The Conflict of the Ages Teacher Edition IV Ice Age Civilizations: The Conflict of the Ages Teacher Edition, #4

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The Conflict of the Ages Part Four, Teacher Edition

Ice Age Civilizations

by

Michael J. and Mary C. Findley

© 2015 Michael J. and Mary C. Findley

Findley Family Video Publications

The Conflict of the Ages Part Four, Teacher Edition: Ice Age Civilizations

© 2015 Michael J. and Mary C. Findley

Findley Family Video Publications

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Table of Contents

Note to the Reader

1. Our own statements, thoughts and opinions

2. Quotations from the Holy Scriptures

3. Quotes from other sources

I. Introduction

A. The History of Civilization

1. What is the History of Civilization?

2. Limits to the Conflict of Ages Series

a. This is a textbook

b. Amount of material must be suitable for students

c. History, vocabulary and literature are combined

d. Filtered by what we believe

3. Antidisestablishmentarianism

B. Tools of the Historian

1. Education

a. deliberate misuse of the word eyewitness

b. eyewitness accounts of history do not support secularism

2. Sources

a. Written documents v oral traditions

b. geology, geography and artifacts

3. Accuracy

C. It Escapes Their Notice

D. The Conflict of the Ages Series

1. Antidisestablishmentarianism

a. What Is an Establishment of Religion?

b. What Is Secular Humanism?

c. What Is Science?

d. What Are the Results of the Establishment of Secular Humanism?

2. Conflict of the Ages Part One: The Scientific History of Origins

3. Conflict of the Ages Part Two: The Origin of Evil in the World that Was

4. Conflict of the Ages Part Three: They Deliberately Forgot: The Flood and the Ice Age

5. Guidelines for all books in the series

a. Partial Fulfillment of Academic Requirements

b. Standard writing style, average reading ease 50%, maximum reading level 10th grade

c. Amount and type of main text limited to the above standards

d. Hyperlinks to articles and books outside of the Main Text

e. The Scriptures are the absolute authority

f. Essential defense against Secular Humanism

II. Foundational Assumptions

A. Assumptions of the religion of Secular Humanism

1. Assume existing birth/death rates for the past

2. Assume a population of 27 million for 2000 BC

3. Assume continued harsh living conditions

B. We assume the Bible to be historically accurate

1. Historical-Grammatical Interpretation

2 The Bible Should be Read Like Other Literature

3. Religion Has a Unity With All Other Academic fields

4. The Bible Was Written to be Understood

C. Secular Humanism is founded on Deep Time

1. The earth is millions or billions of years old

2. Special or direct creation by God is not possible

III. Historic Overview

A. Creation

B. The Flood

C. The Ice Age

1. Warm oceans: worldwide temperate zone at sea level

2. Abundant water; probably overabundant

3. Abundant food without intense cultivation

4. Constantly changing conditions favored the nomad

a. Falling temperate zone as the sea levels fell.

b. Rapid retreat and advance of Ice Sheets

c. Pasture lands alternating between marshlands (too wet) and too dry

d. Volcanically active zones would make certain places uninhabitable

IV. Carbon 14 Dating

A. A brief overview of how carbon dating works.

B. Problems with using Carbon 14 dating

1. 5,730 year half-life

2. Assumption of a constant rate of ¹⁴C formation.

3. Degree of accuracy diminishes with time

C. Benefits of using Carbon 14 dating

1. Known starting condition

2. Short half-life allows for calibration with written documents

3. ¹⁴C can give us useful relative ages.

4. Verifying ¹⁴C dates

a. The MSS of the Dead Sea Scrolls

b. The founding of Carthage

c. By 1500 BC, Radiocarbon dates are one or two centuries younger than archaeological timelines

