Bible Proofs Part 3: Sodom Discovered By Archaeologists!

Dr. Bergsma tells the story of meeting the men who discovered the historical city of Sodom!

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How Old is The Human Race?

National Geographic's take on humans

I've got to say, science truly favors it's own spin.

Origin: Africa - When: > 100,000 years ago - Who: Adam
"The common direct paternal ancestor of all men alive today was born in Africa between 300,000 and 150,000 years ago.Dubbed "Y-chromosome Adam" by the popular press, he was neither the first human male nor the only man alive in this time. He was, though, the only male whose Y-chromosome lineage is still around today. All men, including your direct paternal ancestors, trace their ancestry to one of this man's descendants. The oldest Y-chromosome lineages in existence, belonging to the AOO branch of the tree, are found inly in African populations.
Around 100,000 years ago the mutation named P305 occurred in the Y-chromosome of a man in Africa. This is one of the oldest known mutations that is not shared by all men. Therefore, it marks one of thee early splits in the human Y-chromosome tree, which itself marks one of the earliest branching points in modern human evolution. The man who first carried this mutation lived in Africa and is the ancestor to more than 99.9% of paternal lineages today. In fact, men who do not carry this mutation are so rare that its importance in human history was discovered only in the past two years." _ National Geographic.

So, we are mutants of the remaining possible 0.1% of the original beings.
Yeah, my foot!
How about the 0.1% are non-humans?
That would make more sense, and it would match the Bible.

Over 100,000 years ago?
Please, the Adam of Creation is only 6,022 years old.
Yes, 'scientists' claim it is billions of years old. Statement in which they have no proof whatsoever. Their carbon dating was never compared to real known facts, as of yet.

Sorry science, I'll go with the Bible or Tanakh (with a twist of Book of Enoch), for my verified world history.

Note: Enoch was mentioned in the Bible and Tanakh. "Enoch walked with God"
Many statements in the Bible, by prophets and Jesus are from Enoch or the Book of Enoch.

Archeological Dating

There are two main categories of dating methods in archaeology: indirect or relative dating and absolute dating.

Relative dating includes methods that rely on the analysis of ‘comparative data’ or the context (eg, geological, regional, cultural) in which the object one wishes to date is found. This approach helps to order events chronologically but it does not provide the absolute age of an object expressed in years. Relative dating includes different techniques, but the most commonly used are soil stratigraphy analysis and typology.

On the other hand, absolute dating includes all methods that provide figures about the real ‘estimated’ age of archaeological objects or occupations. These methods usually analyze ‘physicochemical transformation phenomena whose rate are known’ or can be estimated relatively well. This is the only type of techniques that can help clarifying the actual age of an object. Absolute dating methods mainly include radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology and thermoluminescence.

Criticizing Dating methods

‘physicochemical transformation phenomena whose rate are known’?

What kind of known is an assumption? How can we know that a transformation that occurred in the last millennium is equivalent to tens of thousands of years prior to these known few centuries of records, when we know full well that today’s world is a lot less violent and changing than the one we assume existed?

The scientific method does not support assumptions of assumptions to be facts.

Assumption: accepting something as fact without proof.

Scientific method necessitate to formulate an Hypothesis, to test it (multiple times), in order to formulate basis for a new theory.  When the testing results are negative, then the hypothesis must either be rejected or modified.  And, at all times of course the data should be gathered and recorded.

An assumption is NOT science, it’s scientism. Assumptions have led to many errors in mostly recent theories. Assumptions have caused harm to people. Assumptions are risk taking.

It has been proven that thousands of years ago the World was brutal and went through abrupt changes, so how can we make assumptions that what we observe today (in a relatively calm world), can be of similar significance in a long gone past?

There are countless theories about the cataclysmic abrupt changes that occurred in the past.  Yet, must we absolutely reject the possibility of miles of water (the Flood), draining, washing and smashing tectonic plates to smithereens?  Ever seen the power of water? Humans wrote books, and recorded things thousands of years ago, and we must disregard it?

One of the oldest manuscript was written by a man named Enoch. Countless legends have been written or engraved, and yet we assume they were ancient times Sci-Fi? How about assuming that there may be some truth to what had been recorded?

What should also be mentioned is that any scientist that does not follow accepted science (the political part of it), they will loose their jobs.

