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Pariah said:

Lemme try to sum things up with everything that both creationists and secularists alike agree upon.


1) The great flood occurred at the end of the Ice Age at about 7000 BC and that it covered a great part of the Northern Hemisphere including Europe, Africa, a great part of Asia and of North America.

2) All of the members of the human race that existed at the time of the flood were located in the area that was covered by the flood (and all of the domestic animals as well) unless those that might have taken refuge in a large ship with provisions for several months. Up to the time of the flood, the great bulk of the human race was confined within the relatively small area called the “Fertile Crescent”, which includes Egypt, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Iran, and the territory around the Caspian Sea. Furthermore, the inhabitants of this area built numerous towns and cities in which they carried on various simple industries, tilled the grounds and kept domestic animals whilst the remainder of the human race, which was in Europe, Africa, and the part of Asia west of the Himalaya Mountains did none of these things and simply sheltered in caves and lived off the flesh of wild animals.

3) No certain trace of any human inhabitant has been found anywhere in India or China or in any country east of the Himalaya Mountains before 7000 BC, which is the approximate date of the Deluge.

4) Excavations show that Mesopotamia was the first country to be occupied after the flood, that it was in Mesopotamia that the firs system of writing was invented, which was brought to Egypt, to China, and to America where it is still used by the Indians.

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Earliest Sign of Human Habitation in East Asia Found in China


Chinese and American fossil hunters say stone implements discovered in northern China are the earliest evidence of human habitation in eastern Asia.

The tools are around 1.36 million years old, which also indicates early man ventured farther north earlier than previously thought, they report in the British scientific journal Nature.

The artifacts comprise scrapers and borers found in the Nihenwan Basin, near the Sanggan River in northern China, an area of thick lake silt that has been a treasure trove of mammal fossils.

A team from Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and California Polytechnic State University carried out a dating analysis of the soils.

Human Habitation in South America

The oldest known dates for human habitation in the Americas are from sites in South America. The Monte Verde site in southern Chile has an occupation floor that is dated at 33,000 years ago. The tools at Monte Verde are of simple stone technology, but they indicate local environmental adaptation, not simply a variation of Siberian hunting technology. The degree of adaptation is significant because it indicates successful human occupation of South American coastlines for a considerable length of time.

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