Posted on 09/15/2011 7:42:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
The first Neanderthal to eat a raw oyster must have been very brave, starving or horny.
S Africa, shell jewelry 75K ago:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1118872/posts
blam’s post, Homo Florienensis made shell necklaces 82K ago:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1418969/posts?page=18#18
rejoinder, shell jewelry in N Africa, 82K ago:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1844620/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1855689/posts
Apparently they hadn’t got the memo, Israel 90K to 100K ago:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1654022/posts
Oops, make that 100K to 135K ago
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1663929/posts
If he wasn’t horny before, he would have been after.
Not scallops, real ones, that is...........
Well that settles it.
Neaderthals were not Jewish.
You left out the garlic and white wine reduction sauce. :-))
Rocks are dated using:
Fossils are dated:
Of course, some of these methods are "derivative" of others, and each has associated difficulties.
But the "gold standard" is radiometric dating, and when several different materials agree, then that's as good as it gets.
which doesn't happen as often as you imply.
What happens is that 3-4 methods are used, the results are wildly different, and so the person tests it asks "what fossils do you see in the layers above and below this sample?", and the "indexing fossils" are used to determine which of the radiometric tests to use.
You meant to say: What has been reported, on occasion, is that..."
Sure, no method is fool-proof, all are subject to errors depending on circumstances.
When several methods -- including indexing fossils -- can be used to produce similar results, then the data is more reliable.
This is especially true when the ages of those "indexing fossils" were confirmed by several different radio-metric methods.
But those who use all this to argue that therefore the Earth is only 6,000 years old, are in no sense being scientific.
“But those who use all this to argue that therefore the Earth is only 6,000 years old, are ...”
...being silly. God is not bound by time. Whatever methods he used to bring all this about could take as much or as little time as He pleased.
After you get past the fact that God created the heavens and the Earth, all that is seen and unseen, what does it matter whether He did it in the twinkling of an eye or billions of years?
When you say that God created Adam from dirt, are you really excluding the possibility that He used a method that is in complete congruence with what science has discovered about the origins of the universe and our planet?
I’ve been toying with a spectulation—and that’s all it is, just idle speculation—that when God breathed life into Adam, that is, when He ensouled humanity, it might have been just after the big die-off after Toba.
Maybe the dieback served to eliminate some genes He didn’t want in homo sap.
Again, just idle speculation for the purpose of amusing myself.
Neanderthal cavemen supped on shellfish on the Costa del Sol 150,000 years ago...
It’s amazing to think that Ketsup and Horseradish
have been around that long.
and lemon juice.....
I agree with you, but apparently a good many FRiends here don't agree with us, and for reasons that -- even after many lengthy discussions -- are not obvious to me.
What's blindingly obvious is that everywhere you look scientifically, God left us with abundant clues about what He did and how He did it.
It remains only to ask "why", and for that, of course, nature and science have no answers.
For that, you must turn to the Bible, and to a church or other institution expressly intended to answer such questions.
;-)
“for reasons that — even after many lengthy discussions — are not obvious to me.”
In some cases, I think it’s because a belief in the literal, historical truth of the Bible requires it.
Gott sei dank, my mother taught me the meaning of the words “parable” and “allegory” at a young age.
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