Christianity's answer to ancient prehistorical facts?

Question

What is Christianity's answer for historic human documentation dating back 5000BC; or other such occurances proven to be true such as prehistoric animals, dinosaur bones Egyptian hyroglifics///// things which blatently contradict the Garden of Eden as the proposed beginning fo the Earth?

Answer 1

Interesting question and I recommend posting it elsewhere. This is "Singles & Dating"-- not carbon dating, flourine dating or pollen dating.

Answer 2

There was existence of dinosaurs along with the garden of eden. There is nothing to contradict the beginnings of earth. While the Bible does not go into details about dinosaurs, God did create all of the animals. This does not mean that the dinosaurs couldn't have lived on other parts of the earth, the garden was only a small fraction of the earth. There are many readings out there that talk more in detail about dinosaurs and the Bible. In order to make fossils, you need to have a paste, which is where the great flood comes into play, you get water mixed with dirt, to create mud, the mud settles on the dinosaurs. With the pressure from the water, the dinosaur is embedded and becomes a fossil. You can't accomplish fossilization with a drought or a meteor!!! You need a paste and both of these just cause dust or burning up. There's a lot more detail I could give you, but this would take forever. If you do some reading or talk with a church, they could probably point you to some good books to read. If you want to email me: [e-mail], I could try and help you out some more.

Answer 3

Why do they blatantly contradict the Garden of Eden?
How do you know?
How do you know that they date back to 5000BC? Were you there when they were written...
Are you saying that you don't think there were dinosaurs?
There were dinosaurs, so why wouldn't they be in Egyptian hyrogliphics?

There were dinosaurs, and I believe they were in the Garden of Eden where God created Adam. Adam was the first man on earth, he was never a child which is really strange to think about, isn't it?
I'm not sure I understand your Question, I believe that there probably are human documetations that date back to practically the beginning of the earth. I think that's really cool. Animals... I don't know how they migrated to wherever they were, but when humans migrated after the tower of Babel incedent, they may have taken animals with them... That's not something I know, just something I figure. Either that or the animals just went where they wanted to...

Hope you get an awesome answer to this Question.
God bless!
*smile*

Answer 4

Christianity, first of all, is a faith based upon the historical events of mankind. There is no archaeological fact that controverts its historical reliability till this day.

Higher criticism had presented many facts that seemed to point towards the unreliability of the Bible, however, with recent findings, these arguments had been refuted one by one.

Of course, there are many questions that baffles our mind still, however, given the track record of the Bible's historical reliability, I think it is only fair that we engage these questions with the benefit of the doubt in mind.

First of all, the Bible does record the existence of dinosaurs. Reading the Bible carefully, you will realize that no living creature matches the descriptions of behemoth and Leviathan. However, if you grab your kid’s dinosaur book, you will notice several possible matches for each one. Unlike other cultures, the divinely inspired authors gave accurate descriptions with, upon investigation with recent findings of dinosaur remains, almost no mythical elaborations at all. Read Job 40:15-24

Secondly, Radiometric (radioactive) dating does not yield results that are as consistent as many books would have you believe. For example, Potassium-Argon and Argon-Argon dating (tests used for dating volcanic rock) rely on the assumption that no radiogenic Argon exists in the rocks when they form—an assumption that is not true. With no consistent starting point or “zero age,” the rock ages reported by the test can vary dramatically, (depending on the amount of radiogenic Argon they started with).

There is another radioactive dating method called “fission track dating,” so named because the decay of Uranium 238 creates a minor disruption in the material that scientists call a “track.” Unfortunately, it has results that differ from the other radiometric methods. For example, a rock in Nigeria dated 95 million years old with Potassium-Argon dating, and 750 million years old using Uranium-Helium dating measured only 30 million years old with fission track dating. Do you see how the scientist could control the age reported for the geologic layer by specifying the test method?

There is one documented case where a single lump of tuff (a type of porous rock) contained components which individually dated at 1.87 million years, 25 million years, and 500 million years old. Now ask yourself, if you can get such large discrepancies within a single lump, how accurately do you believe that these testing methods define the ages of layers of the earth where fossils are found?

Yes, there is a “more accurate” radioactive dating method available called “isochron dating.” You can get an overview of isochron dating by clicking on this sentence. This dating technique does have a problem, though. It is designed to measure times on the order of a billion (1,000,000,000) years or more. Therefore everything you measure with this dating technique will seem to have great age.

For example, if you wanted to measure the distance between Los Angeles and New York, you could fly a jet airplane at a constant speed and measure the time the flight takes. Knowing the speed and time, you can calculate the distance. Now, what would happen if you used the same technique to measure the length of a house you flew over on the way to New York? It would give you bad results because you could not measure the time it took to fly over the house accurately enough to get a good answer. The same is true if you use isochron dating to measure something that is only a few thousand years old.

Another problem arises when you submit a sample for testing. Because of the variations that we just mentioned, the people operating the equipment will ask you for an estimated age of the item—before they run the test. This is true of both radiometric dating (used for igneous rock) and Carbon 14 dating (used for things that were once living).

Did you notice what happened? The scientist biased the results by determining the desired result before starting. Then, they chose a method that will give them the results they expect. This is not correct scientific procedure. How would you like it if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) evaluated products only after they predicted the results?

So these "facts" that science offers has many presuppositions. It has set out to prove what it wanted to prove all along. For academics who preach an open mind, they have incredibly narrow minds isn't it?

When did the Bible say that Eden is the beginning of the Earth? Read Genesis 1. God started working on Earth when Earth already existed. So how can the beginning of the earth equate to the beginning of Eden? See, this are misconceptions about Christianity, sadly, many Christians are the perpetrators of these false beliefs due to their misunderstanding.

I'm unable to answer the part on Egyptian Hieroglyphics because I do not see why it contradicts the Bible. Care to elaborate more on this, so that I may look for the answer? However, many expert linguists can prove that the world's languages can be traced to one source, pointing to the evidence that once upon a time, all humans had the same language. This sheds light upon the possible reliability of the Tower of Babel story in the Book of Genesis.

Proving the Bible reliable is not easy and certainly cannot be based on only a few points. Rather it is the cumulative evidence spread over a spectrum of subjects and cross-examinations that it is able to survive in it's earliest form even after so many years.

Answer 5

YOU ARE ASKING A QUESTION MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DIED FOR TRYING TO BRING TO LIGHT.NO ONE KNOWS THE ANSWERS .THE TRUE ANSWERS.

Answer 6

good grief, let it go already!
if you don't believe, so what. they do... so what.

Answer 7

you mean like islam has suicide bombers?

Answer 8

God did it. lol