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by Essan
Mon Oct 02, 2006 4:37 am
Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
Topic: Climate Change and Civilization
Replies: 65
Views: 36190

One should consider that with global warming, more evaporation occurs off the oceans, to form more clouds, which cool the atmosphere back down, a buffer system. Yes and no. More evapouration does lead to more clouds. Some of which reflect solar energy back out into space, thus aiding cooling But ot...
by Essan
Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:44 am
Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
Topic: OOPArts
Replies: 104
Views: 49330

You're not the only one to have theorised that GV :)

Other's claim it was the Atlanteans..... :roll: Or maybe it was the British?

http://www.philipcoppens.com/copper.html

It's not something I've ever looked into enough to have any firm opinion on.
by Essan
Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:35 am
Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
Topic: the exodus revisitied
Replies: 165
Views: 57592

Your problem, oas, is that you're incapable of demonstrating any flaw in the historical account of the Bible, keep trying though, knock yourself out. Have you read any of his posts? He and I have pointed out a very fundamental flaw: the lack of any collaborative evidence :roll: Some of us adopt a m...
by Essan
Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:15 am
Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
Topic: Abram/Abraham/Ram/Brahma
Replies: 64
Views: 36607

Hmmm, is it not possible that both the Judaic Abraham and the Hindu Brahma are based on a similar, much earlier story? As far as the original linked article goes:- About 1900 BC, the cult of Brahm was carried to the Middle and Near East by several different Indian groups after a severe rainfall and ...
by Essan
Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:00 am
Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
Topic: the exodus revisitied
Replies: 165
Views: 57592

If you were to read Caesar's commentaries on the Wars in Gaul you would find that he never lost a battle or made a mistake. He did both. Good analogy :) Now, in the case of the Exodus we have a story of a large group of people living in Egypt who, as one, up and leave for Canaan. They spend 40 year...
by Essan
Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:28 am
Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
Topic: OOPArts
Replies: 104
Views: 49330

Beagle, why would 40,000 ya be an anomalous date according to the mainstream chronology of human history? If human history really goes back many hudreds of thousands of years, then why couldn't they have migrated to the "New World" hundreds of thousands of years before 40,000 ya? There we...
by Essan
Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:38 am
Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
Topic: Books you own that you're not proud of.....
Replies: 10
Views: 5417

I'm proud to say that I no longer own Gods of the New Millenoium - but I did buy it once ...... I actually have quite a library of 'embarassing' books: they do make good light readng on a Sunday afternoon .... :D It does help to know how and where people originally get their weird and wonderful idea...
by Essan
Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:12 am
Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
Topic: Nile Shrank When OK Fell
Replies: 31
Views: 11765

So, the Old Kingdom did collapse from drought, but the article says there was a mini Ice Age then, which is ridiculous, because the greater cloud-cover (and thereby precipitation) from an Ice Age would have caused more rain in the middle latitudes, so, in reality, the Ice Age ended when Egypt dried...
by Essan
Sat Sep 16, 2006 3:39 am
Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
Topic: Some Non-Biblical, Non-Flood, Archaeology....
Replies: 35
Views: 15759

You say that "when the main ice sheet melted there was no further significant change in sea level," and you said previously that most of the ice sheet melted between 14000 B.C. and 9,500 B.C., so how could megalithic cities from 3000 B.C. have been submerged because of that melt, you have...
by Essan
Sat Sep 16, 2006 3:21 am
Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
Topic: Climate Change and Civilization
Replies: 65
Views: 36190

Well, they do say our distant ancestors came down from the trees becauise of climate change. And we started forming cities because of climate change. The Roman Empire rose in a period of warmer climate, and collapsed when a cold period set in. When the warmth returned we had the Rennaisance. The Lit...
by Essan
Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:38 am
Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
Topic: Some Non-Biblical, Non-Flood, Archaeology....
Replies: 35
Views: 15759

The why has the sea level not risen since at least 1500 B.C.? Once the main ice sheet had melted there was no further significant change in sea levels. Though of course small changes are always underway - sea levels fell during the Little Ice Age as more water was locked up in arctic ice and in gla...
by Essan
Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:35 am
Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
Topic: Neandertal/Neanderthal
Replies: 101
Views: 28488

Thickened brow-ridges does not make a monkey-man, haven't you seen people running around with thickened brow-ridges? No. Not as per neanderthal skulls. Besides, who calls them 'monkey-man' ? They were no more monkeys than you or I. And whilst I undertand some scientists have suggested interbreeding...
by Essan
Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:25 am
Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
Topic: Some Non-Biblical, Non-Flood, Archaeology....
Replies: 35
Views: 15759

Then why is it that nobody (except you) seems to be saying that much of the end of the Ice Age occurred around 3000 B.C.? (Watch it, you're beginning to agree with my timeline.) Not at all - if the sea levels had been rising for 10,000 years prior to that time then it means the ice must have been m...
by Essan
Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:17 am
Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
Topic: Neandertal/Neanderthal
Replies: 101
Views: 28488

Explain to me again why neanderthal bone structure is so different from modern man's ;) All neanderthal skulls display the same raised eyebrow ridges - a feature not found in modern man. Were they all suffering form the same gentic disease, one which no longer affects us? I'm surprised actually that...
by Essan
Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:10 am
Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
Topic: Some Non-Biblical, Non-Flood, Archaeology....
Replies: 35
Views: 15759

So, Essan, according to you, the megalithic structures submerged off southern Spain at Tarifa, Chipiona, Rota, and Huelva, must have been built "15,000 years or so" ago? No, all I said is that sea levels have steadily risen for the past 15,000 or so years ;) However, generally speaking se...