The people stuff in South America is only 6000 to 15,000 years old White Dove. The continents have not moved very much in that time. It took a looooooong time for them to get where they are today....oompa
Those Jews were some fast travellers!!!
by oompa 12 Replies latest jw friends
-
-
marmot
Woah there white dove, you're mixing up two vastly different time scales. The plates have been drifting ever since the earth formed a crust. Scientists talk of "geological time" because it takes millions and millions of years for these processes to take place.
Scientists theorize that the formation and breakup of supercontinents is a cyclical event that has happened many times throughout the earth's 4.6 billion-year history. The last supercontinent, Pangea, began drifting apart approximately 250 million years ago during the Mesozoic era, which is long before modern humans.
No form of hominid remains have ever been found in the Americas aside from modern humans. The jury is still out as to when or how the first humans arrived in North America but it's generally agreed that they arrived at the end of the last ice age either by boat (which is hinted at by the Cape Verde site) or along the ice-free coasts which are now submerged because of the subsequent rise in sea levels. There is also the Bering Straight land bridge theory, that suggests ice-age hunters followed their prey through a corridor in the continental ice from Asia into America.
One interesting paleo-archaeological discovery is that primates had evolved by the time South America separated from Africa and these two isolated groups have been evolving separately from each other ever since. That is why all "new world" primates have a unique dentition pattern that is found in no other "old world" primate. -
VM44
17 years since the Watchtower last wrote about Carbon-14 dating?
It appears that their knowledge on the subject is somewhat dated!
--VM44