Posted on 02/08/2005 3:50:43 AM PST by PatrickHenry
good one, your education is showing again.
Very good, you answered my question by asking me the same question. You were on the debating team, weren't you? I can tell.
Yes, seriously, I do find that very interesting. The question came to my mind as I was researching my family tree. I find it amazing the many different people required for my existance, and each of their life stories, I can discover are always very fascinating.
Uncle daddy, where's my banjo!?
well, though I cannot prove the following, it does seem plausible from my study of human history, so factor this in: most people, even today in an age in which mechanized transport is widely available, spend their entire lives within thirty miles of where they were born.
almost certain WT was referring to the distal "inbreeding" which I have described.
Then why are you rejecting ID out of hand?
I'm pointing out that it was peer-reviewed under SOP, and that would make it "science" as we define science.
Not me. I average over 4000 miles between where I was born and where I live. (I say average, because I am always traveling LOL!) I once had 3 simultaneous apartments (with three rental cars parked at airport long term parking) in three different cities, one on each coast, I was flying so much.
hmmmm ...
He doesn't identify by name the three scientists who reviewed the work.
No, I didn't. But at your insistence, here’s my address:
According to current theory, Chinese writing first appeared about 1300 to 1200 B.C. (link). You may also find the below quote from here of interest.
Chinese historiographers traditionally began their accounts of Chinese history with the foundation of the Xia Dynasty in the 21st century B.C., followed by the Shang Dynasty roughly half a millennium later, but the reliability of these accounts is at issue, since writing did not appear in China until about 1300 BC and the accounts were written many centuries after the event.
It appears that Chinese writings on early history do not reach back in time to cover any postulated period for the Flood. Even if they did, there's no reason to accept the accounts as accurate.
WOW! Anyone read all that? Honestly, anyone?
yeah, I fall well outside that class, myself.
otoh: most folks don't.
certainly, before the advent of steam power, most folks didn't.
"ID" is a movement designed to destroy the credibility of evolutionary theory. So far, the best argument "ID" has is that "we don't know therefore God did it".
yes, and it took several hours to do so.
I don't think he was, I think he was referring to my inbredness, you know, a weak attempt at a slam.
Also, the advances in the knowledge of nature in the 400-plus years via the scientific method have been exponentially greater than those that occurred in the 3500 years that Hindu-Arabic numerals were used before science.
And the fellows who cooked up Hindu numerals figured the Earth was supported by 16 elephants :-)
Thank you for the interesting link. It says that Chinese writing was FULLY developed by 1200 BC and thus had been in use for centuries prior to that.
What were the pillars made of that the fellows that cooked up the Bible thought the earth was supported by ...
You do not believe that the Bible supports incest?
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