However, if you asked the following question to those who tell the natural selection story to the children, then many scientists have the habit of keeping silent and reserving the right to not answer,
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What are the probabilities that the population would have reached 6 billion persons
during each of the seasons of 14,000 years that precede the recent 7,000 years?
They would probably look at you like you were nuts, then say that the probability was 0, since the world population didn't reach 6 billion until the 20th century.
Out of curiosity, what point do you imagine you are going to make from this response?
Also, on what do you base your claim that "many scientists have the habit of keeping silent and reserving the right not to answer?"
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus. -- Thomas Jefferson
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and non-believers. -- Barack Obama
We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat
It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a
naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for
magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate