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December 27th, 2010 by Joel

400,000 years of human existence in Israel?

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Eight human teeth dating back as far as 400,000 years ago and found at the prehistoric Qesem Cave near Rosh Ha’ayin – discovered recently by Tel Aviv University researchers – are “the world’s earliest evidence” of modern man (Homo sapiens).

Until now, remains of humans from only 200,000 years ago have been found in Africa, and the accepted approach has been that modern man originated on that continent….

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The Qesem Cave is dated between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago, and archeologists working there believe that the findings indicate significant changes in the behavior of ancient man. This period of time was crucial in the history of mankind from cultural and biological perspectives, and the fact that teeth of modern man were discovered indicates that these changes are apparently related to evolutionary changes taking place at that time, they maintained.

Homo sapiens lived in Eretz Yisrael 400,000 years ago.

Interesting to say the least.

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Joel Landon Watts is a Masters of Theological Studies student with a focus in Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific ideals of the past century. Currently, he is a TA for Old Testament at United Theological Seminary under Dr. Vivian Johnson, Associate Professor of Old Testament. His first book, Rhetorical Strategies of the Evangelist: Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark, is expected to be published by Wipf and Stock early next year. He is currently co-editing a book on moving from Fear to Faith (Energion, 2013).

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4 Responses to “400,000 years of human existence in Israel?”
  1. “The Qesem Cave is dated between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago, …”

    Darwin revealed this to them in a dream.

      • A few days ago I was at a party and the engineers helped correct the accountant in his understanding. We simply compared accounting to forecasting company revenues 1 million years into the future. Of course only a moron would believe the 1 million year extrapolation. Yet should we call them all accounting?

        In the atheist religion, everything in science, just as for the sleazy businessman, the forecasts and the daily accounting are the same. For those of us who are professionals, we can never understand how lay people can’t see the difference between true science and the atheist fool’s science.

        • You have serious problems, dude. Seriously.

          The ability to measure age of materials is not a forecast or an extrapolation. Is it 110% exact science that can measure to the year and day of origin? Of course not, but the dating methods have never purported to be that precise.

          You must be one of those people who believe the Baby Jeebus himself placed objects like this around the world as a test of faith or for his own puerile amusement. Regardless, your inane ramblings are only vaguely coherent.

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