Satellites Expose 8,000 Years of Civilization

ananyo writes "By combining spy-satellite photos obtained in the 1960s with modern multispectral images and digital maps of Earth's surface, researchers have created a new method for mapping large-scale patterns of human settlement. The approach was used to map some 14,000 settlement sites spanning eight millennia in 23,000 square kilometres of northeastern Syria — part of the fertile crescent of the Middle East. Traditional archaeology has focused on the big features such as cities or palaces but the new technique uncovers networks of small settlements, revealing migration patterns and sparking renewed speculation about the importance of water to city development."

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[ElectricTurtle]

While I have been apostate for more than a decade, I can put on my 'Bible Brainwash Hat' (TM) and tell you exactly how they deny it: the light and other EM radiation from those stars was created in mid-'flight' to give the universe the appearance of age. You really can't win arguing science with somebody whose foundation is 'it's magic!' That's why I focus on moral/ethical problems when messing with theists.

Beer

[Anonymous Coward]

You can't make beer without water.

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[rthille]

Right. God, being all powerful, could create all the evidence for an old universe. In fact, the universe could have been created a minute ago with all our memories and everything. Of course, that mean that God was a deceiver, and no different from Satan.

Really, it's all ridiculous bullshit, and if you don't get to children when they are young and vulnerable, you've got a much much harder time making someone believe it.

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[Black Parrot]

Except that the Bible says that God is revealed through his creation as well. This would seem to indicate that God wouldn't make things appear to be a way they are not.

Yeah, it astonishes me that some creationists claim that God planted fossils to fool people.

And of course, would never consider that God could have written a book to fool people.