Drich, for what it's worth: The Bible claims Adam lived to be 930 years old. The Hebrew word for year in this passage is 'shanah' (as in Rosh Hashanah) and means a solar year and nothing else. Ditto other claims of great ages among the patriarchs.
Furthermore, your comments regarding different calendars among different cultures are correct as far as they go, but not really relevant. Every ancient culture knew what a year was in the modern sense. Crops were planted and harvested at the same times every year, rivers flooded in a regular and predictable annual basis, the stars returned to the same positions at the same times, and so on.
Lastly, your comments regarding Stonehenge and Newgrange is mind-numbingly idiotic. No one is claiming that the Jews built Stonehenge. Dorfl was using what is known among sensible people as 'an example'. Look it up, do yourself some good.
Boru
Furthermore, your comments regarding different calendars among different cultures are correct as far as they go, but not really relevant. Every ancient culture knew what a year was in the modern sense. Crops were planted and harvested at the same times every year, rivers flooded in a regular and predictable annual basis, the stars returned to the same positions at the same times, and so on.
Lastly, your comments regarding Stonehenge and Newgrange is mind-numbingly idiotic. No one is claiming that the Jews built Stonehenge. Dorfl was using what is known among sensible people as 'an example'. Look it up, do yourself some good.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
