Noah’s Flood and Tooth Decay
Koot van wyk (DLitt et Phil; ThD)
Visiting Professor
Kyungpook National University
Sangju Campus
South Korea
Conjoint lecturer of Avondale College
Australia
Scientists at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel made a discovery of tooth decay on a fossil tooth said by them to be 1.5 million years old. It was published in Science Daily June 29, 2004. The tooth has evidence of hereditary genetic disorder.
The researchers dr. Uri Zilberman and Patricia Smith, the Joel Wilbush Professor of Medical Anthropology, both from the Faculty of Dental Medicine of the Hebrew University and dr. Silvana Condemi, a senior researcher at the French Research Institute in Jerusalem worked on the article in the Journal of Human Evolution that details the finding of a disease known as amelogenesis imperfecta in the teeth of a fossil found in archaeological excavations in Ethiopia. It is a two-year old Homo erectus child considered to be the precursor of modern man.
According to dr. Zilberman, this is the first recorded evidence from such an early prehistoric period of a hereditary disorder in which specific genes were responsible and can be identified. He thinks there may be other hereditary diseases as well.
Amelogenesis imperfecta is a hereditary disorder that manifests itself in tooth enamel that is abnormal in structure, low in mineral content and hence subject to rapid wear and chipping. These researchers confirmed the presence of the disease in the fossil sample through x-ray and scanning electron microscope analyses. This disease is rare today with 1 in 14000 people in Israel, 1 in 8000 in the USA and 1 in 700 in Sweden.
Bible and this Science
To bring science to the Bible is not only necessary but is the most realistic thing to do. The Bible is a record of the creation of the world in six literal days confirmed and repeated in nearly every book in the whole Bible. The literature that originated over a span of millennia echoes the same point that God was the creator not evolution and even through the Hellenistic Greek periods, this view has not waver.
Evolutionism is just as much build on a faith system of axioms no different than faith is needed to belief in God, in God as Creator and that He can create ex-nihilo and create instantaneously, spread out over a week.
The next point is that it is a fossil.
Fossils originated in biblical language as a result of the Flood of Noah. This worldwide catastrophe is dated in biblical chronology exactly to the year 2523 BCE. For discussions as to how to arrive at this date, please see this writer’s articles in http://www.egw.org at VAN WYK NOTE. This homo erectus died in that flood.
Is homo erectus a human or an ape?
This question is not confirmed yet. Even scholars are not absolute sure about this issue. Those who want to see bridges between animals and humans will of course insist that they can see patterns, but iconographical pictures of apes from Egypt in 2300 BCE shows no difference in shape from the apes we have today.
What about Egyptian and Mesopotamian Chronology and the biblical date of 2523 BCE for Noah’s Flood?
George Hanfmann was the Egyptologist who reminded his readers that Egyptian and Mesopotamian chronology are not two stout pillars on which the facts of history are hanging. It is well said. For chronological discussions biblical, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, please see http://www.egw.org at VAN WYK NOTE.
Decay in 2523 BCE and its impact on the facts
There should be decay in 2523 BCE since after the Fall of Adam and Eve, decay was part of history. We have no evidence of the lives of people in a pre-flood scenario. All our facts in science started in 2523 BCE. History starts at 2523 BCE. All data, all science, all derivatives of ideas, languages, cultures, variations of peoples is traced to this year.
Seriations of Paleontology
The seriations of Paleontology is what it is, seriations and not chronology. It is parked guesses estimated on the slant of a shape in one direction or the other. A nice pattern is normally sought for the seriations. The consensus model of seriations has to be adapted biblically since there is no chance to overstep 2523 BCE. It is the same for Egyptology and Mesopotamian history from Sumer and Akkad. (For articles on these issues by this writer, see http://www.egw.org at VAN WYK NOTE).
Dating systems of Science
In a controversial debate of the evolutionist atheist Richard Dawkins with creationist John Mackoy, Dawkins tried to brush aside the six thousand years of earth’s history of Mackoy with the argument that so many scientific systems overlaps to give a more or less dating of objects of this earth in millions. Mackoy answered him fittingly, in that Youtube debate, that all these systems will overlap since all of them have chosen to look at the world through the Uniformatism axiom glasses of Victorian Age geologist Charles Lyell. They all presume that the present is a key to the past and since everything remained the same, what can be measured now can be used to measure back then. This is the fallacy according to Mackoy. Mackoy says that the only way new systems are invented is because the previous ones did not work properly. That is why potassium-argon, carbon 14 dating and other systems are not reliable evidence for distant history, since catastrophes could have altered the reliability of measuring systems in the distant past. The Worldwide flood is well admitted and evidenced around the globe and that it was water, sometimes water with volcanoes and strong streams can be seen in the lava flow, the sediments in canyons and other evidence.
Decay of tooth may mean that this ape was a handicap ape?
If this strange homo erectus had decay evidence in the tooth, then is it possible that the form and shape of this ape appearing human or human appearing ape has to do with genetic disorders?
