Astronomical dating disproves BK God's view of history
Posted: 02 Mar 2017
The BKs claim that 2,500 years ago, or 500 years before Christ (BC), they ruled a heaven on earth and that there are essentially ... and conveniently for them ... no written records of this highest of all civilisation because 2,500 years there was a breakdowning of their advanced nuclear powerstations (using technology currently unknown to humankind today) and other disasters that destroyed all evidence of their 300,000,000 strong civilisation.
Colloquially amongst themselves, they call this a "Mini-Destruction" ... named after the nuclear "Destruction" of this current civilisation that was supposed to have happened by now.
The whole of China, it's history, it's people, it's great rulers philosophers like Lao Tzu, Mo Tzu, Confucius and so on right the way down to Mao have basically never existed according to BKism ... despite it comprising of 20% of the world's population. They are just never refered to in "God's" teachings ... presumably because the BK guru Lekhraj Kirpalani, did not know anything about them.
Unfortunately, for the BKs China has a very long writen history going back as far as 1500 BC (1,000 years into the BKs Gold and Silver Aged heaven) that refers to a previous "Xia" dynasty confirmed by radiocarbon dating to go back to about 2070 BC and said to be the cradle of Chinese civilization. In 2011, Chinese archaeologists uncovered the remains of an imperial sized palace, dated to about 1700 BC ... or "1,000 BK" (the end of their so claimed Golden Age) ... at Erlitou in Henan. The earliest confirmed evidence of the Chinese script discovered is a body of inscriptions on oracle bones from the late Shang dynasty (c. 1200–1050 BC), markings on turtle shells carbon-dated to around 1500 BC and there have recently been discoveries of tortoise-shell carvings dating back to c. 6000 BC ... howeverm the "Peking Man" site at Zhoukoudian, for example, points to the existence of ancient societies as early as 11–18,000 BC. Longer ago than two to three of thre BKs' cycle of time.
"Impossible", according to the Brahma Kumaris God and students of their Godly Spiritual University, who habitually dismiss any radiocarbon or other scientific dating systems as unreliable ... despite knowing thining about them, or being able to prove their claims.
Well, OK. Let's put such system asides for one moment.
Much work has been done in recent years to establish historical claims on the basis of known and culculable astronomical events, e.g. 'Astronomical Dating and Statistical Analysis of Ancient Chinese Eclipse Data' by Kevin D. Pang, Kevin K. Yau, Hung-Hsiang Chou, made easiler by the discovery of 40,000s manuscripts, including the earliest known - and surprisingly accurate - star maps in a sealed cave in Dunhuang in northwest China. See also, here and here, 'Extraordinary floods in early Chinese history and their absolute dates' Pang, Kevin D, 'Recover dates from historical ganzhi records: A new method of Chinese astronomical chronology', by Li, Yong.
In another paper, 'Mozi and the Dates of Xia, Shang and Zhou' by DW Pankenier, a very rare planetary conjunction which has only happened 4 time in the last 5,000 years ... "the earliest and most impressive of only four such events in the past five thousand years" ... was able to confirm a date accurate to 1953 BC leaving "little room for doubt".
The event turned out to be accurate to within 36 years of what was previously thought to be a mythological event in the "Bamboo Annals" ... that is, the founding of the Xia dynasty.
The response from the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University ... the "highest" university according to them ... nothing.
"Don't think ... don't question ... say "Baba" 10,000 times a day" ... and it will all go away.
Colloquially amongst themselves, they call this a "Mini-Destruction" ... named after the nuclear "Destruction" of this current civilisation that was supposed to have happened by now.
The whole of China, it's history, it's people, it's great rulers philosophers like Lao Tzu, Mo Tzu, Confucius and so on right the way down to Mao have basically never existed according to BKism ... despite it comprising of 20% of the world's population. They are just never refered to in "God's" teachings ... presumably because the BK guru Lekhraj Kirpalani, did not know anything about them.
