@wotsup - allow me to say this as gently as possible:
I got sucked into writing on this thread, I wish I had never seen it. and now to my - hopefully polite - response:
Your logic is simply non-existent - you do not provide any suggestion of an argument, your sentences are jumbled, full of references which a casual reader can only guess at - and you expect nothing less than compliance with your view, and your view is clouded in mystery, except, like a drowning man, you keep repeating the phrase 'the word' - yes the Word is indeed important, but it is only important if it makes sense. The Ancient scribes of the Bible knew that they had magic in their mouths and in their hands, hence they said so in their writings - 'take note, we are modern humans, we are the 'Word' and God gave us this power, the 'Word' -
pictures on ancient caves have a similar significance.
I am going to quote something from another book, I am reading atm, it's about the development of us humans and how long it took us to even think about religion.
In the grand scheme of time - and I am assuming you are not from one of those American religions, who believe the earth and its critters haven't existed until about 7000 years ago;
Let's equate the long existence of man, even in his primitive not-yet-man-status to the length of one (1) year: thus
the 1st January would mark the appearance of our distant ancestor,
homo habilis, the one who walked upright and used primitive tools.
he could not talk as we do,
human speech most likely developed - gradually
during the
first three months of 'our year'.
Men's initial progress was slow and halting, fire first for protection from cold and from wild animals, later for cooking, tools chipped from stone, developing hunting skills also developed the cerebral cortex (our brain), so man became ever smarter but still existing in his simple way, hunting, sheltering, breeding, dying young -
Summer came and went
autumn came when
on
1st November Neanderthal Man appeared and we see the first indications of
religious beliefs of the later Neanderthals
around December 17th - (we have discovered some Neanderthal burial sites and have carbon-dated them).
By
December 24th of our hypothetical year, all the primitive forms of homo sapiens have died out or had been absorbed into the more progressive
Cro Magnon man, the one who left us cave paintings in many places.
Agriculture began around
December 28thand
the whole of our historical era, the brief six to ten thousand years for which we have records is nestled in the last two days of that hypothetical year.
December 31st 9 am: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were born
Christ was born at
noonChristopher Columbus was born about
9:30 PM
The final hours of December 31st, from 11pm to midnight, New Years Eve, embraces all of the nineteenth and twentieth (and twentyfirst) centuries.And I am beginning to wonder if our specialisation, our huge brain, isn't going to be the undoing of us all.
Tau
