If you wish to feel this makes me inadequate to represent my God that
is your choice, but I will still present the case rather than sit back and watch.
> I have no concrete date that I can cite with certainty about the earth's
> true age.  I will therefore post in chronological order the first life
> to modern man and then in a later post we can go through whether or not
> there are dates that correspond with the bible, or not.  All information
> posted is the opinion and research of the author, no claims to its
> spritiual or scientific absoluteness is implied outside of what is now
> available to us through scientific research.
I accept the generally published 4 billion years.
As for life, I cannot enter the argument until land rises in the 3rd day
as 32,005 - 25,005 BC unless you wish to argue the need for light
in ocean life prior to 46,005 BC. Point is that the division line is
made by these 14,000 years from darkness upon the ocean to
land for animals who must stay above water. Anything before
32,005 BC is a learning procedure for me of which I am able to accept
one-cell life as billions of years old. Since man is not about to die
from all bacteria being wiped out, I think our conversation should
be one that directly reflects HUMAN history, humans not evolving states
which are claimed. Adam is 4025 BC, Abel died after their sin in
3955 BC as the earliest possible C-14 hypotheitical subject available.
http://www.execpc.com/~elijah/histry/7daycreation.GIF
(this is not a reference, it is my presentation)
> 1)  bacteria - 3.8 billion years
> 2)  Blue Green Algae or Cyanobacteria - 2.9 billion years
> 3)  Eukaryotes( first plant and animal cells with nucleus) - 1.45
> billion years
> 4)  Multicelled animals - 680 million years
> 5)  Fish  - 530 Million years
> 6)  Land Plants - 400 million years              32,005 - 25,005 BC
> 7)  Amphibians - 370 million years
> 8)  Reptiles - 340 Million years
> 9)  Mammals - 200 Million years
> 10) Dinosaurs 200 million years
> 11) Birds - 175 Million Years
> 12) Austrolpithencus Africanus - 4.5 million years
> 13) Australopithecs rubustus - 4 million years
> 14) Homo Habilus - 3.5 million years
> 15) Homo Erectus - 2 million years
> 16) Homo Sapiens Neanderthalenesis - 200,000 years
> 17) Homo Sapiens Sapiens - 30,000 years  (See source #1)
> This puts us right up to the Upper Paleolithic Age, which went from
> 30,000 BC to 10,000 BC.  From there we can go to our second source
> (2)"Archeaology of the Land of the Bible 10,000 BC - 586 BC by Amihai
> Mazar(Professor at the University of Tel-Aviv in Israel) 1992 Doubleday
> Publishing)  We are now into the Neoltihtic age.
I regard all C-14 readings from 20,000 BC to be postFlood 2370 BC.
I do believe that preFlood wood can be used by postFlood man.
Such wood would date as older than 20,000 BC. Yes, archeology does
collect the smallest little things and claims they were made by humans.
Abel's death after 3955 BC would date by our C-14 labs as 20,000 more
years or thus as 21,855 BC. Thus preFlood humans of 3955-2370 BC
date by C-14 as 21,855-20,000 BC. The C-14 limits of 50,000-70,000
are thus reduced to being 30,000-50,000. Radiologists are very cautious
to go beyond the lower figure of 50,000 (biblical 30,000).
(reference for the 50,000 and 70,000 upon request)
Note that the 30,000 falls within the creative day earth rose from the sea.
Below these poterries are dated by C-14 and thus in my view are all
post Flood as after 2370 BC, and being dated as post 10,000 BC ice age
also means they are viewed by me as post Ice Age 2320 BC.
It is to be noted that these ages were laid out 100 years ago when many
scholars were still bibically influenced. The preFlood city of Badgurgurru
from the Weld Prism means City of Bronze workers about 3160 BC.
(one of my two sources for bronze translation = Halley Handbook p.70)
http://www.execpc.com/~elijah/histry/preFludkngs2.GIF
Thus the idea of bronze as 3000 BC was established during the days
when compromise existed between scholars so as to avoid the
Darwin versus creationists of the 1800s.
