I choked on word “prehistoric.”
“Prehistoric” means before we had written records.
Nothing pre-dates Genesis 1:1.
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But Genesis 1:1 is obviously written by someone who isn't God (because it doesn't say "In the Beginning, I, the God, created the Heaven and the Earth". Also, it was written in past tense. Hello? Either there was someone else documenting the event at the scene, or more likely it was written after the fact .
Oh, why am I even explaining this?
No, "prehistoric" means before we had records; records and written words are not the same thing. Even if you are strictly literalist, you would have to believe that God wrote Genesis 1:1 in advance in order for this to be true. But if you are strictly literalist, you believe that Genesis was written by Moses, so it can't be true. Even on your own absurd terms, you fail.
Genesis was written by Moses. Even according to the ridiculous "6000 year old earth" story, he wasn't born until a few thousand years after Genesis 1:1. If you're going to be a fundie, at least do some fucking research into what you fucking believe.
Since Genesis is written in the *past tense*, many things predate it, even by your puny logic.
Note: This filthy, penis-sucking whore of a device has again templates commentary from another thread, and it won't let me edit.
If OP is going to talk about the history of writing, the OP should defiantly research the history of writing before stating that the first thing ever written was Gen 1:1.
Stating anything was the first thing written is laughable, a better statement would be something along the lines of "Title is an early piece of writing".
Genesis wasn't written down until millennia after the events it supposedly documents. Tradition says Moses was given the information on Mount Sinai near the start of the Exodus - 2,513 years after creation (1491 BC), according to Ussher's chronology.
Even if we assume a 6000 year old Earth Genesis wasn't written at the very beginning. At least 1000 years of oral tradition had existed before the first parts of the Bible were ever written down. Hell, the Hindu writings were written well before Genesis was written down. Now, if we DON'T make ridiculous assumptions about the Earth being 6000 years old then that makes your claim even dumber because there are merchant receipts several thousand years older than Genesis and Sumerian myths that not only predate Genesis but are eerily similar to Genesis, almost as if oral tradition had preserved the basic structure of the stories while losing many of the details. On an unrelated note, have you ever played the telephone game?
Nothing pre-dates Genesis 1:1.
Except for Sumerian, Egyptian, and Chinese culture. Who all left written records.
@Reynardine, what device are you using? And have you smashed it yet?
if one has to remain theist, I offer this from the reverend buckland: The bible doesn't mention when God created the world, merely 'ín the beginning'.
Which can mean pretty much anything, so suit yourself.
"Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue." - Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
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