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Dr Adequate
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Message 34 of 107 (408343)
07-02-2007 12:51 AM
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07-02-2007 12:13 AM


Re: Usual Junk Assertions
Not at all. The same would apply to any ancient peoples who do not exhibit the known ratios of time factored population and mental prowess: if any peoples are 60K years old - they would have most probably made it to the moon and back - 54,000 years ago ...
54,000 years ago their main technology involved banging rocks together. This would not allow them to fly to the moon.
... and their population would be some 100 trillion - even after factoring in all relevent issues such as deaths and deseases.
You have not factored in all relevant issues.
For one thing, you forgot that people have to eat.
It's these little oversights that make creationism so funny.

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Message 39 of 107 (408351)
07-02-2007 1:27 AM
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07-02-2007 1:18 AM


Re: Numbers are good
But I'm not trying to be too smart or dogmatic - we have to remember at all times that darwin's evolution - or the origins of humans - are unknown and not resolved even by *THEORIES*.
If we have to remember that at all times, would you mind telling us what you mean by it?
It is not an anomoly to have a variant view based on science and logic.
Perhaps not an anomaly, but it would certainly be a novelty. However, I do not see the science or logic in asserting that people of the Stone Age could have gone to the moon, or that the Earth can support a human population of 100 trillion.
Re the calculations relating to human population and mental prowess ratios, guess what - I got this from a desolate, barren, dry and fully documented and evidenced region of this planet: its called the Middle-east!
You were not asked the geographical origin of your figures, but simply what they are. Please show us the figures which prove that the Earth can support 100 trillion people.

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Message 40 of 107 (408352)
07-02-2007 1:29 AM
Reply to: Message 37 by IamJoseph
07-02-2007 1:23 AM


Re: Usual Junk Assertions
Exactly. But it happens to be the scenario in the middle-east, but only between 5000 to 6000 years ago - but w/o dispute!
What are you talking about? What scenario? Banging rocks together? Flying to the moon? How does this relate to technolgy 54,000 years ago?
You mean, other peoples in the earliest recordings of and by mankind never had this problem? Now that's more funny.
No, that's not what I mean, that's some nonsense you made up in your head.
What I mean is that you have not factored in all relevant issues; for one thing, you forgot that people have to eat.
This is why I wrote: "You have not factored in all relevant issues. For one thing, you forgot that people have to eat."
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Message 45 of 107 (408377)
07-02-2007 5:18 AM
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07-02-2007 3:09 AM


Re: Usual Junk Assertions
The banging of rocks and eating were items posited by yourself as pertaining to ancient humans. Now if the world pops and its mental prowess are known and observed - applicable over the last 6000 years from verifiable sources such as writings, nations, wars, kings, names and dates - then I put it to you that early mankind would have confronted these issues in the M/E - yet they manages to evolve from that point to now without resorting to 60,000 years: how do you account for it?
I nominated 54,000 because we know for a fact that from ancient, non-writting ancient peoples in the M/E upto now, and all the current world population and mental developments took 6000 years, so I subtract that figure from the alledged 60,000 given for aboriginal history. Unless they never emulated the known ratios of population and mental prowess of the known?
WTF?
You have still not explained how people 54,000 years ago could have gotten to the Moon.
This is common with all humanity - whether 6000 or 60,000. How does it apply?
Given any amount of time, the world's population cannot reach 100 trillion, because the world cannot feed that many people. This is a constraint on population which you have failed to take into account.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 56 of 107 (408455)
07-02-2007 9:44 PM
Reply to: Message 48 by IamJoseph
07-02-2007 5:57 AM


Re: Usual Junk Assertions
I did. Evidenced humanity's history says this took 6000 years to achieve.
And this tells us that it took 6000 years after the point at which we started writing history.
60,000 years ago, we were not writing history, hence we could not have gone to the Moon 54,000 years ago.
Are you saying someone is monitoring this situation - that 54,000 years ago, the population looked like it was going to overwhelm this planet - and this process was averted? And does this also satisfy the issue of mental prowess? Does'nt make sense!
No, I am not saying that. You are saying that. This is why it doesn't make sense.
What I am saying is that given any amount of time, the world's population cannot reach 100 trillion, because the world cannot feed that many people, and that this is a constraint on population which you have failed to take into account.
This is why I said: "Given any amount of time, the world's population cannot reach 100 trillion, because the world cannot feed that many people. This is a constraint on population which you have failed to take into account."

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Message 57 of 107 (408459)
07-02-2007 9:55 PM
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07-02-2007 5:50 AM


Re: Numbers are good
A 'seed' can include anything which is an internally derived factor.
The phrase "internally derived factor" gets zero hits on google. This is because it is a meaningless phrase which you made up.
Been there, seen it, had it. The problem with these sites is they assume a Talibanic, religious attitude: they never address the inconsistancies of their premies, as if they are not 'theories' but fact; and they consider no alternatives. Check it out again - you will find no mention of a direct seed linkage ...
Of course you will find no mention of a "direct seed linkage". This phrase also gets zero hits on google. This is because it is a meaningless phrase which you made up.
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I'm impressed. Not only are you completely ignorant of biology, but you've invented a fake biology all of your own which even your fellow-creationists haven't heard of.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 62 of 107 (408501)
07-03-2007 5:38 AM
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07-03-2007 4:24 AM


Made Up Descriptive Terms
I used a made up descriptive term to express a point ...
Yes. You keep on using "made up descriptive terms".
Now, can you say what you want to in English, rather than in some private stupid language that you made up in your head?

