Hi bluegenes,
bluegenes writes:
Good try. He didn't.
You are correct he did not know about Pangea.
In 1912 Alfred Wegener first presented his his theory of continental drift.
This is the first knowledge of all land mass being in one place in the past.
Yet the author of Genesis recorded that at one time all land mass was in one place at one time in the past.
How did he know that information 3500 years ago without information that was not available to mankind?
If you desire you can say "I don't know".
I simply believe he received the information from a Super Natural Being as you call Him.
If you have a different source he could have gotten the information please present it.
bluegenes writes:
Then he messes it up big time by putting modern sounding vegetation on the land before creating the sun and the stars, which should have been there for billions of years.
Now you start with the smoke and mirrors.
You said nothing about errors that you believe occured.
You said the ancients having knowledge that was not available to them without outside help.
I presented two pieces of information that the writer of Genesis wrote about that was not available to him.
I can only imagine someone 3500 years ago telling how a human began to exist. It wasn't even talked about 65 years ago.
Yet he recorded that man came from the earth as he was formed of the dust of the ground. It is a scientific fact that mankind has all the elements I presented to you which is found in the earth.
If I understand anything about the origin of life that supposidly evolved into mankind it came from sort of primortal soup.
He also recorded that the land mass was in one place in time past.
That is two pieces of information that was not available 3500 years ago.
Your so called theory is that all God's are made up in the mind of man.
If the author of Genesis did not get this information from a Super Natural Being, where did he get it from?
Let me present another piece of information for your consideration.
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
How did the author of Genesis know that there was a mother language of all languages.
The information found
Here was not available to the author of Genesis. It hasn't been around very long.
Scientific monogenesis: The Mother Tongue theory.
Theories of monogenesis do not necessarily derive from religious belief. Many modern scholars believe in a theory of monogenesis that has come to be called the Mother Tongue Theory. This theory holds that one original language spoken by a single group of Homo sapiens perhaps as early as 150 thousand years ago gave rise to all human languages spoken on the Earth today. As humans colonized various continents, this original mother tongue diverged through time to form the numerous languages spoken today. Since many scientists believe that the first fully modern humans appeared in Africa, the mother tongue theory is connected with a more general theory of human origin known as the Out of Africa theory. Currently, the theory of evolutionary monogenesis tends to be favored by a group of linguists working in the United States.
I have presented 3 pieces of evidence that according to you would falsify your theory.
But you will do here as you have done in the debate with RAZD and ignore anything I have said.
Now if you want to eliminate any of the 3 examples I have given so far all you have to do is present where the author of Genesis obtained his informatin that:
Man came from the dust of the ground.
All land mass was in one place in time past.
That all spoken languages came from one language. Remember there was many languages at the time of the writing of Genesis.
God Bless,
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