How do young earth creationists account for stone tools?

Like this:

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I think you are exaggerating about the number of stone tools found.

But in any case they are easy to explain - easier to explain from a creationist point of view than an evolutionist point of view. According to the latter people failed to make any technological progress for hundreds of thousands of years!

Archaeology shows that there were once people who lived in caves and used simple stone tools. Observation shows that there are still people who do the same. We have seen evidence that all people on earth today are descended from Noah and his family. Before the Flood, Genesis indicates there was at least sufficient technology to make musical instruments, to farm, forge metal implements, construct cities and build a very large seaworthy vessel. After the dispersion at Babel, the hostilities induced by the new languages may have forced some groups to scatter rather rapidly, finding shelter where and when they could.

In some instances, the use of stone tools may simply have been a stage until their settlements were fully established, and they had found and exploited metal deposits, for example. In others, the original diverging group may not have taken all the knowledge with them. Ask an average group today how many of them, if they had to start again, as it were, would know how to find, mine and smelt metal-bearing rocks (ore bodies). Obviously, there has been technological (cultural) degeneration/loss in many post-Babel groups.

In some cases, harsh environments may have contributed. The Australian Aborigines have a technology and cultural knowledge which, in relation to their lifestyle and need to survive in the dry outback, is most appropriate. This includes aerodynamic principles used in making boomerangs (some of which are designed to return to the thrower, while others are not).

Sometimes we see evidence of degeneration that is hard to explain, but is real, nonetheless. For instance, when Europeans arrived in Tasmania, the Aborigines there had the simplest technology known. They caught no fish, and did not usually make and wear clothes. Yet recent archaeological discoveries lead us to infer that some generations earlier, they had more knowledge and equipment.

For instance, archaeologist Rhys Jones believes that in the Tasmanian Aborigines’ distant past, these people had equipment to sew skins into more complex clothes than the skins they just slung over their shoulders, according to all descriptions in the early 1800s. It also appears that they were in fact catching and eating fish in the past, but when Europeans arrived, they had not been doing this for a long time.1 From this we infer that technology can indeed be lost or abandoned, and is not always retained and built upon.

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After the dispersion at Babel many groups appear to have lost technological knowledge and entered the stone age. As they migrated any case the new lands they entered would not have been suitable for old crops and a great amount of labour would have been necessary to clear land to establish crops, resulting in a switch to a hunting lifestyle for survival.

in basic terms a decietful, vengeful god who likes making human beings not have self belief in him could create the international the way YEC's depict. and that i for one refuse to have self belief in considered one of those infantile god... A god attempting to coach his could could make a large tree with 3000 jewelry! He'd make one with none! there are the thank you to make issues seem to look (ask any magician) yet there is not any human thank you to make a three hundred foot tree without jewelry. there is not any thank you to place down extra advantageous than one seasonal varve. trouble-free as that. Cataclismic volcanic eruptions (how ******* many times do you think of those take place to take a supposedly "genuine" age of approximately 6000 and turn it into 3 MILLION?! Do you think of there is 500 mt. St. Helens length eruptions each year?!) Varves with floods, storms, volcanic eruptions, mudslides, etc don't have extra layers! they have THICKER layers! A flood or a hurricane would deposit a great number of sedment, in spite of the undeniable fact that that's nonetheless the comparable form of sediment already being layed down, so all of it seems as one varve layer. once you ought to lie approximately fact to make your ideals extra wholesome, you ought to heavily reassess your ideals... the difficulty is, creationists think of its the inerrant notice of god.

Man has only been in this earth in the flesh for thousands of years. There were many people here before Adam. And prior to this flesh age, who said people in spiritual bodies couldn't use tools? Angel's food fed the people in the wilderness.