Greetings from the land of ice and snow,,,, Last week I watched a tv show on the Iceman found frozen in Alps, about 10yrs ago. It was an update on what scientists have found the last few years. They say he is 5300 yrs old, which would put him at roughly 3300bc. They found an arrow tip in his back {which was new to me}, But also the contents of his stomach. It contained venison and goat meat mixed with assorted plant matter. 3300bc was before the flood according to witness doctrine. I remember learning preflood people were vegetarians, And man only started eating meat after the flood. ...... Any comments???
ICEMAN
by Mr Spock 4 Replies latest jw friends
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searcher
It must be a fake created by apostates who have nothing better to do
searcher.
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NeonMadman
Drat, I thought this thread was gonna be about that character in the X-Men...
Anyway, to address the question at hand: The Society has gone to great lengths to debunk the methods used to establish dates in ancient times (e.g. radiocarbon dating). They'd probably just say that the dating of the iceman's body was wrong and that he "must have" lived after the flood. That is, if they even addressed the issue at all.
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Francois
Whatever the society has said about the Iceman, if it has had the guts to say anything, has doubtless sounded something like: "keep your eye on the pea, nothing up my sleeve, no rabbit in this hat. Watch closely now..."
Going to the society for their scientific views is like going to a man for his views on the experience of childbirth.
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Thirdson
Spock,
There was an Awake article on ice man which tried to hide the age of the body. Their quote was from a report early on, and from of all places, the magazine of the Audubon Society of the US. They did not report on the extensive dating procedures that were used and explained in the book by Konrad Spindler, even though they refrered to the German language version of "the Man in the Ice."
The findings of this bronze-age body cause several problems for Watchtower Chronology. When the man lived the Alps were pretty much the same as they are today. The climatic conditions caused the preservation of his body. He died at a high elevation, in a snow storm and was buried in snowpack for almost all of the 5000 years. He did not live in a tropical climate with few large hills at a time of no precipitation. He hunted, had sophisicated tools and ate a diet that included meat. His world was not at all like the creationist pre-deluvian world suggested by Watchtower writers.
Thirdson