Post by ResLight on Feb 17, 2014 16:15:22 GMT -5
The New York Times is carrying an article entitled:
Camels Had No Business in Genesis
The claim is often presented:
According to the article,
One might wonder how the that the 10th century BC is centuries after the patriarchs lived and decades after the kingdom of David. According to the Bible, the flood of Noah's day was in the third century BC. Indeed, according to the Bible, man was not created until the fifth century BC, and thus had not yet even been created in the 10th century BC.
www.biblechronology.org/charts.html
Furthermore, radiocarbon dating is not 100% adequate due to the fact the flood of Noah's day changed the earth from the climate that existed before the flood of Noah's day. With the removal of canopy around the earth, it would take some time for an ozone field to be formed around the earth. Thus, the Bible indicates that there would not have been a constant to base such readings on until quite sometime after the flood.
At any rate, unless these archaeologists can travel back in time and have knowledge of what was and was on on the entire planet at any given time, they really have no way of knowing when the first camels came to be in existence, or if and when camels came to be used in the Mediterranean area. Even if they could not find evidence of their use in the time of Abraham, such lack of evidence does not prove that Abraham could not indeed have such animals.
A response to the claims
Camels Had No Business in Genesis
The claim is often presented:
Camels appear in stories of early Jewish patriarchs in the Bible, even though it was before the animals’ time, evidence that writing or editing of the book happened long after the events it narrates.
According to the article,
The archaeologists, Erez Ben-Yosef and Lidar Sapir-Hen, used radiocarbon dating to pinpoint the earliest known domesticated camels in Israel to the last third of the 10th century B.C. — centuries after the patriarchs lived and decades after the kingdom of David, according to the Bible.
One might wonder how the that the 10th century BC is centuries after the patriarchs lived and decades after the kingdom of David. According to the Bible, the flood of Noah's day was in the third century BC. Indeed, according to the Bible, man was not created until the fifth century BC, and thus had not yet even been created in the 10th century BC.
www.biblechronology.org/charts.html
Furthermore, radiocarbon dating is not 100% adequate due to the fact the flood of Noah's day changed the earth from the climate that existed before the flood of Noah's day. With the removal of canopy around the earth, it would take some time for an ozone field to be formed around the earth. Thus, the Bible indicates that there would not have been a constant to base such readings on until quite sometime after the flood.
At any rate, unless these archaeologists can travel back in time and have knowledge of what was and was on on the entire planet at any given time, they really have no way of knowing when the first camels came to be in existence, or if and when camels came to be used in the Mediterranean area. Even if they could not find evidence of their use in the time of Abraham, such lack of evidence does not prove that Abraham could not indeed have such animals.
A response to the claims
