Mushroom
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Off topic.
Says the person that constantly derails them with rants on religion.
You seem to be upset I am calling you for being off-topic, and can only think of saying that to me.
Trolls will be trolls.
Off topic.
Are you done yet with your juvenile name-calling?Says the person that constantly derails them with rants on religion.
You seem to be upset I am calling you for being off-topic, and can only think of saying that to me.
Trolls will be trolls.
Stalking and harassing are Harridan's métiers.
They are offensive and are supposed to be violations of the Terms agreed upon by all who post here.
The moderators and owner disgracefully allow her vile abuse and then ask for donations.
"In meeting the world's needs, however, the oil from the United States will continue to occupy a less and less dominant position, because within the next two to five years the oil fields of this country will reach their maximum production and from that on we will face an ever increasing decline."— October 23, 1919 Oil and Gas News
"As a nation, Americans have been reluctant to accept the prospect of physical shortages. We must recognize that world oil production will likely peak in the early 1990's, and from that point on will be on a declining curve. By the early part of the 21st century, we must face the prospect of running out of oil and natural gas." — 1977 US Department of Energy Organization Act
"Unfortunately, oil production will likely peak by 2020 and start declining. Without a change, developing countries will ultimately be left in the dark, and developed countries will struggle to keep the lights on. Conflict is inevitable. My guess is that this won't become a big issue unless there is a thalidomide event. We will have to see in the rear-view mirror that we are past the peak in worldwide oil production." — Richard Smalley, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1996
All of you rude individuals, THIS IS THE SCIENCE FRAUD thread.
You're rude and inconsiderate.
Moderators, owner, if I ever had the notion to donate to the maintenance of this festering cesspool, your failure to do anything about these off-topic rants would stop me cold from
giving a dollar.
There is no such thing as creation science.Why don't you post it under religion. Creation science is such a joke. By the time of Adam and Eve Sumer had a written language, irrigation, agriculture and sailboats.
Actually, the bulk of the creation~genesis part of the Old Testament is lifted from the writings of Sumer.Why don't you post it under religion. Creation science is such a joke. By the time of Adam and Eve Sumer had a written language, irrigation, agriculture and sailboats.
Actually, the bulk of the creation~genesis part of the Old Testament is lifted from the writings of Sumer.
Says the person that constantly derails them with rants on religion.
You (Bitter nag) seem to be upset I am calling you for being off-topic, and can only think of saying that to me.
Trolls will be trolls.
very good recap. On Truman, if he was alive today he would not be a democrat, neither would Kennedy.I missed the part in your tedious cutting and pasting about the brutality and suffering that the religious institutions imposed on humanity with their wars of conquest and aggression.
The Catholic church never excommunicated Hitler.
The Catholic church grudgingly paid millions in compensation to the thousands of boys abused by the sex trafficking syndicate run by the church leadership but there was hardly any acknowledgement of the damage they caused.
As usual in your cutting and pasting, you try to connect a few sociopaths of the 20th Century socialist / Communist regimes with atheism and then try to connect atheism with the killing performed by those sociopaths. That theme appears in most of your cutting and pasting.
What you fail to understand is that the abuses by Mao, Lenin, etc were in furtherance of their political ideology and a function of their mental disorder. On the other hand, the wars of conquest and aggression by Christianity were in furtherance of spreading the religion. South American Indian babies, heathens, were baptized by the Conquistadors and then had their heads smashed in. Lovely!
The Crusades were about conquest and capture of territory.
Neither Lenin, Mao, Stalin, etc., used atheism as a rallying call.
You priests and their conquest of young boys, however....
She is unable to add anything to any discussion.
I have challenged her to write some original science.
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All of you rude individuals, THIS IS THE SCIENCE FRAUD thread.Stop it.
"Similarities surely exist between Genesis and the Enuma Elish, but unfortunately, critics have exaggerated these superficial similarities, simultaneously downplaying the differences. Even a cursory reading of both texts reveals the stark dissimilarities between these two accounts."
She is unable to add anything to any discussion.
I have challenged her to write some original science.
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very good recap. On Truman, if he was alive today he would not be a democrat, neither would Kennedy.
Stop it yourself.Stop it.
"Similarities surely exist between Genesis and the Enuma Elish, but unfortunately, critics have exaggerated these superficial similarities, simultaneously downplaying the differences. Even a cursory reading of both texts reveals the stark dissimilarities between these two accounts."
Sumerian writing and records go back at least to about 4,000 BC.
I'll agree there's a fairly consistent consensus on the Old Testament first being written @550-330 BCE.Actually, that is more like 2800 BCE.
Yes, there was "writing" before that, but it was purely record keeping with no form of "language" that was only symbolic. Essentially just an accountant shorthand. Essentially nothing more than who owned (or owed) how much of what items. It had no more context or "literary value" than any other pictographs. It was over a thousand years after it was first used that it actually advanced to what you are thinking of.
And the Old Testament was written down much later. From around 550-330 BCE. Prior to that it was entirely an oral tradition.
Traditional Chronology of Early Mesopotamia | |
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Hassunah period | 5800–5500 BC |
Halaf period | 5500–4500 BC |
Ubaid period | 5300–3750 BC |
Warka (Uruk) period | 3750–3150 BC |
Protoliterate (Jamdat Nasr) period | 3150–2900 BC |
Early Dynastic I | 2900–2750 BC |
Early Dynastic II | 2750–2600 BC |
Early Dynastic IIIA | 2600–2500 BC |
Early Dynastic IIIB | 2500–2334 BC |
Dynasty of Akkad (Sargon the Great) | 2334–2154 BC |
Dynasty of Gutium | 2217–2120 BC |
Reign of Utu-khegal | 2120–2112 BC |
Ur III Dynasty | 2112–2004 BC |
Dynasty of Isin | 2017–1787 BC |
Dynasty of Larsa | 2025–1763 BC |
First Dynasty of Babylon (Hammurabi) | 1894–1595 BC |
The "Epic of Gilgamesh" further muddies the waters since it appears to have been written around 2100 BCE, but relates events that would have occurred hundreds or more years earlier.