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crashfrog
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Message 21 of 159 (268455)
12-12-2005 9:46 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by Carico
12-12-2005 8:55 PM


Re: On scientific theories
But apes produce apes and humans produce humans.
Humans are apes. It's a broad taxon that includes all species of genus Homo, like humans.
And since there are too few fossils to map out human origins, then how can you say that the bible is wrong?
Too few fossils? We have hundreds of hominid specimens. Where did you get the idea that we had "too few?"
It says in Genesis that God created the sun to give light by day and the moon to give light by night.
But the moon does not always give light by night; sometimes it's completely absent. Sometimes the moon is out during the day. Rarely, during the day, the sun is completly blocked for a period of time, and day becomes night.
You see, your Bible fails to even predict these stupidly obvious predicitions. Or are you saying that the moon is never visible during the day?
It also says that the stars, sun, and moon were created to mark time and spiritual events which is exactly how we determine days, months and years.
Also wrong. Did it escape your notice that there's 12.39 lunar cycles per solar year, but only 12 months in a calendar year? Did it escape your notice that a solar year is 365.25 days long, but a calendar year is less than that?
If these objects in space are supposed to be keeping time for us, why aren't they synchronized to the month and year? Do you really believe that the best clock God could build runs slightly fast? "Blind watchmaker", indeed.

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crashfrog
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Message 42 of 159 (268612)
12-13-2005 1:09 AM
Reply to: Message 40 by Carico
12-13-2005 12:03 AM


And how many billions more nuerons are there in the human brain compared to the brain of a chimp?
None more billions. Human brains are proportionally larger in size, but not "billions of neurons" larger.
Therefore, chimps and cats have much more in common than chimps and humans.
Why? Chimpanzees walk, communicate, build tools and use them, and apparently, are too smart to have to contemplate God. Sounds like they have more in common with humans than you're prepared to admit.
But this is still a moot point because cats & apes or cats and humans or apes and humans still cannot interbreed, regardless of how many traits they have in common.
No, they can't now interbreed. But I asked you a question, once, that you couldn't answer. Do you remember it? Are you prepared to answer, yet?

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