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NNN0LHI

(67,190 posts) Fri Jun 29, 2012, 08:50 AM Jun 2012

Bad news for the flat earthers. Pottery in China found to be 20,000 years old

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120629_14.html

Jun. 29, 2012 - Updated 11:48 UTC

Chinese and American archaeologists say they have confirmed that pottery fragments found in China are 20,000 years old, making them the world's oldest known pottery.

The findings were published on Friday in the US journal "Science".

The pottery fragments were discovered in the Xianrendong cave in Jiangxi Province, southern China. Radiocarbon dating shows they were made around 20,000 years ago.

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Bad news for the flat earthers. Pottery in China found to be 20,000 years old (Original Post) NNN0LHI Jun 2012 OP

Early Pottery at 20,000 Years Ago in Xianrendong Cave, China FarCenter Jun 2012 #1

Carbon dating is a liah Mopar151 Jun 2012 #2

God just put it there to fool people into not believing in him so he can send them to hell. denverbill Jun 2012 #3

LOL Xyzse Jun 2012 #4

Evidence has never changed a closed mind. SoutherDem Jun 2012 #5

Japanese archaeologists are not going to like this Lydia Leftcoast Jun 2012 #6

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)

1. Early Pottery at 20,000 Years Ago in Xianrendong Cave, China

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Fri Jun 29, 2012, 08:57 AM

Jun 2012

The invention of pottery introduced fundamental shifts in human subsistence practices and sociosymbolic behaviors. Here, we describe the dating of the early pottery from Xianrendong Cave, Jiangxi Province, China, and the micromorphology of the stratigraphic contexts of the pottery sherds and radiocarbon samples. The radiocarbon ages of the archaeological contexts of the earliest sherds are 20,000 to 19,000 calendar years before the present, 2000 to 3000 years older than other pottery found in East Asia and elsewhere. The occupations in the cave demonstrate that pottery was produced by mobile foragers who hunted and gathered during the Late Glacial Maximum. These vessels may have served as cooking devices. The early date shows that pottery was first made and used 10 millennia or more before the emergence of agriculture.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6089/1696

Mopar151

(10,014 posts)

2. Carbon dating is a liah

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Fri Jun 29, 2012, 09:34 AM

Jun 2012

Don't say nuthin about it in the Bah-bull, so it's a liah

denverbill

(11,489 posts)

3. God just put it there to fool people into not believing in him so he can send them to hell.

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Fri Jun 29, 2012, 09:34 AM

Jun 2012

Just like the light from stars billions of light years away and dinosaur fossils.

You people and your 'science'.

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)

4. LOL

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Fri Jun 29, 2012, 09:45 AM

Jun 2012

You know Young Earth Creationists will not believe that any way.

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Young-earth creationists believe that the creation days of Genesis 1 were six literal (24-hour) days which occurred 6,000–12,000 years ago.7 They believe that about 2,300–3,300 years before Christ, the surface of the earth was radically rearranged by Noah’s Flood. All land animals and birds not in Noah’s Ark (along with many sea creatures) perished; many of which were subsequently buried in the Flood sediments. Therefore, creationists believe that the global, catastrophic Flood was responsible for most (but not all) of the rock layers and fossils. In other words, some rock layers and possibly some fossils were deposited before the Flood, while other layers and fossils were produced in postdiluvian localized catastrophic sedimentation events or processes).

Frickin ridiculous.

ROFLMAO, meaning Jesus could not have ridden a Dinosaur since it got buried in the flood sediments.