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dbs944 Junior Member (Idle past 3810 days) Posts: 10 Joined: |
Seems to me the pyramids pose a problem when considering the flood.
If they were built before the flood, there would be much evidence inside the structures. The great pressure of several thousand feet of water would force water through any little crack or seam, into the structure and when the flood waters receded, would remain there for many many years, if not forever, as there'd be no pressure to force the water back out. Certainly there'd be 'bathtub rings' plainly visible even today. If they were built shortly after the flood, who would have done the building? There are over a hundred pyramids throughout Egypt, each requiring thousands of man-years to complete. Even if Noah and family reproduced like bunnies, and they all moved to Egypt and worked only on building pyramids, they couldn't have gotten the job done within certainly a very many centuries. So which is it? Before the flood with no evidence that the insides were ever wet;or after the flood, when there was no labor to complete the task. Just curious as to a 'logical' answer. The Bible has to be true - no one could make all that up.
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bluegenes Member (Idle past 2476 days) Posts: 3119 From: U.K. Joined: |
dbs944 writes: If they were built shortly after the flood, who would have done the building? There are over a hundred pyramids throughout Egypt, each requiring thousands of man-years to complete. Even if Noah and family reproduced like bunnies, and they all moved to Egypt and worked only on building pyramids, they couldn't have gotten the job done within certainly a very many centuries. And to further complicate things, how could they be in Egypt when they were all here, building large stone circles? In fact, Stonehenge was built in three stages, one pre-flood, one during the flood and one after. It's a mystery, indeed.
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Larni Member (Idle past 163 days) Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined: |
The obvious answer is that there was no flood.
The flood supporting arguement is that a god (Enil, Yaweh etc) did it with magic that did not leave a trace anywhere. Edited by Larni, : Alternate ending. Story boad. Theatircal trailor. Interactive menu (how can interactive menu be an extra?)
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dbs944 Junior Member (Idle past 3810 days) Posts: 10 Joined: |
The flood supporting arguement is that a god (Enil, Yaweh etc) did it with magic that did not leave a trace anywhere. That's cheating. They like to point to all the "evidence" they conjure up to physically justify the flood and the Biblical timeline. I'd like a non-magical explanation for either no evidence of flooded pyramids or where the workforce came from for post-flood construction. Or, I would like them to fully admit that magic is the only explanation and that there is no possibility of ANY evidence proving them wrong, regardless of how compelling the evidence is.
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Coyote Member (Idle past 2105 days) Posts: 6117 Joined: |
From Wiki:
Pyramid / Pharaoh ReignDjozer -- c. 2630 - 2612 bce Sneferu -- c. 2612 - 2589 bce Sneferu -- c. 2612 - 2589 bce Sneferu -- c. 2612 - 2589 bce Khufu -- c. 2589 - 2566 bce Djedefre -- c. 2566 - 2558 bce Khafre -- c. 2558 - 2532 bce Menkaure -- c. 2532 - 2504 bce Sahure -- c. 2487 - 2477 bce Neferirkare Kakai -- c. 2477 - 2467 bce Nyuserre Ini -- c. 2416 - 2392 bce All of these pyramids were constructed prior to the most commonly ascribed date for the global flood (2350 BC/ 4350 BP). Further, the earliest construction at Stonehenge was prior to the flood and shows no flood damage. And there are a lot of other lines of evidence. For example: Mitochondrial DNA on the west coast shows continuity among Native American lineages from before the flood to modern times. Conclusion from all of this: no flood 4,350 years ago. Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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Larni Member (Idle past 163 days) Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined: |
There is no other answer the fundy can give you, I'm afraid. It will always boil down to 'magic'.
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dbs944 Junior Member (Idle past 3810 days) Posts: 10 Joined: |
There is no other answer the fundy can give you, I'm afraid. It will always boil down to 'magic'. I threw the question out hoping that a Flood believer would explain how the Flood could be taught - and believed - when there is something so fundamentally (no pun intended) wrong. And logically wrong. No hocus pocus. No mysterious DNA or geologic columns. No 'rocket surgery' involved. Good old plain common sense physical evidence. Could someone believe that a stone structure, set without morter, be watertight enough to seal thousands of feet of water depth? If not watertight, why is there no water damage inside. If they were watertight, how did they seal it? - or somehow a small family could build a hundred pyramids while doing wonderous things elsewhere in the world. Wishful thinking I suppose. The Bible has to be true - no one could make all that up.
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Larni Member (Idle past 163 days) Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined: |
The thing is that the god of the gaps is getting less and less powerful with every inch of progress we make.
The defence often is that science is infact wrong to rule out a supernatural cause. Now, you and I would perhaps scoff at such a notion but there are a great many people who still believe tha magic is real. Go figure.
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AnswersInGenitals Member (Idle past 150 days) Posts: 673 Joined: |
Why do you ignore the obvious? The pyramids simply floated. Stones were much less dense in those days and only reached their current density with the accumulated crushing weight of all our sins. Next question.
Edited by AnswersInGenitals, : Because the voices told me to.
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Larni Member (Idle past 163 days) Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined: |
Dude, how can that make sense?
Rocks don't have souls; it's not like they are shoes or boots. It has to have been magic. Anything else is just crazy talk.
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dbs944 Junior Member (Idle past 3810 days) Posts: 10 Joined: |
Why do you ignore the obvious? The pyramids simply floated. Stones were much less dense in those days and only reached their current density with the accumulated crushing weight of all our sins. Next question. Well thank you - I now understand in complete confidence. It is so plain now that you explain it. I predict a tithe in my future. you ARE the poster The Bible has to be true - no one could make all that up.
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Larni Member (Idle past 163 days) Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined: |
The thing is mate that you won't get an answer that makes any sense unless you are a fully paid up fundy and the fundy answers colapse(spell?) like a house of cards.
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bluegenes Member (Idle past 2476 days) Posts: 3119 From: U.K. Joined: |
Coyote writes: Further, the earliest construction at Stonehenge was prior to the flood and shows no flood damage. Our oldest known house/fixed residence was found last year. As befits things on a magical island, it predates creation by 3,000 years, and the flood by 5,000. There's no flood damage, either.
Magical flood immune house {ABE}I've just realised that this house would have pre-dated a real flood. The time given for the melting back of the ice caps to approximately where they are now is usually given as 8 to 9,000 years ago, so the dating of this house (easy - the residents left lots of nutshells) at 9,600 years means it was on high ground at a time when Britain was still very much joined to the mainland. The residents could have walked in a straight line to what's now Holland or Denmark. There would have been many sudden floods as sea levels rose, like when the English Channel first formed, perhaps, and what about the breaching of the straits of Gibraltar and the Bosporus? Edited by bluegenes, : Afterthought.
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Taz Member (Idle past 3291 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: |
Please point to me where it says in the bible that everyone that came after the flood were descendants of Noah. I just read the whole chapter again and I couldn't find anywhere where it says that. God told Noah and his family members to "be fruitful and multiply".
Look, God created Adam and Eve from dirt. I don't see any reason why God couldn't have created other people after the flood. Just like every history book, the bible couldn't have recorded EVERY event and EVERY person. I'm trying to see things your way, but I can't put my head that far up my ass.
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