The dates that I was siting for the Noahachian flood were calculated as TB mentioned
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Originally posted by Tranquility Base:
[b]^ Most flood geologists take the flood date to be about 2500 BC via the Biblical genealogies. Of thetop of my head, everyone agrees that Moses was 1450 BC +-100y and Abraham 1950 BC +-150y and the genealogies connect Noah to Abraham via about 5 or 6 generations. So it's very easy to dat the flood scriptually.
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Unfortunately there is no physical evidence to back those dates up, and much to dispute them.
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From my readings the well established consensus oldest civilisations on this planet are peoples more like the Sumerians and they archeaologically date to about the time of the flood. The other stuff like the Chinese etc is less certain.[/b]
I have read much the same with one MASSIVE exception, that would be the dates of these civilizations. The best data indicates that civilization started about 10,000 years ago in near near the Tigres and Euphradies rivers in the river basin. Civilization, namely more organized farming communities, started in the Nile valley about the same time. The Indian civilizations in the delta which may have occured at the same time or maybe even before but these are a little more controversial due to poor preservation of sites. The following are meant as guide posts to more information in this field.
http://s2a3.up.ac.za/resources/article01.htmlhttp://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/aha/staff/staflist.htm
As to my China references, they were only meant as a guide to further research. The site on the chinese medicine was to let you know that documentation exists that reaches back to the discussed dates, you did not think that the new-age alternative treatment people translated the documents did you? Unfortunately neither the people who actually do real chinese herbal medicine nor the people who do chinese archaeology are not much into web sites. There is a very large field of archeaology that deals with China. China is unique as it has had a continuous civilization for several thousand years, dates based on archaeology of course, and many of the early writings or copies of them survive. A comparison of the writings by experts in chinese archaeology and data from NASA confirms the writings as being at the times mentioned as indicated in my earlier post.
One aside, if I were from NASA I would have been extremely insulted by the implication that I would not seek out an expert outside of "my" field to obtain the best translations available for the mentioned chinese texts to use with correlation with calculated orbital mechanics. Having roomed with people from NASA while in grad school I can attest to their professional behaviour.
Back the the flood. The recently found city of Ur in the near to middle east predates 2500 as well and appears to have been a trade center between near and far east (Data was posted in the journal Science in 2001/2, I will try to find the exact reference later). I guess that this is enough for now.
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