eric76 said:
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SeMgCo87 said:
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Who is the guy that posits the theory that the Sphinx is actually around 15,000 years old based on erosion lines? Maybe he is onto something.
Graham Hancock
He also believes a 20,000 year old advanced civilization built Goblekli Tepe because the people living there when it was thought to have been built by archaeologists 6-8 k years ago weren't advanced enough to build it but he doesn't state how this super advanced society from 20,000 years ago left absolutely zero evidence behind that they ever existed like tools, homes, skeletons, literature etc.
He basically states in all of his theories that either a comet or a flood wiped out all evidence other than the monoliths left today that we attribute to much later periods.
Yeah, Gobekli Tepe was originally thought to be 6-8k BC...not just years ago...making it 8-10k years ago. But last I heard, newer dating studies have pushed it back to 10,000 BC...or 12,000 years ago.
Most archeologists don't like to tamper with existing date timelines because everyone wants it to fit in nice neat little story boxes...even though archeologists can't dispute the carbon dating, they screech like liberals getting USAID $$ pulled from their slush funds...G-T craps all over their nice to eat, compartmentalized stories...because, ng well, you know, they didn't have advanced degrees, or knew calculus...besides the Hebrew calendar started 5,800 years ago, so there...
Well one should always be cautious before revising or upsetting an accepted timeline without extremely close attention paid to its original assumptions and founding arguments. (Often those have been forgotten over time, but are there to check if go back) A good example of what you are talking about is there is a new competing timeline for the history and dates of some of the dynasties of the Pharaohs. It pegs its timeline among other things upon a rather securely dated stellar event (a rare type of total eclipse at sunset I think would have to check) in a letting about the burning of a palace to Pharaoh Akhenaten. If its right, that reign doesn't fall in the time frame usually assumed. But -- this remains to be more thoroughly tested --- but it is interesting.
History and archeological history have internal debates like that. Another is the date of Herod the Great's death -- was it 4 B.C. or 1 B.C. (later case seems a bit stronger now) To set aside an accepted timeline takes some time and usually more than a few separate proofs showing it correct. Also, you need to disprove or show why flawed the original anchor points.
As a service to our church, I volunteered to research and then present to the congregation why the date of Easter bounces around between March 22 and April 25...never before and never after.
And we must assume two things...that Jesus was crucified when he was 33 (33-1/2??), and King Herod was alive when Jesus was born...if those are true, then Jesus was born between 5 and 4 BC, and crucified in 30 AD...and because the sequence of events (Last Supper, arrest, Pilate sentencing, cross-carrying, crucifixion, burial and Resurrection) exactly matches Passover timing for Sedel (Hebrew day starts at 6 PM), and 33 AD requires careful calculation of the date for the second Tuesday of next week, well...
And I was taught that the year count started at zero when he was born...when I told the above to a Roman Catholic, he splattered me with brain matter. Could not rationalize Jesus being born BC...Before Christ...
By the way, even biblical scholars argue to this day, whether crucifixion was in 30 or 33 AD...vehemenently and with scorn shed upon each other.
My thoughts are that he was born in the 5-4 BC range, and Herod could have died either in 4 or 1 BC...wouldn't matter.
If you would like the Easter algorithm, I have it in a book somewhere.
There's actually several of them, and I downloaded them...at least the ones I found...
The hilarious part was reviewing the one for the Hebrew Calendar...Jews used a "Lunisolar" calendar, lunar cycle sums to 353-354 days...12 days off a full Solar year. They used two different Metonic cycles...one starting from 2, the other from 3. And based on what year (count) in the full Metonic cycle (19 years, then everything repeats), they would use one or the other...so sometimes on the 2 scale, they may actually be 4 days ahead...but over several Metonic cycles I guess it would even out. And lest we forget, His Royal Emperorship Julius Caesar intro'd the Julian Calendar in 44 BC, based on the Egyptian Solar Calendar, with 365.25 days..
And then, as Julian dates began to shatter all kinds traditional dates - Spring Equinox (planting), Passover, Fall Equinox (harvest) - Pope Gregory authorized a more correct calendar count (Gregorian Calendar, what we use today)...based on 365.2422 days per year, leap day every 4 years, and no leap day every 400 years. This explains why 2000 was not a leap year.
The October, 1583 calendar was hilarious...1,2,3,4,15,16,17...
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