The Black Water Draw, New Mexico, and the Bible


From the Judeo/Christian view, as I interpret it, history began about 6,000 years ago. This is when the Jews appeared to adopt the view there was only one god. This contrasted with other groups in that region who were Pagans and had lots of gods. There must have been other gods in other parts of the world, though there is not the same written record. What we have elsewhere are pictures on cave walls and evidence of rituals. The cave art has been dated back to 30,000 years ago, long before the one-god Jews.

Of course, neither the Jews nor the 30,000 year old cave art were on this continent. Is there any evidence there were humans on this continent going back into the BCE time? There certainly is. If is evidence of humans living for long periods of time here about 13,000 years ago. These humans had no link to the Jew's God. Each had separate gods. 

The evidence we have is in the Black Water Draw excavation site and state park in New Mexico. The site shows clear evidence of humans hunting and butchering large animals. The remains of huge animals are everywhere on the site. 

There is a consensus among people who study this ice age which existed from about 128,000 years ago until about 13,000 years ago about the sequence of events. The water for the glaciers meant oceans were lower. Lower oceans allowed humans to cross the straights of west Alaska by land and travel south between glaciers. Evidence of humans living in New Mexico is dated at 13,000 years ago. Some believe there is evidence of religious ceremonies among the bones and stones at the Black Water Draw site.

It is absurd to think the supernatural of the peoples who arrived in New Mexico from the north around 13,000 years ago had some link to the supernatural of the Jews on the other side of the globe. They were a world apart.

Jesus traveled here and across this country on the barrel of a gun paid for by a prosperous society.

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