Quote from: BADecker on December 31, 2014, 06:46:08 AM

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Quote from: oprahwindfury on December 18, 2014, 12:11:52 PM

This is not meant to be an offensive post, I am genuinely curious as to why Africa is so far behind the rest of the world.

The Roman Empire had running water, amenities, reliable shelter and clothing for its entire populace 2,000 years ago. 2,000 FRIGGIN YEARS AGO. They created art, sculptures, vast architecture using 2,000 YEAR OLD technology yet if you go to a random area in Africa, it is plagued by poverty, destitution and just overall squalor.

Why is Africa 2000+ years behind the rest of the world and what can be done to correct this??

2000 years ago when there was Roman Empire it was Ancient age and not Stone age.

I think oprahwindfury did not mean the literal Stone Age. I think that he (she? it?) meant, simply, a time long ago. After all, he says "2000+" which makes the time inexact.

Everybody who is anybody knows that the Stone Age is a fictional time developed as part of a scientific religion to pull distraught people from Christianity (and other religions) into mental political control of university scholars so that they can get their funding easier. It supposedly ended about 2000 years before God created the universe, some 6,000 years ago.

Funny enough 6000 is a number not to be found in the Bible at all. 666 is Wink

http://realtruth.org/articles/090203-006-science.html

When you read the Bible the word Eon is also present in it too.
http://www.saviourofall.org/Tracts/Eons2.html

Eon is a tiny bit more than 6000 years...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_time_scale#Terminology

While the word "eon" is NOT found in the King James or New International translations of the Bible, some translations might have this word - https://www.biblegateway.com/.

The dictionary definition of the word "eon" might be usable in some areas of Bible translation, since there are several meanings for this word. It seems that the translators have avoided this word, instead using words that better describe what is meant by the Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/eon?s=t:

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eon
[ee-uh n, ee-on]

noun
1.
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
2.
the largest division of geologic time, comprising two or more eras.
3.
Astronomy. one billion years.

If anyone would like to see that the earth is almost exactly 6,000 years old (+/- less than 1%), Biblically, go here http://www.albatrus.org/english/theology/creation/biblical_age_earth.htm for a more detailed look at the quote, below:

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Biblical Age of Earth

by David V. Bassett, M.S.

Beginning with the archeological landmark event of the fall of Jerusalem (which has now been corrected to 588 B.C., instead of 586-587 B.C.) and counting backwards the prophesied number of years between this event and the division of Solomon's kingdom (390 yrs. + 40 yrs., according to Ezekiel 4:4-7), brings us to 1018 B.C.

From the end of Solomon's 40-year reign to the start of the Temple in the 4th year of his reign takes us back another 37 years to 1055 B.C.

From the start of Solomon's Temple "in the 480th year" (1 Kings 6:1) back to the Exodus from Egypt (hence 479 years previous) brings us to near 1534 B.C.

From the Exodus out of Egypt to Abraham's entering Canaan from Haran was exactly 430 years to the day (Gen 12:10/ Exodus 12:40/ Gal 3:17), thus around 1964 B.C.

Since Abraham entered Canaan at age 75 (Gen 12:4), he was born approximately 2039 B.C.

From Abraham's birth to Noah's grandson (Shem's son), Arpachshad's birth, 2 years after the Flood started, was 290 years (Gen 11:11-26), this places the onset of the Flood at around 2331 B.C. [definitely 4,300-4,400 years ago].

The genealogy of Genesis 5:3-32 precludes any gaps due to its tight chronological structure and gives us 1,656 years between Creation and the Flood, thus bringing Creation Week back to near 3987 B.C. or approximately 4000 B.C.

Therefore, the biblical age of the Earth (using Scripture itself as a guide) is 6,000 years !! Mankind did not evolve 4 million years ago on an Earth which is 4.5 billion years old in a universe which was "big-banged" into existence 18-20 billion years in the distant past. Jesus Christ, the Creator Incarnate, said He made mankind male and female in the beginning (Mark 10:6), and that when the heavens and the earth were commanded into being (Gen 1:1), they "stood up together" (Isa 48:13) not billions of years apart !!

http://www.biblica.com/en-us/bible/bible-faqs/in-what-language-was-the-bible-first-written/

http://www.auburn.edu/~allenkc/eon1.html

We can certainly go back and forth for the next 2000 years. Or until bitcointalk.org's servers get destroyed by the Powers That Be....

But I am guilty of derailing somebody's thread, so I will stop right here.