Here's one from a website on Sumerian Astrology that claims to show just such a knowledge.
Posted on 02/23/2010 8:21:35 AM PST by Palter
“You’d need a telescope to see the rings.”
Exactly my point. And while Uranus can be seen with the naked eye, even it wasn’t discovered until 1781. Neptune and Pluto are out of the question. The claim by some that the Sumerians had this knowledge by any method is nonsense. As far as Copernicus goes, I’m not sure even he believed what he had devised (he waited until he lay on his deathbed to announce his findings). The development of the Copernican System is one of the primal monuments of human ingenuity.
Serious question:
How do they know the temple was built 11,500 years ago?
I know about carbon dating and such, but that just tells you how old the rock is, not when somebody built something with it.
'And because those artifacts closely resemble others from nearby sites previously carbon-dated to about 9000 B.C., Schmidt and co-workers estimate that Gobekli Tepe's stone structures are the same age. Limited carbon dating undertaken by Schmidt at the site confirms this assessment.'
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'In fact, research at other sites in the region has shown that within 1,000 years of Gobekli Tepe's construction, settlers had corralled sheep, cattle and pigs. And, at a prehistoric village just 20 miles away, geneticists found evidence of the world's oldest domesticated strains of wheat; radiocarbon dating indicates agriculture developed there around 10,500 years ago, or just five centuries after Gobekli Tepe's construction.'
Fascinating.
“As far as Copernicus goes, I’m not sure even he believed what he had devised (he waited until he lay on his deathbed to announce his findings).”
I understand he delayed to avoid ex-communication, but I defer to those with a better understanding of Roman Catholism.
Yo Stormer—I agree with you. How could you read what I wrote and think othwerwise?
Here's one from a website on Sumerian Astrology that claims to show just such a knowledge.
Sorry - I always think otherwise.
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