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#351669
Michael
Okay.. okay... yep, I follow ya! Ummm... what about those slanted eyes?
12/4/2007 2:19:27 PM
#351670
anevilmeme
1 The oldest known written language is Sumerian
2 The tower of babel was a story
3 Noah's ark was a story
12/4/2007 2:20:06 PM
#351673
Brainy
This is so stupid, I don't he know what he is attempting to explain.
12/4/2007 2:22:17 PM
#351677
Osiris
1) We have no physical proof that a tower of such monolithic size was ever built.
2) Human DNA, along with the remains of ancient bones, clearly show that people migrated out of Africa.
12/4/2007 2:26:43 PM
#351680
Are you sure the chronology works or what?, which sources are you using?
12/4/2007 2:31:31 PM
#351681
Mister Spak
"According to gullible fundies,
this confusion of language and the subsequent scattering of people
"over the face of the whole earth" took place 500 years
before the oldest written language (Chinese) was created.
Fixed.
12/4/2007 2:33:20 PM
#351682
John
According to historians, this confusion of language and the subsequent scattering of people "over the face of the whole earth" took place 500 years before the oldest written language (Chinese) was created.
What historians? According to Bishop Ussher, the world was created in 4004 BC. According to Genesis, the Flood occurred 1,656 years later, or 2348 BC. The oldest writings verified so far have been Sumerian and Egyptian, both between 3000 and 3500 BC - a thousand years before the Flood.
12/4/2007 2:34:22 PM
#351684
Whoever
"Great + Division + West + Walk = Migrate?"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
12/4/2007 2:36:07 PM
#351692
Brian X
What in the world is point 5 about?
12/4/2007 2:50:39 PM
#351698
Blackvoice
JoeU + bible + technology + audience = PHAIL
12/4/2007 2:59:54 PM
#351700
Pickle
Please stop yourself while you are ahead.
12/4/2007 3:00:07 PM
#351722
Mike
THE STUPID! IT BURNS!!
12/4/2007 3:24:03 PM
#351724
Illuminatalie
He's trying to lie, but he can't summon a coherent thought..
12/4/2007 3:27:28 PM
#351727
Caustic Gnostic
"Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet."
Well, I like the prose....
12/4/2007 3:29:02 PM
#351732
Botulism!
So the ancient Chinese ideogram for "migration" involves a great division of troops marching to the west? What is your source for this, and exactly how does it help your case?
12/4/2007 3:31:07 PM
#351749
Tempus
@John: Someone had to have forgotten to tell the Egyptians they were under a couple of miles of water during the Flood, or else they'd surely have mentioned it somewhere. Notoriously unobservant, these Egyptians were.... :D
12/4/2007 4:01:48 PM
#351761
3 of Clubs
"All nations migrated or moved from Iraq."
Didn't the Ark land in Turkey? Wouldn't civilization expand from there? Or did they all just stay around the Mediterranean till God scattered them? And then didn't God himself scatter the people across the globe? The KJV doesn't say they walked.
12/4/2007 4:28:51 PM
#351773
cyborgtroy
Actually, I believe modern theories state that humans likely evolved in Africa and migrated, but DIDN'T catastrophically change languages all at once.
12/4/2007 4:47:20 PM
#351808
Old Viking
Geez, JoeU, we all know that.
12/4/2007 5:28:02 PM
#351809
Trovore
Actually as you'll recall from our previous conversations the people after the flood spoke the same language as God and the Angels: King James English. Uhhhh Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
12/4/2007 5:28:59 PM
#351811
tracer
Um ... historians, by definition, base their picture of the past on written records.
How would historians have anything to say about events that happened 500 years before the invention of writing?
12/4/2007 5:30:34 PM
#351833
ArmandT
I'm chinese, and I have no idea what the fuck you are talking about.
Is this the same guy who thought that because the word 'slave' was made up of the word 'woman', it meant all women are slaves?
12/4/2007 6:07:08 PM
#351840
szena
@ArmandT - there's apparently a whole website devoted to "proof" that Chinese characters commemorate various events in the Bible, which is where the OP copied his post from.
http://www.wbschool.org/Chinese.swf
Did they completely make this stuff up or did they just use some very creative interpretations?
12/4/2007 6:22:30 PM
#351851
[url=http://rlrr.drum-corps.net/]rlrr[/url]
WTF?
12/4/2007 6:38:37 PM
#352017
Illuminatalie
Oh my dear God. Well, I guess it was obvious there was something that inspired that word salad (I figured it was either their minister or some pamphlet they had recently read), so this is obviously what did it. Some innovative manipulators actually came up with a little Powerpoint-y web presentation on their "new take on Chinese history". They're trying to get people to enroll in their courses, where they can teach them the power of reading goat entrails or backward message philosophies or whatever.
12/4/2007 8:37:49 PM
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