Revisionism

The documentary Journey to 10000 BC charts the existence of civilization in North America.  It pieces together dates from artifacts found and fossil bones dug up in the various parts of the United States.  The story that emerges shows a rather nomadic group of people that followed herds of animals for the food they lived on.  They seemed to have lived in a non-iced corridor of Canada and the U.S. until the  ice melted from the last Ice Age, and then they lived in regions around Clovis, New Mexico.  Later in time by about 4000 years, more of the same kind of artifacts surface in Georgia and Virginia.

That's just in the United States.  Archaeology all over the world depicts pictures of civilization that existed during this same period of time.  The time table represented by new evidence is very hard to reconcile with both the story taught in World History in public schools and universities and even harder to reconcile to the early history given in the sacred book of Genesis.  But underwater cities that were above water until the end of the ice age circa 21,000 till 10,000 BCE, are now submerged because ice from the ice sheets melted and raised the ocean levels, and they are begging to tell their stories.

As archaeologists continue to discover artifacts from very ancient times, a revision of our world's history will be updated and incorporated into the learning material of future generations.  The conflict with Genesis on the other hand will be handled in one of two ways.  Either the first 11 chapters of Genesis will be relegated to metaphoric interpretation or it will separate itself completely from the science that archaeologists use, therefore, forcing the issue of believing science or believing the Bible, not both.

Knowing what we do about the universe, and predicting what will be found over the next 500 years, I think there will have to be a day of reckoning with those who hold to merely a world of humans since 4000 BCE.  I would love to see the picture of civilization that those who live 500 years from now will see.  But, I am having to settle for the snail-paced revisionist theories that will surface over the next 30-40 years.

I can't help but dream, though.