> Pre-Pottery Neolithic A         ca. 8500 - 7500 BCE
> Pre Pottery Neolithic B         ca. 7500 - 6000 BCE
> Pottery Neolithic A             ca. 6000 - 5000 BCE
> Pottery Neolithic B             ca. 5000 - 4300 BCE
> Chalcolithic                    ca. 4300 - 3300 BCE
> Early Bronze                    ca. 3300 - 3050 BCE
> Early Bronze II -III            ca. 3050 - 2300 BCE*
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> Early Bronze IV/Middle Bronze I ca. 2300 - 2000 BCE*
> Middle Bronze IIA               ca. 2000 - 1800/1750 BCE
> Middle Bronze IIB-C             ca. 1800/1750 - 1550 BCE
> Late Bronze I                   ca. 1500 - 1400 BCE
> Late Bronze II A-B              ca. 1400 - 1200 BCE
> Iron IA                         ca. 1200 - 1150 BCE
> Iron IB                         ca. 1150 - 1000 BCE
> Iron IIA                        ca. 1000 -  925 BCE
> Iron IIB                        ca. 925 - 720 BCE
> Iron IIC                        ca. 720- 586 BCE
> * Elijah's alleged date for the biblical flood.
> Essentially the Pyramids were built within the period around the Early
> Bronze Age, if the flood occured there would be an interuption of this
> age into the next one, in fact there would be noticable setback in
> pottery and in building etc.
The bronze age existed equally after the Flood as before. This however
permitted scholars to take the postFlood pyramid age of bronze and place
it during the preFlood bronze age. The Septuagint Genesis placing Flood
at 3090 BC, and the Egyptian Papyrus canon (Turin) likewise making 3090 BC
its epoch permitted postFlood pyramid to be the same bronze age. My story
is one in which I claim as Moses that all languages have confused the
order of events by justifying their claims thru semantics.
> I will post a pharonic chronology later this week. 
I will too. Chicago Oriental Institute's Richard Parker's from the Americana.
> My questions are:
> If Adam was the 'first man' (or was he the first white man as some here
> have proposed) then we can actually date him to over 10,000 years ago.
Correct. I feel he is incorrectly dated as over 10,000 years due to C-14
of 2320 BC giving a false age of 10,000 years. Adam's death being in
3096 BC would thus give a false reading of 20,725 BC if his body were
preserved. I have just noted an interesting aliginment. Being his true
death is 5 years before the 3090 BC Egyptian epoch, note that adamah
means MAN and thus Adam's deathyear could have easily been translated
by Egyptians as that of all MAN dying in the creation epoch (the flood),
or that of Noah's father who did die 5 years before the Flood.
> If the biblical flood was an actuality, *why* was there no break in the
> architecture, art and culture of any civilization in the areas of africa
> and Europe at that time?
TIMELINE.....architecture is NOT the years currently assigned.
The first discovers of pyramid astronomy dated the main shaft by Thuban
as 2170 BC and 2160 BC and realized that the alternative was 700 years
in the other direction.
3500 BC as 700 yrs before 2800 BC
versus
2100 BC as 700 yrs after 2800 BC. This created the two opposing views
with evolution choosing the distant 3500 BC and faithful men of God
choosing the 2170 or 2160 BC.
(source Tomkins Secret of GP, also Smyth, and third source upon request...
this third source ..about astronomy..claimed the pyramid must be
3500 BC and 2100 BC as too young. The current pyramid is placed
according to Richard Parker's KuFu stretching from 3110 BC as the epoch
of which the Americana says that 20 years are thrown in for the 9&10th dynasties
now regarded as contemproary to 11th.)
> I will need to see how you explain away several billion years of
> pre-history.
> SOURCE LIST:
> (1) 'Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life' by Beverly Halstead 1989 Running
> Press
> (2)"Archeaology of the Land of the Bible 10,000 BC - 586 BC by Amihai
> Mazar(Professor at the University of Tel-Aviv in Israel) 1992 Doubleday
> Publishing)
> Also cited in part one The World Atlas of Archeaology, by GK K Hall and
> Co. (page 23)
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