Civilization, agricultural revolution, writing, and reliable historical texts are only a few thousand years old

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Responses 4 Fallacies contained in this claim 5 External Links 6 Related claims 7 Acknowledgments

Claim

Civilization, agricultural revolution, writing, and reliable historical texts are only a few thousand years old.

Source

• Anon, 1985. Life--How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or By Creation? Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., p. 97

Responses

1. Creationists fail to realize that archaeological evidence for agriculture goes back well over 10,000 years.
2. Creationists fail to realize, or recognize that civilization, including the formation of cities such as Çatalhöyük, predates writing by several millenia.
3. Speaking of reliable historical records, Sumerian and Babylonian historical records fail to mention a world-destroying flood ruining their cities, nor do Babylonian records ever mention the workers of its ziggurat suddenly speaking new and strange languages before leaving in droves from the city.
4. It wouldn't matter if it was true. They can be a few thousand years old on an ancient earth in a species that evolved millions of years ago.
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Fallacies contained in this claim

• Misrepresenting the Facts
• Inconsistency (flood issues)
• Red Herring

External Links

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Related claims

• Were you there?
• Interpreting evidence is not the same as observation
• Humans are a few thousand years old, not millions
• Theory of human evolution was based on wishful thinking from the beginning
• If we're descended from apes, why are there still apes around?
• W. F. Libby was surprised that history goes back only 5,000 years

Acknowledgments