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Bible critics have long used use the "lack of evidence proves something" tactic. One explanation for the lack of camel bones in copper mines is that camels were too valuable to be used in the day to day operation of such mines, but were used for what they do best, which is long distance transportation. It's to be expected then that their bones rarely ended up in copper mines. The critics dismiss the presence of such bones in early layers as being those of wild camels, as if any wild camel would hang around a working copper mine.
What the research really shows is at what time camels became cheap enough to use in copper mines, but of course such a claim wouldn't win any notoriety or research grants. And look where the mine is located. I'm not sure that's the location I would choose for archaeology attempting to disprove the Bible narrative.
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So how do they distinguish between wild and tame camel bones anyway?
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So how do they distinguish between wild and tame camel bones anyway? Context and stress markers. An animal used as a beast of burden will have stress markers in the bones.
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
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Bible critics have long used use the "lack of evidence proves something" tactic. � If this isn't a forensic law, it oughta be � Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.Bible critics also try to wring mileage out of the notion that mention of something or other in another ancient writing (Noah's flood, for example), as evidence of a "borrowed myth," destroys the credence of its mention in the Bible. Pardon me, but I thought that two pedestrians testifying that they saw Banjoe mug the nun was customarily considered pretty good evidence that Banjoe mugged the nun.
"Good enough" isn't.
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And, consistent with this thread, oftentimes it's the two pedestrians who mugged the nun and are framing Banjoe.
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So how do they distinguish between wild and tame camel bones anyway? Look at the toe, the wild ones are hairy.
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And the tame ones are shod.
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And the tame ones are shod. ill pay you to nail shoes on a camel's feet......but only if you have someone running video at the time
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One God, One Savior, One Holy Spirit. Behold, O' Israel, the Lord thy God is One! You can have the camels.
We may know the time Ben Carson lied, but does anyone know the time Hillary Clinton told the truth?
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And, consistent with this thread, oftentimes it's the two pedestrians who mugged the nun and are framing Banjoe. THAT'S funny. Worthy of Bristoe, even.
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So how do they distinguish between wild and tame camel bones anyway? That's easy. If "wild" supports their hypothesis then they must be wild, but if "domestic" supports their hypothesis then they must be domestic. Human nature is at work and if evidence is open to interpretation then almost always it's claimed to support the hypothesis that brings the discoverer the most fame and money. Science, after all, is a career and to have a successful one means publishing stuff that extends the boundaries of accepted orthodoxy. Extra points are awarded if the researcher can claim it disproves something in the Bible.
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