athiest how do you explain the following if there are no deities (Gods)?

Stop trying to get me to explain what i think.

I think what i think for a reason , you will not and can not change that.

If a god appears before me now i will have a change of heart but until that day you can chuck every single thing at me it will not work!

Yahoo is not a church , nor is it holy ground , go preach to someone gives a crap.

Those were not impossible tasks for the people of the time. We know quite a lot about how the Egyptians built the pyramids. It involved years of back breaking work by a large number of people. And some very good engineers. The same goes for the other things you mention. Some of the houses built to house the workforces still exist today.

It has been figured out how the Nazca lines were done, it was very clever and difficult to do, but not impossible. People may not have known a lot of the things we know today, but their brains were just as good, there were even a few geniuses.

Piri Reis Map, has been studied a great deal, it is generally concluded that it's information was partly copied from other maps of the time, including one drawn by Columbus, Piri said so himself, and that he had seen other even older maps. The map is quite accurate in some ways, but not in others, there were far more accurate maps made by the end of the 1500's. Human beings have been travelling the sea's for exploration and trade for many centuries before this map was made.

Trouble is none of them are impossible for people of that time.

The Nazca lines are prayer lines people would walk along.

The Piri Reis Map shows the extent of exploration of the new world at that time, it would be a mystery if it was done pre-Colombus, not after.

Stone Henge, it's a henge, bigger, but not unlike many other henges up and down the Atlantic seaboard.

The Moai of Easter Island are well within the capabilities of the local people.

The Pyramids, there's still some controversy about the building methods used, but we know they are kingly tombs, not an alien in sight.

There are lots of explanations that don't involve gods at all. Ancient populations were not the savages some people presume them to be.

For explanations of the pyramids try here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_cons...

For Stonehenge look here:

http://www.stonehenge.co.uk/history.php

For the Moai look at this site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/easteris...

As for the Piri Reis map of 1513, of course it looks like the world viewed from above, thats exactly what a map is supposed to look like! But accurate maps can be produced by surveyors on land and at sea. A pretty accurate globe was produced by Gerard Mercator within 60 years of the Piri Reis map being drawn. His techniques are wll recorded and there is no mysterious power involved.

The Nazca lines have also been reproduced using simple surveying techniques, without assistance from the air, by a man named Joe Nickell. See this link for his account of it:

http://www.csicop.org/si/8301/nazca.html

It sounds like you have been treading too much Eric Von Daniken. Besides, there is a huge difference between a highly advanced alien (that must have evolved somewhere) and an entity powerful enough to create a universe.

"When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F Roberts.

All that you quote are man made and nothing to do with gods!!

Stone henge and the pyramids were used to speed the departeds souls into the next word in comfort - the idea of a soul and an afterlife later being stolen by christianity!!

Any map found supposedly showing the earth from space would either look unlike anything we see today or be a forgery - Guess what it is?!!

Your posts suggest you are very young but nevertheless you are asking questions even if you tend to jump to conclusions and try to present them as facts!!

Keep going - that is the path of learning and true knowledge!!

They had vast amounts of cheap or slave labour available and plenty of simple but effective tools and the knowledge built up over previous generations. They also took years to build these great constructions.

Are you saying that you believe the gods popped down with a DIY guide and some power tools, or gave ancient peoples some sort of superpowers?

I am failing to be open minded as I think this a case where you need to get the tinfoil back in your hat.

so by default either of those have to be a god? why can it just be what it is and not a god?. If some being of superior intelligence did help create these wonders does it automaticly means it had to be a god, why not just say its aliens or some superior bieng from another planet visted earth and built these structures. Unless you consider aliens to be our god its just sounds like wishful thinking.

That is aliens, not gods, different :)

I think the key word in the Piri Reis Map is "allegedly"

"they are impossible tasks to archive thousands of years ago without the help of superior intelligence or deities (gods) for regular bronze age humans..."

should read

"they are impossible tasks to archive thousands of years ago without the help of [many people] [and] [levers] ([devices to make labor easier that have existed for a long time]) for regular bronze age humans..."

Aliens

Ancient people knew more than we give them credit for. I mean the Egyptians had batteries. There's no telling what else they could do.

I'd rather figure out what they knew and how they did what they did then fill in the blanks with god.

P.S. your argument works just as well for proof of aliens.