Being a " young Earth creationist " ca n’t be easy , believing the Earth is 6 - 12,000 years old despite all grounds to thecontrary .
People are often digging up evidence of life going back before 10,000 BCE , or elsediggingthrough rock that go out back hundreds of millions of years before God supposedly had a officious week of make everything in existence . Well , nowyoung Earth creationistshave hit back with their own groundbreaking " encounter " : the supposed skull of Goliath .
A post about the " believable grounds " mention that it was " found in the wilderness " outside of Rome , and claims it proves that the " theory of evolution was wrong " .
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As noted by several Twitter users , in the story of David vs Goliath , David come on the giant and apply a sling to smash a stone into his frontal bone . give that the force was enough to kill him , you may presume it at least penetrated his skull , a detail missing from the skull " bump " ( in a remarkable coincidence ) by creationists .
It ’s also unclear why Goliath ’s read/write head is that big . Accountsfrom the Bible put the behemoth at between 2.05 meters ( 6 understructure 9 inches ) and 3 meters ( 9 feet 9 inch ) , and do n’t remark Goliath having a head significantly disproportionate to his body . For denotation , LeBron James is 2.06 cadence , and shake a far smaller head than the skull photoshopped above . Another question mug around the story is why Goliath would be transport to Rome follow his death , especially given thedifficultythat would take .
As well as the deficiency of grounds for the existence of gargantuan humans , the approximation come up against the " square cube law " , which states that as the size of any object grows ( be it a cube or a giant hired by the Philistines to ruin their enemies ) its book grows faster than its surface area . Your country arise in dimension to the public square of your size , whereas your loudness scale up in proportion to the regular hexahedron of your size , a trouble for anyone who come about to have any bones .
A three-dimensional column inch of bone can support 8,600 kg ( 19,000 pound ) , which is a pot , but at 18 meters ( 60 feet ) tall it would call for to patronize well over 250,047 kilograms ( assuming we ’re scaling up a 63 - kilogram or 10 - stone person , the average weight for a human ) .
This is too much for your bone to take , so if a giant were this magniloquent ( or the size the skull above involve ) David would be good off simply waiting for the heavyweight ’s bones to crumple under its enormous weight , making any slingshot action at law entirely unneeded and a tad intend .
