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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
We're in a time where mankind has progressed in a linear fashion for literally centuries.
That is absolutely unprecedented in human history.
Mankind has operated in fits and starts for eons. It hasn't gone inexorably forward -- it's gone forward, collapsed, risen from the ashes slightly better than it started, moved forward again. Both on micro and macro levels; mankind writ large as well as individual societies dominating geographic regions.
Even through the 1500s it was common for explorers to find fallen civilizations that were far more advanced than anything they knew could exist.
Why do you think the Flood narrative exists and existed BEFORE Christianity? These folks found collapsed civilizations and figured "well hell, something wild must have happened..." That same story or some variation of same exists in essentially every culture.
We just operate through such a limited lens these days. We are so used to the idea that societies are linear that the idea that there were societies using advanced mathematics and complex tools thousands of years ago is simply not under consideration. "It must have been Aliens!" is little more than arrogance on our part, IMO.
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Nobody has ever found any complex tools at any of these ancient sites. Colossal buildings but never any tooling. Did the tooling just erode away under the sands?