Why is it becoming more difficult to equate Science and Technological Breakthroughs?

I’ll tell you why. Science has too many times been proven wrong. Science has too many times made assumptions that had negative outcomes.

And this is why many are becoming Science Skeptics.  Yet, all of us benefit from proven and useable Technological advances.

Technology has been tested over and over, used over and over. Yes, sometimes there are flaws, and those flaws often are remedied and fixed. We can trust Technology. A whole lot less can be said about science.

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Advanced Ancient Civilizations

Most of the recorded History of the World was written post 2300 B.C., unless we look at what was engraved on tablets or ancient constructions.
Two of the most regarded and recognized scripts used as records for the Ancient World are the Cuneiform and Glyphs or Hieroglyphs. It is very difficult to date such carvings whereas on tablets of constructions.

Naxca Lines Peru Aerial view

Craft Space or Air?

One could add the engraved images found in 'pre-historical' caves, or the ancient monuments that are still a mystery to us. A few examples would be: Stonehenge; Easter Island; Nazca lines of Peru; and many more... 

Ancient civilizations left us some truly remarkable monuments and artifacts. Some of them are unexplainable due to the degree of technological advances necessary to build them. Some, even to this day would be very difficult to build with our technology. The question is: Who built them? 

Ancient Screw

We assume that the World has only made technological advances, and never regressed. But is this really so impossible that the only answer we have is:
Aliens built them. 
If Aliens built them why are they not present on our World today? When advanced nations colonized primitive natives' lands, did they leave and never returned? The logic to assume such idiocy is simply nonsense.

Non documented History

Traces of not recorded history abound, just as much as disregarded recorded history.

Sunken city off coast of Cuba

Throughout the ages we have proofs of natural disasters that occurred along historical time lines: Earth Quakes; Volcanic Eruptions; Floods; Tectonic Plate shifts; Fires and dramatic Destructions; Ice ages...

Examples of disregarded history:

Mythology (we call it as such, but the people then probably did not call it that). It is however a very convenient name for us because we can't explain it.

Biblical Records and other scriptures, even though they seem to explain many things, they are an inconvenient reality, that the modern world has come to dismiss for ease of direction.

Mythology speaks of super humans or Gods, powerful creatures and giants.

The Bible speaks of humans living centuries, almost a thousand year in sone cases. It also writes about Giants and super strength (Samson). It also records a man building a huge boat 510 feet long in his back yard with his three sons (it took him a few hundred years to do so, and he must have been a master carpenter with great tools).

Could Mythology and Bible records speak of similar things?

If indeed such Men and creatures existed, what happened?

Well, the Bible speaks of a The Great Flood where everything on Earth perished, but those in The Boat and the creatures that lived in the water. The terrestrial World as we know it is only 4365 years old. Archeology and Oceanography are in the process of many discoveries. We still don't know much of our history, and of our Home, but progress are made, and there is still so much we don't know.

What could have been the population of the Earth in those times? How many died? Did the water recede to the same level as it was? What did remain under water?

That the Waters receded to the same level is highly unlikely since there are many underwater constructions that were found in this Century. The Sea creatures have probably remained the same.

Formation off the coast of the Ryukyu Islands Japan Yonaguni Monument

To state a few mind boggling Ancient constructions and discoveries:

• Egypt (pyramids, temples, artifacts as a battery)
• Mexico and the Aztec constructions
• Peru (Machu Pichu, Lake Titicaca underwater city, Nazca Lines, Aircraft like ancient artifacts)
• Noah's ark at Mount Ararat (2 pieces)
• Easter Island
• Stonehenge
• The mounds in USA
• Underground city of Derinkuyu in Turkey
• I suspect many underwater discoveries will be made.

Archeological discoveries

We still have only brushed the surface so to say, considering that the deepest dig ever done is merely of 7.5 miles underground. The mysteries of our Earth are still buried, and we can only hope that some day we will know a whole lot more. Sure, science has many theories, and Science fiction writers, give us so much to look forward to.

We still haven't figured out why the Arctic and the Antarctic are so different. One has life, the other doesn't. Maybe some day, Governments of the World will allow men to search this still undiscovered area.

It's a Big World! Here represented with a WWII map made for Airmen.

History of the World