Posted on 01/26/2018 12:56:22 AM PST by Pharmboy
It seems the entire peripatetic history of humanity boils down to getting away from crappy neighbors.
Very insightful. And if you indeed live up to your handle, some prolly moved to get away from you!
I was going to post this story from the Times but one post from the Times a day is enough. Still, it's a good story. They are quite excellent on this kind of stuff.
This paragraph from the Times piece differs from the BBC piece, which talks about migrations and an exodus:
“We are now realizing that it was not one big exodus out of Africa in a given time period,” said Dr. Hershkovitz. “Rather, there was a flow of hominins coming in and out of Africa for at least the last half a million years.”
This sounds more likely to me. Following on Everything takes longer than we think, is Nothing is as dramatic as we imagine it but is more like everyday life.
The fossil record is from the flood, not from millions of years of life. Where are all the human bodies? Interestingly how they never seem to find them.
If you say you believe in God, yet you disbelieve the Bible, you are an unbeliever, because you claim God cannot do as the Words says he did.
You see bitterness in my comment? Wow, talk about reading into something that was nit there.
Your remark on mine is what is bitter,
Mine is but an observation of what I see as the truth.
“If you say you believe in God, yet you disbelieve the Bible”
If you’re going to insist on that sort of literalism, then we can’t discuss this.
“you are an unbeliever, because you claim God cannot do as the Words says he did.”
That’s not correct. There are places in which the Bible is history, and places in which it uses allegory to communicate theological truth.
God is not bound by time. He could create the universe instantaneously or take a billion years; it’s all the same to Him.
God always talks to us in concepts we can understand. 5,000 years ago the tribes were pretty primitive. God spoke to them in the terms that were appropriate to them. That needs to be kept in mind.
But if you’re a literalist, you won’t want to think about concepts like an instant and a billion years being equivalent to God.
So they were leaving sh__ho_e Countries before Trump said it?
Literalists tend to want to create God in their image.
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