d. The oldest post flood artifacts

e. Materials formed during the flood have ¹⁴C dates around 50,000 years

f. Corrected ¹⁴C timeline

V. Chronology

A. Calendars

B. Events

1. The Creation 4000 BC

2. The Flood 2350 BC

3. The Crucifixion AD 30

The Conflict of the Ages Part Four

Ice Age Civilizations

I. Overview

II. The Post Flood World: the Ice Age

A. Noah and his family leave the ark

B. God’s covenant with Noah

1. be fruitful, multiple and fill the earth

2. Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you

3. Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood

4. Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed

III. Repopulation of the earth

A. The table of nations

1. Noah’s grandchildren became shipbuilders

2. Nimrod

3. Canaan

4. Peleg

B. Babel (confusion)

1. Nimrod is not mentioned

2. Location is not certain

3. Worked on many years

4. Built during Peleg’s lifetime

5. No record that the city was ever completed

C. Lifespans of the Lineage of the Messiah after the Flood

IV. The Ice Age records

A. ¹⁴C Dating

1. Limits

2. Corrections

3. Benefits

B. Africa

C. Americas

D. Australia/Southeast Asia/Oceania

E. China

F. Europe

G. Egypt

1. Egyptian chronology does not match other chronologies

2. Hebrew History must be rejected to accept Egyptian chronology

3. Egyptian records are inconsistent with each other

4. Carbon-14 dates are younger than Egyptian written records

5. Reconciliation of Hebrew History and Egyptian Chronology

H. Indus Valley

I. Mesopotamia

J. The Foundation of Culture

1. The family

2. Warfare

3. Society

4. Religion

5. Housing

V. Ice Age Literature

VI. Summary

Review and Study Section

I. Review Questions

II. Vocabulary

III. References, Footnotes, Expanded Study and Appendix Materials

A. References to Outside Sources

1. Notes to the Reader

2. Introduction

3. Main Text

Bibliography

B. Articles from Elk Jerky for the Soul

1. What Did Scalia Say and Why Did He Say It?

2. The Problem with Dates in History: Hammurabi’s Law Code

3. Building the Pyramids of Egypt According to Herodotus

4. A Simple Overview of the Mechanisms Which Caused the Flood.

C. Evidence Lists for a Young Earth

1. Ten Best Evidences by Answers in Genesis

2. Age of the earth: 101 evidences for a young age of the earth and the universe

Material from Antidisestablishmentarianism

3. Evidences of a Young Earth (Chapter Fourteen)

Other Books and Products from Findley Family Video

Note to the Reader

COA4 contains repeated material from COA 1, the first of the previous modules, mostly in the teacher edition, for the benefit of those who may begin the study with this module. For more details of material included in the introduction and back matter please refer to COA 1. Links to the appendix section containing simple endnote source citations or references will be notated alphabetically in the introductory materials and numerically in the main text. (for example: Stephen Hawkinga or Hammurabi¹) Because some material is for teachers only, some outline points are omitted from the student edition. The student edition is still continuous, though it does not include as much material.

Endnotes are accessed by hyperlinks.

If there is no letter or number, the link connects to a different appendix section, such as excerpts from Antidisestablishmentarianism or our Elk Jerky for the Soul blog. In any case, readers can link back from the reference/appendix sections to the place in the text where they left off. Sometimes when the text refers to the same section multiple times (example: Ch. 14: What Is the Scientific Evidence? is referenced multiple times throughout the text) there will not be a hyperlink, just a written direction to see that appendix section for more information.

When clicking on a hyperlink, touch or place the mouse on or in a character, not in a space between letters or words, to ensure the hyperlink works correctly.

This work includes three types of material:

1. Our own statements

(This is the majority of the book.)

2. The Scriptures

These will appear in italic font. If no version is listed it is the King James Version.

3. Other sources.

Fragment of Jubilees from Qumran Public Domain image

Quotes from other sources vary wildly in accuracy and reliability. One example of highly reliable material outside of the Bible is the Book of Jubilees. Source for Jubilees Authoritya The Coptic Church regards the Book of Jubilees as inspired Scripture. Among the Dead Sea Scrolls are twenty-one copies of the Book of Jubilees. Our position is that the Book of Jubilees is not inspired. It contains errors. Note the testimony from Epiphaneus, a bishop of Salamis (A.D. 310-403?), referenced below.

Epiphaneus does not introduce the material from Jubilees as scripture, and Jubilees is not among the biblical books he names in his treatise Measures and Weights; but the information in the Book of Jubilees was reliable enough for him to use in refuting a sect that attributed a different origin and nature to Seth.

He also reproduces Jubilees’ connection between the twenty-two works of creation until the Sabbath and the twenty-two generations until Jacob.

With Byzantine historians, Josephus and Jubilees were regularly cited together, since, in the scope and the material treated, the two works were parallel.

An example at the other extreme is the Epic of Gilgamesh. We refer to it because at the time of this writing it is considered to be the world’s oldest written document. Its only true purpose was to deify man and support the local tyrant. It is mostly erroneous, sometimes dangerous, and is difficult to read and understand. Still, the Epic of Gilgamesh contains some useful information. The multiple extant versions of the Epic of Gilgamesh contain considerable variations. While there are fragments of the Epic of Gilgamesh dating back to the beginning of the second millennia, maybe even the third millennia, BC, the most complete extant copy is a Babylonian version found in the 7th century BC library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. This is the version we use. It is also the most common version, since it is the oldest complete version.

When Noah’s family left the Ark they passed on the true history of mankind to their descendants. Every culture, therefore, was originally founded on accurate information. The various historical accounts included in this work still contain some accurate information. We begin each point with the information taught by the appropriate Scripture passages. That is followed by additional evidence to support the Scriptural teachings. This additional evidence includes various records as well as archeological and geological evidence.

Teacher manual only

cover of book of Jasher from Biblefacts

The Book of Jasher needs special explanation. One reviewer stated that the "Book of Jasher is not authentic. What is being cited is an 18th century forgery" This reviewer’s error concerning the Book of Jasher is, sadly, widespread and accepted by many otherwise very well-educated believers. If you are concerned about this error, then please examine the article in the References, Footnotes, Expanded Study and Appendix Materials (near the end of the book) on the Book of Jasher.b

Many ancient Jewish sources are quoted, including Philo, Josephus, the Sedar Olam, the Book of Jubilees, the Book of the Bee, the Cave of Treasures, the first Book of Enoch, various Talmuds and Midrashes, and the Book of Jasher. Many non-Jewish sources are also quoted. The Jewish books are from the Second Century AD or older. None of them are inspired by God and all contain errors. Sources quoted in these modules support positions in the Word of God. There is little value in extensive study of any of these works, but they are documented in case you wish to examine them. They are all based on older works and accurately record older Jewish traditions.

I. Introduction

A. The History of Civilization

1. What is the History of Civilization?

The History of Civilization is the record of man either yielding to God’s will for His glory or struggling to rebel against God. Beginning with the introductory book Antidisestablishmentarianism, this is the thesis of the entire Conflict of the Ages series.