At The Point Of A Gun

I have occasionally wondered if "year" has been correctly translated somehow. Maybe the word actually referred to a millennium or some greater length of time? Maybe there was no word in the ancient language for "million" which would then put 6000 up to 6 bln were that so, in the range of where geologic science seems to point. Just off the top of where there used to be hair ---

 

Those who hold to that ridiculous 6000 year fantasy do great harm to those who sincerely study scripture. It all harkens back to that's what they were told. So it must be true. If they heard it in church it is gospel, proven truth.

My theory that I am working on, and started presenting in the "Days of Noah" thread reconciles the two camps of creationists and evolutionists. If you really look at what the scriptures are saying there is no contradiction between the two. Science has proven the biblical account to be accurate.
But all research, whether scientific or scriptural, and I don't mean to infer the two are mutually exclusive, has to be amended and redefined whenever new evidences are uncovered. The accepted age of the dawn of civilization was at one time 4-6,000 years ago. Then with the unearthing of the Sumerian culture it was pushed back to 8-10,00 years. Now the unearthing of the Indus Valley culture has pushed that back even farther 10-15,000 years. What new discovery might push it back much farther?

My personal belief, and I won't go into all the evidences and theorems that it is based on, but it is that what we call "civilized" man existed far back into antiquity. They were much more civilized and modernized than we have been taught or that we have ever imagined.
I sincerely believe that ancient man possessed the means of flight. That they had an energy source that we have yet to discover. That they traveled, and mapped the world of their time. That they warred with each other with weapons that only today can we replicate the power of. That their wars caused a worldwide nuclear type winter that if not caused, at least preceded the last ice age. That the grunting, club wielding, hunter gatherer "caveman" is a misconstrued ideal derived from ignored and lacking evidences. That these were the remnants and survivors of a world wide calamity, forced into a subsistence lifestyle and that the primitive caveman stereotype was a rare and isolated instance.

And I don't believe that any of that came from extraterrestrials!!

I believe that there is so much that we don't know, so much yet to be discovered. And that a lot of what we do know gets swept under the rug if it doesn't fit in with some established dogma. Be it academic or scriptural.