OTZI Iceman age at death

Re: OTZI Iceman age at death


It is false that the "Iceman" discovery caused scientists to "re-date" the smelting of copper--that's number one. Number two, it is only interpretive and highly imaginative reading of the Bobble that would lead anyone to claim that scripture has anything to say about when copper was first smelted.



Otzi is thought to have lived and died circa 3300 BCE. That's at a conservative estimate, more than 5000 years after copper is known to have been smelted and used for at least ornamental purposes.

Far from showing that the bible is "a book of facts," what is known about the smelting of copper shows that it is woefully inaccurate. In 1654, Bishop James Ussher said that according to his exegesis, the world was created "after nightfall" on Saturday, October 22, 4004 BCE. (Of course, he used the abbreviation BC.) Since that was more than 4000 years after the latest date at which the copper ornament found in Iraq was made, that pretty well shows that the Bobble is full of horsiepoop.

All of what you said is based upon the assumption that modern dating science is accurate. There are LOTS of documents which refute modern dating methods, and prove it's inaccuracy.
Personally, I don't have enough "faith" to believe in modern science's dating methods. If anything, science has the worst track record in regards to accuracy and it's ability to produce truth.
As little as 100 years ago, scientists believed they were accurate, and they put their faith in their scientific analysis and theories. Obviously, science has changed a lot since then, and a lot of what they accepted as "fact" then, is now considered nothing but myth and old dis-proven theory.
For thousands of years scientists believed they had the facts. And time and time and time again they are proven wrong by subsequent generations.
How are you so sure we are any different?

Today, modern scientists continue to preach "fact", and portray their theories and methods as "fact". And they have a very convincing set of "facts" to prove their theories.
But what makes you think that today's scientists have reached perfect knowledge?
What makes you think that today's science is not just another link in the history of science that will never be proven wrong?
How do you know that one day, science will discover a new dating method that will disprove all the preceded it?
What makes you think that modern science will not one day be viewed as ancient mythological dis-proven science?
How do you know that one day people won't look back to our day and ask, "Did they really believe that?"
"How could they believe that in the face of ancient documents that plainly said otherwise?"
Just as people were convinced that the world was flat, we are convinced that the world is 6 billion years old. How do you know that one day modern-day science won't be viewed as ancient, long-gone crazy beliefs?

I don't take scientific evidence on faith, only bible-thumpers like you peddle that horseshit. However, all that horsiepoop in the bible its expected to be taken on faith--there's not a shred of evidence for any of it, and much of it is flatly contradicted. It's obvious that you know nothing about the methods of naturalistic science. Scientists don't "preach fact." What generally happens is that a scientist publishes her work, and some idiot journalist takes it, warps it into something sensationalistic, and then runs with it. Just like the bible-thumpers do.

If you wand to embrace superstition and believe in fairy tales, help yourself. Don't condemn me because i won't join you.

Why don't you give any examples? Is it because you're frightened that if parts of the Bible are proven to be wrong that means it all is, and you can't face that possibility?

It's like when the Pope made Gallileo retract and say that the Sun went round the Earth not the other way round. If you think that in thousands of years time scientists will prove the Pope right you've seriously lost the plot.

Hey.
Ok, they didn't have over two sets of teeth. Otzi didn't have very good teeth either.
Studies show he lived to be middle aged. Some believe he could have been as young as 30, others as old as 55. He actually lived rather long to what everyone else was at the time.

With no offense, i please ask you to respect religions. Modern day science can say Otzi lived to become middle aged, someone was wrong, maybe they where right, only Otzi can tell and that's not gonna happen. Pull up some evidence. His evidence is the bible :-).

Why should we respect religions? I understand respecting people, but ideas? Including bad ones? Why respect them?

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