Fundie heads a flippin' : 8,000 year old building found in Israel

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PREHISTORIC BUILDING AND HIPPO BONES FOUND IN TEL AVIV

By Rossella Lorenzi | Mon Jan 11, 2010 01:02 PM ET

These are the remains of the earliest building ever found in Tel Aviv, according to Israel's Antiquities Authority.

Located on the northern bank of the Yarkon River, the building consists of at least three rooms and it is believed to be about 8,000 years old, when humans went from a nomadic existence of hunting to living in permanent settlements.

"This discovery is both important and surprising," archaeologist Ayelet Dayan, director of the excavation, said in the statement. "For the first time we have encountered evidence of permanent habitation that existed in the Tel Aviv region 8,000 years ago."

The archaeologists also uncovered other finds: a fragment of a base of a basalt bowl, pottery shards and animal remains, including hippopotamus bones and teeth that probably belonged to sheep or goat.

Abundant flint tools, such as sickle blades, as well as numerous flakes left over from the chipping of these implements, suggest that an ancient tool-making industry was thriving at the site.

more:

http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/prehistoric-building-and-hippo-bones-found-in-tel-aviv.html

[Richard D]

1. God put it there to test our faith . . .

. . . 6000 years ago.


:rofl: :rofl:

[BurtWorm]

2. It's actually where God lived before he created the earth.

You can see Jesus's nursery, where he used to teethe on hippo bones.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. You're WRONG! It was SATAN!!111elevens!!!111

The Great Deceiver placed those bones where he knew those nosey secular humanists would one day dig - planting seeds of doubt in the noggins of easily-duped, low-faith Christians. Now those pesky digging devil-worshipers, the gawdless media & everyone who believes their heresy are all going to HELL!!!

[ret5hd]

5. God's quite the trickster! And if you fall for it, you go to hell!!!

[tmyers09]

29. It seemed so plausible!

*falls through a trap door*

[name not needed]

27. ARCHAEOLOGY IS A TOOL OF THE DEVIL!!!1

[ThatsMyBarack]

4. "Fundie heads a flippin'".....

FIVE GOLD RINGS!!!! :rofl:

[Contrary1]

17. I'm giving a rec just on the title.

[DavidDvorkin]

6. I suppose the fundies will say the dating is incorrect

Just as they already do about fossils.

[hayu_lol]

8. Three rooms...hmmmm...

maybe an early day Circle K.

[guitar man]

22. Why not just ask

Larry King, hell, it may have been his starter home. :rofl:

[undeterred]

7. Adam and Eve's place

:hide:

[hootinholler]

10. I thought they had a rancher? n/t

[Wind Dancer]

12. LOL!!!! n/t

[hootinholler]

9. WHy on earth would a sheep or goat own hippopotamus bones and teeth?

"including hippopotamus bones and teeth that probably belonged to sheep or goat."

:rofl:

-Hoot

[jberryhill]

13. I had trouble with that as well....

Perhaps Bronze Age sheep and goats kept a collection of these things.

Who knows.

[undeterred]

14. Maybe ancient sheep went on safaris?

[jberryhill]

15. Prosthetics - advanced ancient veterinary prosthetics /nt

[Chellee]

21. I'm pretty sure there is a missing comma.

hippopotamus bones, and teeth that belonged to sheep or goat.

[arcadian]

11. The story is bogus.

No T. Rex bones were discovered.

[Lochloosa]

16. Sorry. The story is correct. They found footprints

[arcadian]

18. Jumpin' Josaphat!

I stand corrected!

[upi402]

19. You libs and your damn facts... there ya go again

:sarcasm:

[LeftishBrit]

20. Exciting - I love these discoveries of ancient habitations

(Of course, those who think the world is 6000 years old will find a way to dismiss the findings.)

[verges]

23. "?"

"hippopotamus bones and teeth that probably belonged to sheep or goat."
Why would a sheep or goat have hippopotomus bones or teeth?

[jmowreader]

25. Read for context

They found (hippo bones) and (teeth that probably belonged to sheep or goats).

We all know this story is a damn lie because God created the world 6000 years ago and if you don't like it...oh nevermind, people who think that are crazier than shithouse rats. BTW, where did they ever come up with the 6000-year figure?

[Jim Lane]

26. The 6,000-year figure comes from analyses of the Bible

The Bible gives the ages of some of the Old Testament figures, dates of the reigns of kings, and other historical dates. From these passages, some Christian scholars worked out the age of the Earth.

One of the best-known such efforts was the . According to Wikipedia, Bishop Ussher "deduced that the first day of creation began at nightfall preceding Sunday, October 23, 4004 BC ...." Other Biblical scholars performing similar analyses came up with ages for the universe that were in the same approximate ballpark.

[krispos42]

28. I bet those were dinosaur teeth

I envision a primative herder riding a velociraptor and herding anklysaurses...



:rofl:

[thereismore]

24. ANY kind of dating methods fail right about the 6000 year mark.

What else could it be. :crazy:

[Norrin Radd]

30. Yet another of John McCain's many homes.