Comments | sharonafyre: Huh

sharonafyre

Huh

Oct 12, 2008 15:14

The earliest known written literature, the epics of Sumer, date back to 1750-2000 BC, and the earlist extant samples of Sumerian writing (receipts, contracts, and business accounting, mostly, but also adoption records, laws and regulations, and other legal/transactional records) date back two or three thousand years before that (e.g., 7000 years ( Read more... )

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mavia October 13 2008, 06:41:13 UTC

Your general point is right, but your math is off. :) The fundies believe Creation was around 4000 BC, thus 6000 years ago.

sharonafyre October 13 2008, 15:39:00 UTC

My bad.

I was just going by things I'd heard said in the media (that humans and dinosaurs walked the earth together 4000 yrs ago). I didn't research the fundies.

So, according to your fundie lore, that means that God created the word and the clay tablets, laws, and legal/commercial transactions between (only) 1000 years before or at approximately the same time He created dinosaurs, humans, and the rest of the earth and universe.