SHAZAM! BOOM! HISTORY | 2006-12-29
Atheistic historians are at one with the biblical literalists who say that everything originated in the Middle East. Most Bible literalists seem to think that God will be upset if everything historical, from writing to the opposable thumb, was invented within walking distance of Jerusalem. Atheistic historians, insist that it was more than walking distance. Everything happened to be invented with a couple of hundred miles of where Christian, Jewish and Moslem religionists had been digging for a couple of millennia before.
The probability that everything would have come from exactly where all those diggers had been digging for millennia is a bit remote, but no one thinks of that. The fact that atheistic professors and fundamentalists are a working team is ignored in the dazzle of ways in which modern priests of Political Correctness distance themselves from priests of the earlier faiths.
One of the major ways Political Correctness separated itself from other religious history was by rejecting any SHAZAM! BOOM! theories. So the six day creation was rejected as absurd because it caused a sudden creation of the earth while evolution provided a slow, majestic, respectable movement, bit by bit.
So Atlantis was laughed at because they said it went down in a flood in a day. Historians tortured the information till it screamed and came up with the Minoan earthquakes and the like. This made them intellectuals, while the other religions were just a bunch of superstitious rubes.
We are now finding, more and more, that many things in history DID happen suddenly. The whole civilization of an area bigger than today's France went under in one day. Soon after that agriculture and other sciences took a Great Leap Forward outside of that drowned valley.
We had all concluded that the dinosaurs were destroyed in one huge cosmic disaster. Now we find that dinosaurs were dying off steadily before that meteor hit. The meteor was the last straw, if that's the right word for something that size.
But the BASIC rule here is that we must STOP, once and for all, deciding an idea is sophisticated because it happens fast or slow, whether it reflects Acceptable Opinion or not. We must forget all the crap about The Literature and Peer Review and Judicial Opinion. Those are the results of power and propaganda, and they are Truth, the enemy of truth.
A thing is true if it WORKS. One experiment is worth a hundred Expert Opinions.