I believe that is true to a certain extent. I believe the Bible when it says people were scattered all over the world from the Tower of Babel. Further, I believe that when the earth was divided in Peleg's time is when a RAPID "continental drift" occurred, brought on by the aftermath of whatever caused the WORLD-WIDE flood.
Then I believe that the eastern part of America eventually experienced waves of people from Europe/etc and that the western part of America eventually had its own waves of people from Asia/Polynesia. (I believe they all came by boat along coastlines and island-to-island.) "Foreign" stock and local stock would have then married and merged the different lines to form distinctive Amerind tribes.
That's why I find all of this so fascinating. It seems to confirm my own beliefs. Of course, you other guys will be adamant in saying it confirms yours. :0)
(I was just expressing my beliefs. I'm not smart enough to debate the issue. So please, let's not hijack blam's posting and turn this into an evolutionist/creationist thread.)
Doncha just hate when that happens? The mental reboot alone could kill ya.
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I think there is another agenda at work among the Clovis firsters.
The Clovis artifacts indicate a hunting culture that killed mammoths and giant ground sloths and other mega-fauna that went extinct approximately 10,000 years ago. By making the Clovis people the first humans to reach the Americas they can BLAME them for the extinction. This is the "Evil Human Beings kill off innocent wildlife" approach to history and ecology.
If, however, they were only members of a large population that had been here for millennia and mankind had lived peaceably with the mega-fauna, then humans cannot be blamed for the extinctions merely because it is human nature to extinct any non-domesticated animals in their vicinity. This does not comport with the accepted wisdom that all human interaction with nature is at nature's detriment.
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this appears to be the oldest FR topic about Al Goodyear:
Site Sheds Light on Human Arrival
Source: AP via Yahoo
Published: May 26, 2001
Posted on 05/27/2001 06:25:12 PDT by sarcasm
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ALLENDALE, S.C. (AP) - Some chipped tools and stone flakes found on a hill above a remote and wooded stretch of the Savannah River may show humans arrived in America about 3,000 years earlier than first thought.
Researchers have generally accepted that the first humans came to America as primitive hunters from Asia 12,000 years ago. But the South Carolina finds are the latest evidence that the continent was inhabited 15,000 years ago, well before the end of the last Ice Age around 10,000 years ago, archaeologists say.
"It is now reasonable to think of humans living on this landscape perhaps 15,000 to 20,000 years ago," said University of South Carolina archaeologist Albert Goodyear, who is helping to excavate the site. "It's the dawn of a new chapter in what was already a good book."
Coupled with mounting evidence of early human activity from scattered locations including a gravel pit in Virginia, a cave in Pennsylvania and a bog in Chile, the stone tools excavated in South Carolina suggest that human populations were spread across both continents 15,000 years ago.
Last year, a University of Oklahoma archaeologist suggested some broken stone tools found in the northwestern part of the state could be at least 22,000 years old.
The sites are so far apart that the earliest visitors could only have arrived earlier than once thought, or reached the Americas by more than one route, some researches theorize.
Goodyear and his team of archaeologists first uncovered the tools three years ago along a section of the river in Allendale County owned by Clariant, a Swiss-based chemical company.
Microscopic analysis of the stone chips confirmed that they could only have been created by human activity. The area may have served as a sort of workshop, where prehistoric people made the implements they needed for working wood and scraping animal hides.