Tel Estaol Finds November 2013

Koot van Wyk (DLitt et Phil; ThD)

Visiting Professor

Department of Liberal Arts Education

Kyungpook National University

Sangju Campus

South Korea

Conjoint lecturer of Avondale College

It is reported in Associated Press and affiliates all over the world that Amir Golani and his team, including Jacob Vardi, found Prehistoric home(s) dating to the Chalcolithic period or as Golani said 10 000 years before present but Vardi said 8000 years before present. They were making a road when they found these ruins at Tel Estaol, Northwest of Jerusalem. Der Spiegel reported also with a video indicating some features and pottery and flint objects, like A4860 below.

In the video one can see a dipper juglet. What is also interesting is the shape of the presumably “oven” (at 00:21 of the video) and its bricks that is evidence of a very advanced understanding of geometry. It is almost inconceivable that an advanced person who can make such a brick would use flint tools. But then we need to remind ourselves that migrants, nomads becoming urbanized, children playing “house” will collect and use these tools if they are practical for that purpose. We have no proof to cancel the use of it by children as toys.

Look at the oven’s building composition. The off-set style of building the bricks indicate a high understanding of the role of the off-set for strength and safety of the structure. It is build very well in a circle even. Building requires skill and regular practice to bring this straight walls that we find here for the oven.

The walls of the house shows rectagular in the video, but notice how careful the stones were selected for the walls to make it straight on the face side. The “builders” had a sense for a straight line, a sense for a rectangle, a understanding of how utilize heat from the oven in the rest of the space through those square holes in the brick. The precise center of those divisions of the square holes in the bricks means they were not made by half baboon half human. In fact, these high features indicate that stone flint tools are used by intelligent humans with an IQ no different than anyone today in our modern world.

The dating of these structures by these scholars are slightly off. Just because flint tools were found there and someone once said in the past that they are from 10 000 years before, does not mean that we have to allocate them to the same time. The dipper juglet may rather point to a time after the Flood of Noah in 2523 BCE or Early Bronze I-II when civilization had to rely on flint tools after the Flood since there was nothing else. They were engineers if they could build the Ark of Noah and thus descendants of Noah would also know how to build.

When we try to date shortly after the Flood of Noah objects, we are going to run into problems. Due to their disbelief in biblical chronology, scholars with Rationalism in the Victorian Period and Modernism since 1910 to 1960; Post-Modernism between 1960-1989 has clung to their wild guesses of millions of years, thousands of years, 10 000 years and 8000 years. They actually do not know how to date them. Writing only started since Noah’s Flood for all other records were destroyed by the Flood. That year is 2523 BCE. All the periodization of flint tools will have to be made from that date.

Caution is adviced for the assumptions of Amir Golani and Jacob Vardi since consensus is not necessarily the truth. It is convenient for them but imaginative reality. Biblical reality is set aside by these statements and furthermore, the complications of fusing the high IQ geometry with the flint tool generations is a headache for many Classical Evolution scholars.