RE: Evidence God Exists
November 15, 2011 at 9:18 am
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2011 at 9:24 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't think you've accurately represented the field of plausible explanations with only these two options.
I would readily agree that the traditions that sprung up in and around the fertile crescent are littered with similarity. I invoke a simpler and more well demonstrated explanation for those similarities (contact and cultural transfer).
Fun. The flood narrative could easily be explained as neanderthals stealing women before a warming period in which home sapiens sapiens were the winner. The problem in doing so is that it would require that you bend not only the myth but our knowledge of prehistory, all of this when simpler explanations are offered.
(My entire family is filled with red heads, does that mean I can claim neanderthals as my ancestor definitively? In that case, I resent the hateful view of my entire ancestral race as a bunch of rapists! Like they would have mated with your disgusting homo sapien sapien women. The notion is absurd sir, absurd! Perhaps if your ancestors were larger, and more manly, you wouldn't have to wonder where your women went when they snuck off?)
I would readily agree that the traditions that sprung up in and around the fertile crescent are littered with similarity. I invoke a simpler and more well demonstrated explanation for those similarities (contact and cultural transfer).
Fun. The flood narrative could easily be explained as neanderthals stealing women before a warming period in which home sapiens sapiens were the winner. The problem in doing so is that it would require that you bend not only the myth but our knowledge of prehistory, all of this when simpler explanations are offered.
(My entire family is filled with red heads, does that mean I can claim neanderthals as my ancestor definitively? In that case, I resent the hateful view of my entire ancestral race as a bunch of rapists! Like they would have mated with your disgusting homo sapien sapien women. The notion is absurd sir, absurd! Perhaps if your ancestors were larger, and more manly, you wouldn't have to wonder where your women went when they snuck off?)
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