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Archaeology 101

Archaeology... I am doing it. My Ar-chae-o-lo-gy. And the love I feel when I'm doing it is very sweet to me.

Utah Jones: LOL
How could there be an ice age 10,000 years ago when the earth is precisely 6,000 years old?

How can that be. The world is only 6000 years old.

You guys beat me to it. The bible says the earth is 6000 years old and the bible says that every word of the bible is true and so it is.

The age of the earth is eternal. That is the "elements are eternal" D&C 93:33.

Please tell me you are being sarcastic.

The bible does NOT say the earth was 6000 years old.

biblical histroy starts 6000 year ago with adam and eve being kicked out of the garden of eden.

How long the actually creation process took and how long adam and eve were in the garden of eden is unknown.

The interpretation of "day" used in the bible and really almost any time mentioned ( such as 40 days and nights) in the bible are not literal interperetions.

The interptations that should have been if it was translated correctly are just words to connote a passage of time or a markation of time.

The actually lengths are unknown.

Although we know such as in the case of 40 days and 40 nights, that it wasn't a long time but perhaps anywhere from a couple weeks to few months.

Or moses and his people wandering for 40 years, that is was a lengthy time of many years.

(40 is used a lot for some reason and is probably a bad interpretion of some word used in the original texts).

The Earth is much more then 6000 years old. Nor was it created in 7, 24 hour time periods. That has been proven time and again. The Earth is Millions of years old and has undergone huge but slow changes. If it had not we would be able to find "the narrow neck of land" The Earth is still forming, come to The Big Island and see for yourself. What is fact is that man in his present form may be 6000 years old. The Space Ship Sank in the Water Somewhere. Also the order of creation of the World is correct.

Hubble showed us some pictures of 2 Galaxy�s Colliding very messy, very violent. Some higher life forms might have been able to escape that situation, perhaps several forms of life. Some might come here to settle.

To Ronald:

That's alot of assumptions, but evoloution was never very scientific in thought, deed, or language.

If you believe in God or not. Or advanced beings or not.

If there is a God we know he not from this world which would make him an advanced being from somewhere else (extraterrestial).

If he is the god of the bible, then we know he capable of terraforming worlds and stars moons, etc.

How would you tell whether this world had been terraformed or not?

And what was already in the matter it was terraformed from?

The point is, science and us in general know very little about this world.

We can find old bones, old artifacts old formations and surmise about them but it doesn't make it true.

If we had technolgy as these so called advance beings how long could take us to make mountains, or make them flat again, or make a world?

We don't know, it is beyond our knowledge.

But whether you believe in the evolution stories even though they are based wholly on assumptions,

Or whether you believe in the bible which has NOT been proven false,

The possibilities are certainly interesting.

Archaelogy can only show the possiblities not what the absolute truth is.

It can only make a best guess. Infer things from what if finds and make assumptions from those inferrals.

IT is only assumed the world is so old, only because it is assumed it takes a certain period time for things to happen.

But what if those assumptions are wrong?

What if all those assumptions evolution is based on are wrong?

What if is is possible to make things happen faster?

Science should be about opening doors of inquiries and possiblities, not shutting them down because they don't like someone elses answers.

What if the assumptions that faith is based on...are wrong?

Archaeology can only show what is still present to see. The earth is millions of years older that what the bible says. I can't believe anyone actually believes the stories of the bible to be actual truth. They were teaching stories and interpertations of men. As has been found man is much older than was previousily thought and I believe there will be more found and still that will only tell us as far as is the life of materials and bones when preserved in the earth. Who knows what is so old that it is undetectable. I think we will never really know how far human life goes back on this planet.