Man in the Cave

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As it turns out, the Bible talks about people who lived in caves. Today Greg and Emily talk about who some of those people were, how cool their art was, and why evidence always comes with interpretation. Whether we’re ancients considering the world’s origin, or we’re modern scientists and archaeologists, our reading of the facts can vary widely based on what we’ve already assumed to be true. One site of cave paintings, La Marche, provides a particularly good example of archaeological evidence that was initially dismissed by the archaeological establishment on account of their preconceptions about what cave people of a certain age did and didn’t do. Cave art displays marvelous creativity that testifies to the artists’ humanity--and also encourages us also to imitate God in imagination, in humor, and in art.

This Episode Features: Greg Doesn’t Say Dinosaur; Our Favorite Movies; You Don’t Know Something Until You Can Teach It; Long-Range Pudding; Alien Intrusion; The Old Yorker; Always Look Down When You Enter a New Chamber; and Post-Impressionist Race-Horses.

Links

Faith For All Of Life / The Chalcedon Foundation: https://chalcedon.edu/

The Everlasting Man - G.K. Chesterton: https://amzn.to/2GNbUcr

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas Kuhn: https://amzn.to/2RP4Zpm

Faces From the Ice Age - David Whitehouse (BBC News, 2002): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2012385.stm

On the Attribution of Palaeolithic Artworks: The Case of La Marche (Lussac-les-Châteaux, Vienne) - Simone Chisena, Christophe Delage (Open Archaeology, 2018): https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2018-0015