{"id":13101,"date":"2020-11-17T18:43:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T18:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinkingaccuratelyeducation.com\/?p=13101"},"modified":"2020-11-17T18:48:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T18:48:06","slug":"cro-magnon-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinkingaccuratelyeducation.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/17\/cro-magnon-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Cro-Magnon Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Cro-Magnon Man<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A Biblical Analysis<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A friend told me other day that they did not know whether they could believe the Bible, and they mentioned Cro-Magnon Man as evidence that the Bible could not be taken seriously. After all, isn’t Cro-Magnon Man a million years old?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I looked, for starters, at the old Encyclopedia Britannica my mother bought for us in 1973. This is what it says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“CRO-MAGNON MAN, the name originally given to a small number of human skeletons of prehistoric age found in a rock shelter at Cro-Magnon near Les Eyzies in the Dordogne department of France.”<\/p>Encyclopedia Britannica 1973, volume 6, p. 795<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Encyclopedia went on to say, “The skeletons themselves were fragmentary, but three crania were fairly well preserved…” and “proved to be typical of a race<\/em><\/strong> widespread throughout Europe at this time, most common in France, but stretching north to Belgium and from Wales to eastern Europe.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What did they mean, when they used the word, “race”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authors went on to say: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In classification he (Cro-Magnon Man) falls into the ‘caucasoid<\/em><\/strong>‘ subspecies of modern man…(and) only had a few characteristics which would serve to distinguish them from some modern western and north Europeans.”<\/p>Encyclopedia Britannica 1973, p. 796<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So–all that being said–how do we know how old these fragmentary skeletons actually are?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Encylopedia says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Radiocarbon age determinations from certain sites in France suggest that the earliest known Cro-Magnon skeletal remains date from about 330,ooo years B.C…”<\/p>Encyclopedia Britannica 1973, p. 796<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

But one thing you should think about: Radiocarbon dating CANNOT be used to date remains that are thought to be 330,000 years old.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Samples that are\u00a0older\u00a0than about 40,000 years are extremely difficult to date due to tiny levels of carbon-14. Over 60,000 years old, and they can\u2019t be dated at all.”<\/p>National Geographic<\/a>, JULY 12, 2019<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Biblical Analysis A friend told me other day that they did not know whether they could believe the Bible, and they mentioned Cro-Magnon Man as evidence that the Bible could not be taken seriously. After all, isn’t Cro-Magnon Man a million years old? I looked, for starters, at the old Encyclopedia Britannica my mother … <\/p>\n

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