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25 Jan 2012, 6:38 pm

The Jews stole ideas for their 7 day creation cosmogony from the persians, Zoroaster.



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25 Jan 2012, 6:49 pm

NextFact wrote:
The Jews stole ideas for their 7 day creation cosmogony from the persians, Zoroaster.


The native Americans invented calculus.



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25 Jan 2012, 7:08 pm

NextFact wrote:
The Jews stole ideas for their 7 day creation cosmogony from the persians, Zoroaster.


Borrowed. Ideas diffuse from one culture to another. An idea cannot be stolen. The person who thought of it first still has it. Whereas if I steal your car, I have the car and you don't.

Just about every good idea come from somewhere else first.

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25 Jan 2012, 8:52 pm

NextFact wrote:
The Jews stole ideas for their 7 day creation cosmogony from the persians, Zoroaster.

And the Sumerians "borrowed" Yaweh to be the brother of their god Ba'al and the husband of Asharah.

So what?