recent discoveries in ancient egypt and baghdad have shown that people possessed advanced technologies thousands of years ago. electricity was used and depictions of flying craft have been found in the ancient ruins. the pyramids were built to a degree that could not be replicated today.the mayans were astonishlingy correct in many of their predictions. the theory of evolution is now questioned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery
http://www.2atoms.com/weird/ancient/plane.htm
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/egypt/archaeology/weirdtheories/alienpyramids.html
http://home.att.net/~thehessians/MayanCalendar.html
http://www.remnantofgod.org/creation.htm#series
2007-04-04 03:11:52 · 14 answers · asked by scauma 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
contrary to what some have said, we cannot replicate the pyramids, any elementary search will prove that, and furthermore i find it hard to grasp the idea that the pyramids are "just a pile of rocks" i'm not seeking info to validate what i believe b/c what i believe is irrelevant. if we could erase all preconcievedideas we hold, and just examined the facts, most ppl would find it hard to conclude a primitive society was capable of such things, as for erie nothing you said merits a rebuttal b/c you obviously are ill informed. i know people who worked diectly w/ the military and govt and the depth of knowledge that is out there that we do't know is staggering. i would post some of these things but this isn't the correct forum nor would anyone believe me. but here is fodder for you ppl to bash me on. a very good friend of mine who served in Afghanistan toldme that they knew exactly where bin laden was and we're told to stand down. you don't have to believe me and i know you won't.
2007-04-04 05:45:05 · update #1
It's because each generation has this belief that they are smarter that the previous one.
Remember, at age 15, how you were "smarter" than your parents. Remember, at age 18, how sex was this "new invention" and your parents didn't know what you were feeling or what you were doing. At age 25 you knew more than the boss, etc.
Were not afraid of the truth; its beyond our small minds to comprehend what might have come before.
Does a colony of ants realize that they are a footstep away from being crushed? Do we humans really comprehend that we may be living in a similar situation ?
2007-04-04 03:21:44 · answer #1 · answered by davidosterberg1 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most of those articles are unmitigated nonsense.
The "Baghdad battery" looks real to me, and isn't all that shocking. We know the ancient Greeks invented the steam engine too, they just never applied it to an industrial revolution - perhaps partly because doing so would have turned their slavery-based society upside down.
The "airplanes" do look a lot like planes, but if the Incas had the technology to actually build modern-looking planes, countless influences of that technology would have been found by now - and not just in toys or jewelry.
The "accuracy" of the pyramids is in most respects mythical and in other respects easily attainable by the methods known to ancient peoples. The "cydonia/Mars" reference is particularly laughable, since detailed satellite photos of the site have proven that there are no "pyramids" there - just as they've proven that the "face on Mars" is just another hill that happens to look a bit like a face when you take a blurry image in the correct lighting.
As for 2012, that bit of doom and gloom has been addressed here repeatedly. Every few years, the doomsters latch onto some new date as the supposed "end of the world". When the date comes and nothing happens, do they proclaim error? Nope... they merely latch onto a new date that's a few years in the future. This has been going on for hundreds of years already, and the world hasn't ended yet. Aint nuttin' gonna happen in 2012, folks.
As for all the ridiculous anti-evolution "proofs", there's too much silliness for me to address it all here. Check the talkorigins website for debunkings.
2007-04-04 10:44:35 · answer #2 · answered by Bramblyspam 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
What advanced technologies? For their time, yes, the idea of batteries and even simple computers, but we advanced. Flying objects??? Well if you were to see a meteorite, and it is arching towards earth, then it must be a flying object....and extrapolating with Biblical texts and other writings, we know that both exaggeration and myth enter the equation. The pyramids of Egypt could be duplicated and finished to a finer degree but to what purpose...after all we do have edifices such as the Eiffel Tower (which is not shabby construction) and the Golden Gate Bridge (takes a lot of engineering) and lastly the Great Wall of China created of mud, rock, a rice gruel and hard labor. Humans have been doing things since the neolithic era and we continue to do things....some work and some fail but not due to extraterrestrial sources.
2007-04-04 10:28:04 · answer #3 · answered by Frank 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Their technologies were very crude. If you find a mayan or Egyptian iPod or cell phone or flying craft and not an interpretation of a drawing that says it was a flying craft, post it.
I'll take it seroiusly then. The pyramids were just a pile of stones and nothing more.
2007-04-04 10:28:32 · answer #4 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) Like what?
2) No they didn't. We doodle too - does that mean there are aliens visiting or we can ride T-rexs? No.
3) Yes, we can rebuild the pyramids if we want to.
4) Yes, they were. But the world is not about to end.
5) That has NOTHING to do with the other statements you made, and it's only being questioned by those who know nothign about it. Not by scientists, who actually study it.
2007-04-04 11:39:55 · answer #5 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they just had drawings of this imagine our societies get ruined by whatever reason and new societies build up from scratch and get to the point that we had 100 years ago. imagine they find a picture of a cyborg that someone drew or a UFO with a lot of detail. they will believe that we used to have such things.
2007-04-04 11:06:57 · answer #6 · answered by someguy53 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The truth?
It seems like you accept shaky evidence that confirms to what you want to believe, and reject mountains of high quality evidence for things that you don't want to believe.
That's not the way to discover the truth.
2007-04-04 12:31:01 · answer #7 · answered by Phaedrus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when technological societies like ours go out of existence there will be no one in the future to learn from what we left behind.
2007-04-04 10:41:43 · answer #8 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope
2007-04-04 10:16:27 · answer #9 · answered by mlb212522 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
every generation has their viewpoints
but if it comes to knowledge.. well ...
according to the pisa studies its wiser to listen to older people, cause they ARE able to clearly point out the difference between speculation and truth.
afraid of the truth ?
no, i'm old
2007-04-04 10:43:03 · answer #10 · answered by blondnirvana 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