Posted: Dec 13, 2018 12:22 am
Hi,
I'm in the process of writing a long essay debunking the creationist/fundamentalist views of the Jehovah's Witnesses and critiquing their scholastic dishonesty. It covers a lot of ground, but I have limited knowledge of some topics. I'd like to enlist help from knowledgeable people on this board to find debunking resources that could be used as links to further resources in my essay. Presumably, the "Creationism" forum is one place to do this.
I'm currently researching the history of human habitation of North Africa and the Near East, with the ultimate goal of showing how ridiculous the Fundamentalist claim of Noah's Flood is, in view of the physical evidence that humans have been in Egypt almost continuously for hundreds of thousands of years. Fundies claim that Egyptian history can go back no more than to the time they usually assign to Noah's Flood, 2350 BCE, yet various histories of Egypt give about 3150 BCE for the earliest written documents from Egypt. Does anyone know of resources that detail how the 3150 date has been determined? I have The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt but it doesn't get into the details of how dates have been determined.
Alan
I'm in the process of writing a long essay debunking the creationist/fundamentalist views of the Jehovah's Witnesses and critiquing their scholastic dishonesty. It covers a lot of ground, but I have limited knowledge of some topics. I'd like to enlist help from knowledgeable people on this board to find debunking resources that could be used as links to further resources in my essay. Presumably, the "Creationism" forum is one place to do this.
I'm currently researching the history of human habitation of North Africa and the Near East, with the ultimate goal of showing how ridiculous the Fundamentalist claim of Noah's Flood is, in view of the physical evidence that humans have been in Egypt almost continuously for hundreds of thousands of years. Fundies claim that Egyptian history can go back no more than to the time they usually assign to Noah's Flood, 2350 BCE, yet various histories of Egypt give about 3150 BCE for the earliest written documents from Egypt. Does anyone know of resources that detail how the 3150 date has been determined? I have The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt but it doesn't get into the details of how dates have been determined.
Alan