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If i were God, here's what i'd devinely inspire MY tribe to write:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u19FbfT6CMU/T ... n+time.jpg

Pretty hard to mistake much in there, certainly not as ambiguous as the Bible. God's all powerful, but apparently that doesn't include the ability to write succinctly and clearly. Seems kinda important.
Also it'll be pretty obvious to the human race that something's up when the archaological evidence finds a tribe who suddenly and independently developed antibiotics, flight, radio, the germ theory of disease, etc.
"Skin of your teeth" eat your heart out.

Meh.

Lots of info there, but to someone even just a couple hundred years ago, it would be as useless as a cell phone. They wouldn't have the knowledge framework to make any sense of it at all. Odds are that it would be ignored, and even if they knew it was important, it would probably be treated/interpreted as some sort of spiritual document.

Reminds me of a moment in an old novel I read, where a society (who turned out to be in a multi-generational trip to a distant star system) had lost all sense of science, and Physics textbooks were being interpreted as spiritual/social ideas(e.g. "gravity is attraction between two bodies, related to distance - it's about love!").

During WW2 we had a airfield on a island with a quite primitive tribe of locals. Planes would fly in and out, GI's would give food and medical attention to the locals. Then of course the war ended and we left. To this day the local still make twisted grass effigies of airplanes. A new religion starting perhaps? If left alone how long before the GI's are made into deities ?

woodchip wrote:During WW2 we had a airfield on a island with a quite primitive tribe of locals. Planes would fly in and out, GI's would give food and medical attention to the locals. Then of course the war ended and we left. To this day the local still make twisted grass effigies of airplanes. A new religion starting perhaps? If left alone how long before the GI's are made into deities ?

Yep, the cargo cult phenomenon. It's both fascinating and a little bit sad, I think.

Yes, because we all know how much monkeys care about making sense. This thread is bananas.