Source:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040629020352.htm
http://www.egw.org VAN WYK NOTES
The following list are my essays on Creation and Chronology related issues:
550 Creation and Evolution in Cuneiform Texts kootvanwyk 2012-01-14 690
535 Week and Sabbath: Seven day cycles and Seventh-day importance in cuneiform texts kootvanwyk 2011-12-02 460
534 Cuneiform Studies: Week and Sabbath: More Sabbath Cuneiform Texts from Erech, Uruk or Warka kootvanwyk 2011-11-28 457
532 Cuneiform Studies: Sabbath in Assyrian Dictionaries kootvanwyk 2011-11-20 426
523 Hemerological related Texts from Yale Babylonian Collection and seventh-day kootvanwyk 2011-11-02 358
521 Sabbath Studies: 7th day Sabbath: Assyrian Cuneiform Sabbath Text kootvanwyk 2011-10-27 389
516 Creationist Studies: Origins Debate: Limitations of Modern Scientists talking on Origins kootvanwyk 2011-10-16 425
514 Creationist Studies: Genesis 1 Debate: Misconceptions about biblical cosmology kootvanwyk 2011-10-12 379
513 Creationist Studies: The delusion of Uniformatism kootvanwyk 2011-10-10 425
504 Genesis 1 theories by Hugo Radau 1902 and van wyk notes kootvanwyk 2011-08-29 441
503 Number Seven in the days of Gudea, Abraham, Ismael and Isaac 1 kootvanwyk 2011-08-28 449
485 Towards a Methodology of Studying any configuration of the Ancient Near East kootvanwyk 2011-08-01 381
475 Perspectives on the Sabbath: Four Views (2011). Response to a Review by Fred Zaspel kootvanwyk 2011-07-01 597
462 Klusendorf on the Ten Commandments under review kootvanwyk 2011-05-31 542
459 Everyday a Sabbath is non-Biblical kootvanwyk 2011-05-25 595
443 Sabbath is the Seventh Day, says Pope kootvanwyk 2011-04-24 632
436 Sabbatismos in the book of Hebrews kootvanwyk 2011-04-13 672
411 Atheist Evolutionist Rirchard Dawkins unveiled
367 Adventist expectations before reading Tom Shepherd's work: the case of Literary Analysis and Textual Analysis kootvanwyk 2010-11-01 780
363 Evolution debunked by Walther Veith kootvanwyk 2010-10-21 912
305 Prehistoric human footprints and Creationism kootvanwyk 2010-06-06 618
293 Serious Student's Guide to Genesis 1 kootvanwyk 2010-05-08 696
290 Creation reports in the Ancient Near East (2) kootvanwyk 2010-05-02 582
289 Creation reports in the Ancient Near East (I) kootvanwyk 2010-04-26 576
267 Problems with E. W. Faulstich's Biblical Chronology kootvanwyk 2010-03 -25 1048
227 Chronology of Hammurabi and later kootvanwyk 2009-12-29 1777
226 Cylinder Seal from Mari (Zimri-Lim 1746 BCE) [in progress] kootvanwyk 2009-12-29 1683
223 Isin dynasty and the events of Jacob's life kootvanwyk 2009-12-24 1247
217 Chronology of the Patriarchs kootvanwyk 2009-12-15 1182
207 Literary Criticism of Van Wyk : Methodological Considerations kootvanwyk 2009-12-02 802
205 Bible Basics for very Beginners: Understanding the book of Genesis Textbook and Workbook kootvanwyk 2009-11-27 1431
155 Abraham died and the Calendar Chaos that followed at Ur kootvanwyk 2009-08-10 953
145 Gibson again: Comments on another 'great' find by this scholar kootvanwyk 2009-07-30 974
132 Catholic Cathecism on Sabbath with van wyk notes kootvanwyk 2009-06-27 665
120 Zero Evolution proved by Fossils kootvanwyk 2009-05-20 1459
119 Chronological Gleanings for the Syro-Ephraemite War kootvanwyk 2009- 05-20 1469
104 Pithom and Ramesses cities in Exodus 1:11 reviewed kootvanwyk 2009-04 -22 2656
103 Diagrams to connect the history of Moses to Egyptian history kootvanwyk 2009-04-21 1576
101 Computing the date of the arrival of the Philistines 1174 BCE at war with Egypt kootvanwyk 2009-04-19 1194
96 Computing the year 1450 BCE as the death date for Thutmosis III kootvanwyk 2009-04-10 1473
95 Egyptian "CNN" report of Thutmosis III's death on the morning of the Exodus kootvanwyk 2009-04-09 1421
93 Gilgamesh Epic Table XI lines 127-166: Readings for Akkadian Students kootvanwyk 2009-03-30 2660
89 Year-day principle in Assyrian and Babylonian Metrics kootvanwyk 2009- 03-22 1315
84 From Evolutionist to Creationist: Walter Veith Lectures (SDA Creationism) kootvanwyk 2009-03-14 1602
83 Chronological Notes of Van Wyk on the Kings of Israel kootvanwyk 2009- 03-11 1222
82 Neo-Babylonian Literature: Creation and Rebellion Motifs in the Legend of the Worm kootvanwyk 2009-03-10 1192
67 Fossil Seriation, Archaeological Seriation and Chronology Readjusted Biblically kootvanwyk 2009-02-19 1699
66 Usher, Ellen White and Darwin on the Age of the Earth kootvanwyk 2009- 02-18 1332
65 Approximate Faith and Approximate Science is not Enough kootvanwyk 2009 -02-14 1215
60 Bill Cork on Misunderstanding Genesis (Book in 2006) kootvanwyk 2009- 02-08 981
51 Factitive and Practical Atheism: Dietrich Bonhoefer and William Hamilton kootvanwyk 2009-01-27 1156
25 Akkadian week (short notes) kootvanwyk 2008-11-28 2437
2 Young earth: Dating systems under scrutiny by Creationists 하늘로향한창 2008-10-28 2602
1 Accounting tables after the Flood of Noah 하늘로향한창 2008-10-28 4055
619 Biblical Creation Thoughts kootvanwyk 2013-01-18 8
618 Genesis One Analyzed kootvanwyk 2013-01-12 38
614 Reflections on the Exegesis between Theology and Geology kootvanwyk 2012-12-31 346
596 Creation and the Image of God: Plagiarism in Egypt kootvanwyk 2012-10-20 788
592 Fall of Lucifer Gleanings 2 kootvanwyk 2012-10-06 872
591 Fall of Lucifer Gleanings kootvanwyk 2012-10-06 908