Uh... guys?
Since when did Wikipedia become the source of all our historical knowledge? I'd rather view it the same way I know view the various History Channel documentaries that I would post occasionally: a starting point, but hardly an end point.
And Suraj, the human race is made of far more than just descendants of East Asian tribes and West Asian tribes. What about the Europeans before the Celts(who were from Russia originally... imagine that!) or Africans who stayed behind? Why aren't they in the picture? Or Native Americans? What about them?
I know these people all shared a common ancestor, but they split eons before Genesis Chapter One. This is a scientific fact.
If you blame your sources on your mistakes, I recommend you get new sources. It's your responsibility to research what your sources claim from other non-related ones, to confirm what they said. If all non-related sources say or claim the same thing, you can reasonably assume they're all correct. But always be on the lookout for any other source that might refute what all the others say, and research what they claim; they might turn out to be the correct one. (out of religious context, a good example is the theory that many dinosaurs are more closely related to birds than lizards; a very radical thought when it was first proposed, but one that makes far more sense to me)
And here's a bit of human nature: we want power. We want control. We want to be right. We abhor being wrong. So kings will bend historical facts to make themselves look great and their enemies look evil. Someone once said: "War doesn't decide who is right; only who is left." (anyone know who said that?) Whoever is left bends history to make them grand. I don't have to look at ancient religions to know this; I only have to look at the history of my own country("U"SA). As a child, the idea that this country was by far the greatest of all the world's countries was hammered mercilessly into my mind, filling up my brain with downright lies. Now I look at it's history, and I find a country literally running red with the blood of thousands upon thousands. If I may borrow a verse from one of my favorite metal bands,
"White men came, saw the blessed land.
We cared, you took; you fought, we lost.
Not a war, but an unfair fight,
Sceneries painted beautiful in blood..."
-Creek Mary's Blood, Nightwish
Forty thousand years and our hearts still haven't evolved much beyond the jungle...
Oh, and Lava? The Hindu gods aren't idols; idols are man-made objects that are worshiped, like the Golden Calf, or things in nature never meant to be worshiped, like the dragon in the extended story of Daniel. (or really bad singers...)
Since when did Wikipedia become the source of all our historical knowledge? I'd rather view it the same way I know view the various History Channel documentaries that I would post occasionally: a starting point, but hardly an end point.
And Suraj, the human race is made of far more than just descendants of East Asian tribes and West Asian tribes. What about the Europeans before the Celts(who were from Russia originally... imagine that!) or Africans who stayed behind? Why aren't they in the picture? Or Native Americans? What about them?
I know these people all shared a common ancestor, but they split eons before Genesis Chapter One. This is a scientific fact.
If you blame your sources on your mistakes, I recommend you get new sources. It's your responsibility to research what your sources claim from other non-related ones, to confirm what they said. If all non-related sources say or claim the same thing, you can reasonably assume they're all correct. But always be on the lookout for any other source that might refute what all the others say, and research what they claim; they might turn out to be the correct one. (out of religious context, a good example is the theory that many dinosaurs are more closely related to birds than lizards; a very radical thought when it was first proposed, but one that makes far more sense to me)
And here's a bit of human nature: we want power. We want control. We want to be right. We abhor being wrong. So kings will bend historical facts to make themselves look great and their enemies look evil. Someone once said: "War doesn't decide who is right; only who is left." (anyone know who said that?) Whoever is left bends history to make them grand. I don't have to look at ancient religions to know this; I only have to look at the history of my own country("U"SA). As a child, the idea that this country was by far the greatest of all the world's countries was hammered mercilessly into my mind, filling up my brain with downright lies. Now I look at it's history, and I find a country literally running red with the blood of thousands upon thousands. If I may borrow a verse from one of my favorite metal bands,
"White men came, saw the blessed land.
We cared, you took; you fought, we lost.
Not a war, but an unfair fight,
Sceneries painted beautiful in blood..."
-Creek Mary's Blood, Nightwish
Forty thousand years and our hearts still haven't evolved much beyond the jungle...
Oh, and Lava? The Hindu gods aren't idols; idols are man-made objects that are worshiped, like the Golden Calf, or things in nature never meant to be worshiped, like the dragon in the extended story of Daniel. (or really bad singers...)