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To: John Valentine

Still tricky to say “the evidence”. It’s unscientific to look at physical material and backstory it into being “evidence”. Nobody was around to observe Toba either.


52 posted on 12/15/2013 6:24:49 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I didn’t witness my own birth either, but I’m 99.99% sure it happened.


84 posted on 12/15/2013 10:16:18 AM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: Olog-hai

It’s hard to know where to begin. There is nothing whatsoever “tricky” about looking at the natural world and finding evidence in its “physical material”. That evidence can tell us much not only about its present state, but also about the past.

As for Toba, there were plenty of people around to see the eruption, but no one nearby survived, and even if some had, they would all be dead by now, so their evidence would be discounted by you. The notion that the world came into existence at the moment of your birth is solipsistic and not the least bit scientific.

I think you are more than a little bit silly.


86 posted on 12/15/2013 10:26:50 AM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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