Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 17/04/2006 15:35, Steve Miller wrote:
> > > Mankind and
> > > the present living land animals, however, are 6,000 years old.
> > >
> > >       
> > I am not sure whether your last sentence is intended to be a statement
> > of fact or only of what "Gap theory" claims, but there is ample
> > archaeological and geological evidence that this is factually incorrect.
> >
> >     
> I know of know of no facts that mankind is > 6K years old. 
>   

Vast amounts of human bones, as well as tools, art etc etc, radiocarbon, 
stratigraphically and climatologically dated to tens of thousands of 
years old? Yes, I accept that radiocarbon dating is not always reliable, 
nor are stratigraphy and palaeo-climatology. But do you know enough 
about these disciplines to judge whether the results they give can be 
trusted or not? I don't claim that I do, but I do trust those who 
present the evidence.

I had better not go into this in any more detail in this forum. But 
presuppositions about such matters can skew our interpretations of Hebrew.

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