How do JWs explain Egyptian society and culture surviving the flood?

by BU2B 35 Replies latest social current

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  Anony Mous

  The thing is, everybody can TEST the archeological evidence themselves. You can do all the nuclear physics calculations and you can do the measurements and there is plenty of evidence of places ALL over the world. Cave paintings in Europe, the early (advanced) settlements that date back to 12,000BC.

  Decay of carbon matter (such as wood and plant material to build the earliest houses as well as the people that lived there), halflife of several different radio-isotopes, geological layers (depth) and contemporary fossils in the vicinity, those are all different methods that can give a date-time period (some more precise than others). If there were major problems in one or all of these (scientific) theories (learn what a theory IS before answering), then they will give wildly different times. The problem for creationists is that they don't give a different time.

  Even so, if the flood were true, you would have a mass-extinction event. We have had mass-extinction events in earth's history repeatedly (that's how most of the dinosaurs disappeared and why we only have relatively small dinosaurs (eg. crocodiles and cephalopods) left) but the most recent one is ~50M years ago, not 6,000 years.
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  Phizzy

  You cannot be a Bible Literalist unless you ignore Reason, Logic and Facts. Jehovah's Witnesses are nearly as bad as Young Earth Creationists for this.

  And as said above, when confronted with things they cannot explain, they resort to dishonesty, either to you, or with themselves.

  Ironic, when they claim to be "lovers of truth".
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  BU2B

  That may be true DD, exept for the fact that the official JW stance (one of their most ludicrous) is that all creatures were vegitarians before the flood! My dad actually told me when I was young that the tyranasourus Rex had those sharp teeth to crack open coconuts lmfao!!
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  Apognophos

  I'd actually question whether that's still the official stance. I don't believe you'll find a quote to that effect without going back decades in the literature (no later than the '80s, I'd say). Also, the Society has made more recent symbolic application of the relevant scriptures, saying that the "wolf will lie down with the lamb" in the sense of formerly dangerous people living peacefully aside the meek ones in the new system.

  You know, people here often divide JW beliefs into one of two categories, old and new light, but I think there's a third category, "moldy light". It's light that has been left in the back of the fridge for a long time and no one in the Writing Department or Governing Body wants to acknowledge it, hoping that it will go away on its on. Besides vegetarian carnivores, another example would be the restrictions on oral and anal sex. Elders might still act as if these are current teachings, but the Society hasn't touched that subject for a while, to my knowledge.
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  BU2B

  Thats true apognophos, however, as a die hard JW will tell you, its current light until there is new light to replace it. They will ask "has there been any new information on that?"
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  hamsterbait

  Anonymous -

  You are sooo right on the question thingie.

  There was a Question Box in a Kingdumb Misery a while back that forbade asking any question that the Gibberin Buddies had not already asked and dealt with themselves in the litterature.

  Asking too many questions always brings you under suspicion in any police state.

  Apogno - the Society has always said NOTHING on old light they hope the sheeples will forget. It doesnt mean they have replaced it with anything better.

  For my part, having considered the science and history over many years, I cannot worship a "god" who will murder me because I know that what 8 popes in Crooklyn are saying is TRUE TRUE TRUE is actually LIES

  HB