On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:42:44 -0800 (PST), wrote:

Primitive? How exactly? Give us a "reasonable definition" of "primitive."

They had little understanding of nature and natural laws. They
ascribed most things to supernatural forces. Their shelters and tools
were very simple. They had limited control over their environment.


And if
you use the Old Testament as evidence (as Gerald chooses to do), they
were brutal nearly beyond imagination.

I thought you had suggested that the Old Testament was fantasy.

Fantasy based on the lives and ideas of the people who wrote it. Of
course, some of it consists of loose history. But most is fabricated.
Certainly there's virtually nothing to be found in Genesis that
represents accurate history, or which describes how nature actually
operates.