All well and good, and these ideas have been very ably proposed by other, seemingly well informed, scholars like Paul Wallace. But the question in my mind is this; If these giants and hybrids existed in the relatively recent past, why have there been no discoveries of their remains? Surely some of them must have been buried in the usual places in the middle east and Holy Land or Egypt.
It's an excellent question. I lean toward an Old Earth Creationist viewpoint, and I think the Flood was what we call the Younger Dryas Event around 10K BC. There aren't many remains from around then period.
Since then, I don't believe giant numbers have ever been that many, and I don't think post-Flood giants ever exceeded 9 feet. Then, of course, there's the Smithsonian scooping them up... That's the best I've got to answer that, and there are men like Dr Judd Burton who've discussed this with much greater expertise in interviews that I know of.
Hi David, this is an insightful essay. I recommend to you and your readers the work of G. Elliot Smith, 'The Evolution of the Dragon', which is on Project Gutenberg. He was an Australian Egyptologist. It was through his writing that I learned that mummification was employed by Torres Strait Islanders, and that one of their mummies was on display at a museum at Sydney University. Whether it is still there I don't know.
Around the same time Smith was writing, Australia started erecting obelisks all over the country to commemorate the dead of the Great War. At least one of these now stands on a 'high place' (similar to the high places described in the Bible regarding pagan worship); the one at Anzac Hill in Alice Springs, which the local Arrente people consider or considered sacred.
Well, Anzac Day has just been and gone, and people in Australia consider it 'sacred'. It involves an intriguing ritual which people seem never to question, involving gathering in the dark (often at an obelisk) and observing the rising sun while reciting a statement about how the fallen dead will no longer grow old, and that we will remember them at the dawning of the sun and in the morning. I'd love to hear your take on the Egyptian connection to Anzac Day.
(Regarding a first-hand account of Arrente religious practices and culture, and a positive influence of Christianity in central Australia, I also strongly recommend 'Blind Moses', by Peter Latz.)
All well and good, and these ideas have been very ably proposed by other, seemingly well informed, scholars like Paul Wallace. But the question in my mind is this; If these giants and hybrids existed in the relatively recent past, why have there been no discoveries of their remains? Surely some of them must have been buried in the usual places in the middle east and Holy Land or Egypt.
It's an excellent question. I lean toward an Old Earth Creationist viewpoint, and I think the Flood was what we call the Younger Dryas Event around 10K BC. There aren't many remains from around then period.
Since then, I don't believe giant numbers have ever been that many, and I don't think post-Flood giants ever exceeded 9 feet. Then, of course, there's the Smithsonian scooping them up... That's the best I've got to answer that, and there are men like Dr Judd Burton who've discussed this with much greater expertise in interviews that I know of.
Hi David, this is an insightful essay. I recommend to you and your readers the work of G. Elliot Smith, 'The Evolution of the Dragon', which is on Project Gutenberg. He was an Australian Egyptologist. It was through his writing that I learned that mummification was employed by Torres Strait Islanders, and that one of their mummies was on display at a museum at Sydney University. Whether it is still there I don't know.
Around the same time Smith was writing, Australia started erecting obelisks all over the country to commemorate the dead of the Great War. At least one of these now stands on a 'high place' (similar to the high places described in the Bible regarding pagan worship); the one at Anzac Hill in Alice Springs, which the local Arrente people consider or considered sacred.
Well, Anzac Day has just been and gone, and people in Australia consider it 'sacred'. It involves an intriguing ritual which people seem never to question, involving gathering in the dark (often at an obelisk) and observing the rising sun while reciting a statement about how the fallen dead will no longer grow old, and that we will remember them at the dawning of the sun and in the morning. I'd love to hear your take on the Egyptian connection to Anzac Day.
(Regarding a first-hand account of Arrente religious practices and culture, and a positive influence of Christianity in central Australia, I also strongly recommend 'Blind Moses', by Peter Latz.)