Evolution

This is an extraordinarily bizarre exchange. Are you arguing with yourself or are there really two of you with the same username? Your post 4 refutes your own post 1 - and looks like it was written by two completely different people. Whazzupwiththat?[This message has been edited by Quetzal, 11-13-2002]

Lemming:Concerning the "bottle" thing: Are you referring to the beautifully carved alabaster vases and jars the Egyptians used to make? Like this one: Alabaster, for those of you who are mineralogically challenged, is a verrry soft marble, easily carved with metal implements (even with a knife). Its use (because of the beautiful banding and grain pattern, and ease of polishing) as a decorative vessel (a lot of the canoptic jars in tombs, perfume bottles, water vases, etc were alabaster) was widespread throughout the Middle East at the time. There were several alabaster mines in ancient Egypt during the Iron Age.And this was supposed to prove what, again?