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Ancient Discovery In Greece May Completely Rewrite The Human Story
Daily Caller ^ | June 07, 2023 9:59 AM ET | KAY SMYTHE

Posted on 06/07/2023 9:15:34 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: SunkenCiv

I used to be a amateur but now I am a pro-crastinator.............


21 posted on 06/07/2023 10:52:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Lake Living

God must have gotten a chuckle out of omitting giant sloths, but including all kinds of bears and large cats.


22 posted on 06/07/2023 10:52:48 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Red Badger

Excellent! The next meeting is, uh, oh, they haven’t set the date yet. And I haven’t installed the calendar app...


23 posted on 06/07/2023 10:55:52 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: gundog

Sounds like our zoo...IIRC there was a big one in Iraq when we were there.


24 posted on 06/07/2023 10:57:03 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Yo-Yo

“ How did Noah collect the kangaroos in Australia? ”

That was done via a Zoom meeting.


25 posted on 06/07/2023 10:58:41 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: Yo-Yo

Marsupials were once present on every continent. The only living remnant are the opossums today, but there were others in the past.

So instead we might ask “why did the kangaroos only survive in Australia?”


26 posted on 06/07/2023 10:58:49 AM PDT by Boogieman
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27 posted on 06/07/2023 10:59:23 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Lake Living

I’ll have to watch those later. Thanks for the info, though!


28 posted on 06/07/2023 10:59:39 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Yo-Yo
How did Noah collect the kangaroos in Australia?

My guess would be they hopped on board , besides the Bible told me so.

29 posted on 06/07/2023 10:59:42 AM PDT by piroque ("When the SHTF I'm gonna hunker down until all those idiots kill each other. " )
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To: piroque

We have elephants, hippos, monkeys, rhinos and sloths so God didn’t forget anything. Just like dogs they come in all different sizes. Mocking Gods Word is not something you want to do. He hasn’t told us everything obviously but He is God and Noah did happen.


30 posted on 06/07/2023 11:09:49 AM PDT by Cowgirl
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To: Sacajaweau
Gee...could Noah be a fairy tale of sorts.

I am a Christian and I believe the Bible. However, I also believe that much of the Bible, especially the old testament, is more allegory than history.

There is a lot of evidence that "Noah's" flood actually occurred, but it was only in the "known" world of the Mediterranean basin. A land dam at the straits of Dover gave away, and flooded the Mediterranean sea, burying many ancient cultures that lived around the old shoreline.

31 posted on 06/07/2023 11:10:23 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: SunkenCiv

This ain’t me doing my usual snark but asking a question for realzies.

Didn’t the ancient Greeks write about a people in that area that was there before them? The Pelasgis (or however it’s spelled)?

I recall reading something about how the Greeks credited them with teaching how to build large stone walls and such.


32 posted on 06/07/2023 11:11:47 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Yo-Yo

We’ve had floods since the beginning of time. That’s not a big deal. A really, really big boat with two “reproducing” mates of every species on earth? Pleeeeez...


33 posted on 06/07/2023 11:13:14 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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LOL this is the best version (Roger Whittaker)
34 posted on 06/07/2023 11:14:38 AM PDT by wafflehouse ("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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To: Grimmy

Herodotus credits the Phoenicians with the introduction of alphabetic writing. Prior to that, the use of Linear B (Greek), Linear A (non-Greek, probably Carian or related language), and perhaps even cuneiform (the writing system used for international diplomatic and possibly commercial communication for thousands of years) was around for a long period.

The Pelasgians are referred to in ancient writing, but there’s no clear idea who they were. I’m not one to say they never existed, it seems likely that they were an earlier coat of paint — or more than one — and probably also Indo-European speakers.


35 posted on 06/07/2023 11:18:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: Cowgirl

just showing your ass with that comment... maybe I should have told that most dating of these finds is the use of the “mud” line in the earth’s crust .


36 posted on 06/07/2023 11:19:58 AM PDT by piroque ("When the SHTF I'm gonna hunker down until all those idiots kill each other. " )
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To: Grimmy
There are various mentions in Greek sources of the Pelasgians but they are rather mysterious. One scholar tried to equate them with the Philistines but I don't think anyone else agreed with him. Their language may be related to Etruscan. The island of Lemnos had a non-Greek-speaking population until fairly late when it was conquered by the Athenians and a couple of inscriptions have been found there in a language similar to Etruscan (but written in the Greek alphabet).

A lot of place names in Greece are pre-Greek: Athens, Corinth, Knossos, Parnassos, etc. There are also many loan words in Greek which seem to come from the same language. One of them is plinthos, "brick," which may indicate that the Greeks learned how to build with bricks from the earlier population.

37 posted on 06/07/2023 11:21:37 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: piroque

Like we should believe any institution after all the lies they’ve told. Just go get vaccinated.


38 posted on 06/07/2023 11:25:45 AM PDT by Cowgirl
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To: Cowgirl

go climb back into your bottle,,,, bye


39 posted on 06/07/2023 11:28:18 AM PDT by piroque ("When the SHTF I'm gonna hunker down until all those idiots kill each other. " )
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To: Sacajaweau
We’ve had floods since the beginning of time. That’s not a big deal. A really, really big boat with two “reproducing” mates of every species on earth? Pleeeeez...

"Noah?"

"NOAH!"

"What?"

"It's the Lord, Noah."

"Riiiight"

"Noah, how long can you tread water?"

40 posted on 06/07/2023 12:07:09 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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