the Egyptian Sphinx is at LEAST 10,000 years old

[MaLi]

Even if evidence shows the Sphinx is at least 10,000 years old, it doesn't disprove religion. The same folks that built the Sphinx, pyramids, etc... were all very religious and practiced it.

Without their teachings, "Hebrews" don't become Hebrews since:
Moses was learned in the ways of the Egyptian (He went to Egyptian schools and gained the highest forms of knowledge and education)
42 negative confessions predate, and birthed the 10 commandments
Hebrews adopted the ritual of circumcision from the Egyptians

And im sure there are plenty other examples I'm forgetting.

The Sphinx being 10,000 years old may disprove the 6,000 year old earth theory, but even that isn't in the bible. Theologians like James Ussher basically came to the 6,000 year old earth theory based on their interpretation of the bible.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

The Sphinx being 10,000 years old may disprove the 6,000 year old earth theory, but even that isn't in the bible.

Is that what he was referring to by 'religious fanatics'? I don't think there are any Young Earth Creationists posting on this entire site.

Some people are pretty much convinced that if you hold a religious view, you HAVE to be an extremist of one sort or the other and/or adhere to one strict interpretation which turns out to be a straw-man of their own invention.

Then again, I had a discussion with an atheist who tried to prove Santa Claus may exist.

Lack of critical thinking is not limited to the religious.​

 

[yo moms]

Is that what he was referring to by 'religious fanatics'? I don't think there are any Young Earth Creationists posting on this entire site.

Some people are pretty much convinced that if you hold a religious view, you HAVE to be an extremist of one sort or the other and/or adhere to one strict interpretation which turns out to be a straw-man of their own invention.

Then again, I had a discussion with an atheist who tried to prove Santa Claus may exist.

Lack of critical thinking is not limited to the religious.​

i was born an athiest and santa claus is a magic mushroom. specifically the amanita muscaria species of mushroom. the red and white ones.

 

[A.V.]

Well, you see, uhhmm, the way time was interpreted in the book uhhm, Oh! You got to carry the 1 and umm............Y'all goin' to hell, tho

flawless

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

i was born an athiest

No one is born an atheist since newborns have no capacity to think.

If you wish to push the issue, they lack DIS-belief as well......like rocks, chairs, pencils, etc.
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[yo moms]

No one is born an atheist since newborns have no capacity to think.

If you wish to push the issue, they lack DIS-belief as well......like rocks, chairs, pencils, etc.
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i was born an athiest.

 

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

Do people really believe the Earth is 6,000 years old? Where did that come from? Is it in the Bible?

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

Do people really believe the Earth is 6,000 years old? Where did that come from? Is it in the Bible?

i don't know where that nonsense comes from but i truly feel sorry for anyone who believes that.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

i was born an athiest.

I was born a poor, 'Black' child.

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[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

i don't know where that nonsense comes from but i truly feel sorry for anyone who believes that.

A Rabbi named Jose ben Halafta back in the 2nd Century.
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[RAX 010]

Religious fanatics based their info on faith....so its really null and void arguing facts veses their beliefs

the sooner you realize this the better off you will be...

and the more time you will have ....doing something constructive

 

[Knicksman20]

If anyone is interested here's one of the most detailed documentaries on the pyramids in Egypt & other structures worldwide.

It's a bit long but it shows some of the level of detail it took to build them. No aliens or conspiracy in this vid:

 

[observe]

I don't know. In the meantime, when you get a chance, you might wanna spend some time reading through this......

http://www.davidpbillington.net/sphinx2.html

This is a compilation of all the evidence gathered since 1994 on the subject. In short, rainfall is not a significant factor and the majority of research is of the opinion that Schoch's data and methodology is flawed.
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That guy isnt a Egyptologist..what does he know?

1. For his outline of the enclosure wall, see Herbert Ricke, "Der Harmachistempel des Chephren in Giseh," Beitraege zur Aegyptischen Bauforschung und Altertumskunde, Vol. 10 (Wiesbaden, 1970), p. 5 and also pp. 4-6. Enclosure walls around other tombs and temples often did not enclose the space in back, only the sides and front. The enclosed space in front often varied in size but the space on each side was normally symmetrical. Ricke gave an outline of the Khafra temple enclosure wall with its north side at an oblique angle parallel to the finished Khafra Valley Temple. But other representations of the northeast corner of the wall show it as a right angle, symmetric to the southeast corner. See Mark Lehner, "The Sphinx," in Zahi Hawass, ed., The Treasures of the Pyramids (Vercelli, Italy: Barnes and Noble/White Star, 2003), pp. 176-177.

2. For diagrams of the first and second stages, see Herbert Ricke, "Der Harmachistempel des Chephren in Giseh," pp. 11, 17.

3. However, it should be noted that the second 1995 radiocarbon survey did not present its results in the terms of the 1984 study, so the results are not easily compared. West has proposed that the base of the Khafra Pyramid might be older than the superstructure but a case for redating the base needs to be developed.

4. See again Rainer Stadelmann, "The Great Sphinx of Giza," in Zahi Hawass, ed., Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Egyptologists, Cairo, 2000 (American University in Cairo Press, Cairo and New York, 2003), pp. 464-469.

5. Kathryn A. Bard, "The Egyptian Predynastic: A Review of the Evidence," Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 21, No. 3 (Fall 1994), pp. 265-288.

6. F. Wendorf and R. Schild, "Nabta Playa and its role in northeastern African prehistory," Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Vol. 17 (1998), pp. 97-123. For a summary, see also F. Wendorf et al., "Megaliths and neolithic astronomy in southern Egypt," Nature, No. 392 (1998), pp. 488-490.

7. Emma Young, "Pharaohs from the Stone Age," The New Scientist, Vol. No. 2586 (13 January 2007), pp. 5-9.

He just read some shyt

 

[observe]

The Sphinx is not suffering from water erosion due to rainfall. One wall (the west) is suffering from water erosion due to rainfall runoff. People are under the impression that the plateau the Sphinx sits on is flat, but it actually slopes to the East.....

<=====West Wall is behind the sculpture. Water flows down the wall towards the Sphinx.

There is more than enough rainfall in Egypt to account for the amount of erosion found on the West Wall of the enclosure. The erosion on the Sphinx itself is due to there being different strengths of limestone in it's construction. The top and the bottom parts are much stronger than the middle part which makes up most of the body of the Sphinx, and is badly eroded by a number of factors: sand, wind, water, temperature fluctuations, etc.

I know I pretty much deaded this argument a while ago and don't want to go through all the points that prove the Sphinx is only about 4500 years old. IIRC, the geologist responsible for disputing that age is Robert Schoch.​

Once again it hasn't rained like that in egypt for 1000s of years..like since 8000 bc

 

[DaddyTime]

#blackexcellence BC edition. So much stuff around that can disprove religion that they have to come with some BS like "Oh, it's there to test your faith" or something

if i got hit with that i'm done the debate, point blank