Doesn’t Anyone Understand the Untenable Claims About Beringia? Part II

In the last post we mentioned how preposterous it was for people to move from a warm climate area into a freezing cold area, cross a frozen land bridge into another freezing cold environment to travel at least 2000 miles before leaving the glaciated area and into a warmer climate (Washington State).

Does anyone really believe that people would leave warm areas and migrate into frozen, glaciated land and across it for thousands of miles, even if there was a continuous land?

However, even more preposterous is the utterly unsubstantiated belief that the land bridge was a grassland, which it is claimed enabled humans to cross the Bering Sea and enter North America. It is also believed that these early settlers were following migrating animals across the Bering Land Bridge and for a time may have settled on the bridge itself. As the Bering Land Bridge began to flood once again with the end of the ice age however, humans and the animals they were following moved south along coastal North America. If all this is true, why would they not have escaped back the way they had come, rather than forging further ahead into a flooding plain whose distance and circumstances was beyond their knowledge.

It is certainly curious that animals would willingly leave a warmer clime and go into freezing country and travel in that freezing country for thousands of miles. As an example, the American Bison (Buffalo) is said to have traversed the plains area of the U.S. for thousands of years—but never, ever, migrated into colder lands, staying along the Great Plains for their entire existence. Neither have the Aracaris, Toucans, Anhinga, Toucanets, Motmots, Macaw, Quetzal, Cotinga, Topaz, Caracara, Hoatzin, Parrots, and Cassowary, to name a few, which are birds that live in the rainforests of Central and South America, have never voluntarily migrated to anywhere else, let along a colder climes.

Rainforest birds have never willingly migrated out of the rainforest

Of the 10,000 bird species, the vast majority are sedentary (non-migratory), while about 1800 of the species are long-distance migrants. Many bird populations migrate long distances along a flyway, with the most common pattern involving flying north in the spring to breed in the temperate or Arctic summer and returning in the autumn to wintering grounds in warmer regions to the south. But these migrations are seasonal with birds maintaining the same basic climate environment at all times.

The permanently frozen soil of Siberia, Canada, Alaska and Greenland has always been the home of the Arctic Musk Ox (Ovibos moschatus), though today its habitat has grown smaller. Nonetheless, this mammal has never ventured out of its cold environment, has never migrated to warmer climes

One of the points to be made is simply that animals, with very few exceptions—mostly in migrating bird species—remain in their environments from birth to death, though many scientists would lead us to believe otherwise in order to promote their migration beliefs and models. As shown above, animals living in cold environments stay in cold environments, while those in warm weather environments stay in those environments.

Take the Saber tooth cat (Smilodon gracilis and populator), its remains and considered habitat was (southern) North, Central and (northern) South America. Fossils have been discovered in the La Brea asphalt deposits (Tar Pits) in Los Angeles, California, as well as at Talara tar seeps in Peru. It is believed that they lived in forest habitats, brushy plains and margins of woodlands—hardly an animal that would migrate into and across frozen tundra, let alone glaciated land. The largest collection of remains of the smaller cat species (Homotherium serum), was found in the Friesenhahn Cave in Texas, far from any cold, let along frozen, environment.

Scientists claim that the woolly mammoths' habitat was a cold and windy grassland that was a tundra like steep environment. It is claimed that “nearly all of these giants vanished from Siberia by about 10,000 years ago.” Other scientists claim they lived in the area now called Beringia and under hundreds to thousands of feet of icy water in the Bering Sea, killed off some 20,000 to 25,000 years ago as the area became colder during the “Last Glacial Maximum” and more barren, with the very last mammoths disappearing some 10,000 years ago from the north countries.

The problems with all of this, besides ones already stated, is that it violates a couple of very strong and highly understood factors: 1) The Earth is about 6000 years old, not only does Moses and Abraham tell us that, but the genetist Ann Gibbons (see earlier post in this series) showed that using the criteria discovered in 2002, suggests that mitochondrial DNA used to suggest a Mitochondrial Eve, said to date to 200,000 years ago, actually dates only to about 6000 years ago; 2) The oldest settlements discovered in the Americas have been shown to be in the Andean area of South America, with the next oldest in Mesoamerica, which suggests to archaeologists and anthropologists (not already steeped in Beringia) to claim a proven process of human development in the Americas from South to North!

Now, here is the kicker! Even if we concede the first point since there are so many critics who disbelieve in the Bible and Creationism, it is the second point that cannot be swept under the rug along with the Biblical or Creationist rejection. The South to North development is not based on any religious beliefs, ideas, or dogma! It is proposed by scientific people, both archaeologists and anthropologists, who have done “ground work” in the Americas and determined the dates through Scientific radiocarbon dating that cultural and building development is positively shown, without any claims to the opposite of such evidence, to have originated in the Andean area of South America and moved northward through Central America and into the southern United States.

Considered by Archaeologists to be the oldest city in the Americas, built about 5,000 years ago 120 miles north of Lima, Peru. It is only one of scores of ancient ruins uncovered in Peru that date far into B.C. times

People can make claims about a Land Bridge in Beringia, can make claims about a so-called migration pattern, can make claims about DNA, genetic groups and clans, or genealogies--but factual, observable, and unquestioning dating methods shows, without question, a specific South to North migration or development pattern in the Americas.

This, and this alone, should be sufficient for the most suspicious critics out there that migration in the Americas did not begin across the hypothetical land bridge from Siberia to Alaska!

Scientists can draw pictures and maps of claimed ancient migratory paths, but they cannot show any evidence of a north to south cultural development nor, especially, of any building, construction, roadways, metallurgy, textiles, mining, etc., etc., etc., that was superior in the north over what has been found and written about for decades in the south!

So we end with the beginning question: “Doesn’t Anyone Understand the Untenable Claims About Beringia?"