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Re:Hebrew University Archaeologists Find 12th Dead Sea Scrol... by booleandilemma on Thursday February 09, 2017 @09:15AM (#13607030)
I'm sure there are lots of people associated with this discovery that would be happy to sweep those older documents under the rug and forget about them.
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Re:Hebrew University Archaeologists Find 12th Dead Sea Scrol... by easychewie on Thursday February 09, 2017 @09:34AM (#13607146)
Why? Does age somehow imply truth value?
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Re:Hebrew University Archaeologists Find 12th Dead Sea Scrol... by Strom on Thursday February 09, 2017 @11:58AM (#13608445)
It does if you go around saying that educated civilization, or even earth itself didn't exist back then.
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Re:Hebrew University Archaeologists Find 12th Dead Sea Scrol... by LyndsySimon on Thursday February 09, 2017 @03:08PM (#13610429)
To my knowledge, even the most extreme Young Earth Creationists believe the Earth predates these scrolls by ~6,000 years.
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Re:Hebrew University Archaeologists Find 12th Dead Sea Scrol... by olavk on Thursday February 09, 2017 @05:48PM (#13611768)
What people are you talking about? Archaeologist? Bedouins?
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