Unfortunately, for the BKs China has a very long writen history going back as far as 1500 BC (1,000 years into the BKs Gold and Silver Aged heaven) that refers to a previous "Xia" dynasty confirmed by radiocarbon dating to go back to about 2070 BC and said to be the cradle of Chinese civilization. In 2011, Chinese archaeologists uncovered the remains of an imperial sized palace, dated to about 1700 BC ... or "1,000 BK" (the end of their so claimed Golden Age) ... at Erlitou in Henan. The earliest confirmed evidence of the Chinese script discovered is a body of inscriptions on oracle bones from the late Shang dynasty (c. 1200–1050 BC), markings on turtle shells carbon-dated to around 1500 BC and there have recently been discoveries of tortoise-shell carvings dating back to c. 6000 BC ... howeverm the "Peking Man" site at Zhoukoudian, for example, points to the existence of ancient societies as early as 11–18,000 BC. Longer ago than two to three of thre BKs' cycle of time.
"Impossible", according to the Brahma Kumaris God and students of their Godly Spiritual University, who habitually dismiss any radiocarbon or other scientific dating systems as unreliable ... despite knowing thining about them, or being able to prove their claims.
Well, OK. Let's put such system asides for one moment.
Much work has been done in recent years to establish historical claims on the basis of known and culculable astronomical events, e.g. 'Astronomical Dating and Statistical Analysis of Ancient Chinese Eclipse Data' by Kevin D. Pang, Kevin K. Yau, Hung-Hsiang Chou, made easiler by the discovery of 40,000s manuscripts, including the earliest known - and surprisingly accurate - star maps in a sealed cave in Dunhuang in northwest China. See also, here and here, 'Extraordinary floods in early Chinese history and their absolute dates' Pang, Kevin D, 'Recover dates from historical ganzhi records: A new method of Chinese astronomical chronology', by Li, Yong.
All 13 Shang dynasty oracle bone eclipse records have been uniquely matched to 6 solar and 7 lunar eclipses in the 14-12th centuries B.C. The King Zhong Kang 5th year autumnal (Oct. 16, 1876 B.C.) and King Yu 3rd year ”double sunset” (Sept. 24, 1912 B.C.) eclipses confirm the accuracy of the revised Bamboo Annals Xia dynasty chronology. The eclipse dates are plotted against the number of generations before 841 B.C. (earliest accurate date), the respective kings ruled.
The curve of benefit has both the strengths of verified royal genealogy — continuity — and eclipse dating — accuracy. It is 99% accurate, and can be confidently used as a foundation for building a detailed absolute chronology for the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties.
- (Song, Sci. Tech. Daily, May 17, 1996; Newsweek, July 7, 1997).
In another paper, 'Mozi and the Dates of Xia, Shang and Zhou' by DW Pankenier, a very rare planetary conjunction which has only happened 4 time in the last 5,000 years ... "the earliest and most impressive of only four such events in the past five thousand years" ... was able to confirm a date accurate to 1953 BC leaving "little room for doubt".
The event turned out to be accurate to within 36 years of what was previously thought to be a mythological event in the "Bamboo Annals" ... that is, the founding of the Xia dynasty.
The response from the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University ... the "highest" university according to them ... nothing.
"Don't think ... don't question ... say "Baba" 10,000 times a day" ... and it will all go away.
The Shoushi calendar and the calculation of the Zhong Kang solar eclipse. Authors: Li, Yong
The Zhong Kang solar eclipse mentioned in the "Yin Zheng" ("Punitive Expedition of Yin") in the Shang Shu, the Chinese book of historical documents, is known as the earliest one reported in the world. The date identification in the earlier Xia dynasty of this eclipse is puzzling.
Due to the Chinese historical astronomers' achievements in the calculations of the calendars and especially the eclipse counting method of the calendar of Shoushi the author identifies that according to Guo's eclipse calculations, the date converted to the Julian calendar is Oct. 13, 2128 BC.