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Dr Adequate
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Message 63 of 107 (408522)
07-03-2007 9:18 AM
Reply to: Message 60 by IamJoseph
07-03-2007 4:24 AM


Re: Numbers are good
heiroglifics
Please continue to teach me about ancient history, you know so much about it.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 66 of 107 (408556)
07-03-2007 12:19 PM
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07-03-2007 9:54 AM


Re: Made Up Descriptive Terms
One has to make up descriptive statements. What's so wrong in expressing a seed as internally derived - differentiating it from externally impacting evolution as per darwin?
What's wrong with it is that it's a language you've made up which no-one else speaks. "A seed as internally derived"; "externally impacting evolution"; these are phrases which you have made up and which do not mean anything.
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Dr Adequate
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Message 87 of 107 (408810)
07-05-2007 3:17 AM
Reply to: Message 68 by IamJoseph
07-04-2007 12:06 AM


Re: Made Up Descriptive Terms
Here's another one I made up: WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY MADE-UP STATEMENT - IS A SEED NOT AN INTERNALLY DERIVED FACTOR?
What's wrong with it is that the phrase "internally derived factor" does not mean anything.
If you want to ask questions about biology, learn the language of biology. Otherwise no-one will understand your questions.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 88 of 107 (408812)
07-05-2007 3:22 AM
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07-04-2007 11:57 PM


Re: On language aquisition
There is not a shred of evidence to back this up, of speech being gradually developed and evolving. There are no grads of 40K, 30K, 20K and 10K years! All of what we associate with speech endowed human developments and its history are only seen in the last 6000.
But this is not so. There are civilisations dating well before 6000 years ago. Try not to base your case on made-up stuff.

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Message 98 of 107 (408965)
07-06-2007 7:31 AM
Reply to: Message 97 by IamJoseph
07-06-2007 7:10 AM


Re: This isn't getting anywhere
What is evolution? To me, its one of the processes we see - no different from rain and gravity. So its fine to give this process a name, as representing 'changes' in life forms; its an academic, virtual reference, with no actual position existing. I mean we cannot capture a thing called evolution or its source, same as we cannot capture the equation or source of gravity in a lab. The issue of evolution becomes precarious when we consider that all systems in the universe are 'intergrated'; here we have to give evolution a place in a larger system.
As a process, I see more credibility in the host 'seed' than anything else being responsible for reproduction and all graduations, and that this needs no cross-species factor impacting for its viability. The issue of cross-species enters the picture in the quest to track the source and thread of life, from an evidential scientific methodology. However, there is also another factor which propells this quest: science and anything appearing in a theology become mutually exclusive, and sometimes this can lead to an agenda-based error in deriving a scientific conclusion.
What may be the problem here, is that when darwin encountered imprints of graduations in his research on life forms appearing in nature, he concluded that genesis was wrong, and his new found data correct. But another view could have been taken from the same research findings - without any conflict with genesis. This refers to the grads encountered by darwin can be limited to certain groupings of life forms, without cross-species, as stated in genesis. This validates darwin and genesis, excepting only in the tresholds of the graduations concluded by darwin's cross-species. But had darwin founded in alignment with genesis, it would conflict with the quest for a theology negating premise. I believe that in the latter mentioned quest, to promote cross-species and show it as a polar opposition to genesis, the cross-species premise had to be pursued, and controversial conclusions were made of the research data (retrovirus, etc). There is a blatant zeal to contradict anything in a theology - and this is understandable to a very large degree (there is hardly any science in most theologies), and the OT became cast in the same green bag. This even that Genesis is correct to a far positioned extent, contradicting only one aspect of darwin's theory.
I think it calls for playing Devil's Advocate here, and assume that genesis is correct. What is the resultant premise, if there is no cross-species grads, and only 'within-species' grads (disregard the species categorising ratios here)? I think only one conclusion becomes pertinent here, and non-surprisingly, it is the only unacceptable one for a large sector of science, R & D grants, and vocational career status: Creationism remains intact!
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Dr Adequate
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Message 101 of 107 (409074)
07-07-2007 6:40 AM
Reply to: Message 100 by IamJoseph
07-07-2007 3:13 AM


Re: This isn't getting anywhere
Genesis says they were the first life form with speech ...
What about the talking snake?
That speech is proven before the genesis dating is not conclusive by any means - not even as a theory. We have not a name or any history before 6000 - which is not dependent on writings.
Obviously we don't have direct evidence of speech before the invention of writing. This is inevitable, and gives us no warrant to supppose the two originated at the same time. We do, on the other hand, have archaeological evidence testifying to impressive achievements way before 6000, which couldn't have been achieved without communication.
Or do you propose that civilisation arose before language?

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