The smoldering of EVC

How about the book of Lascaux with it's anatomical depictions of animals living at the time they were made?The Cave Art Paintings of the Lascaux Cave
Lascaux Cave Paintings - Virtual Tour on VimeoDocuments made by humansDo those count?Enjoy

Reality. The bastards.

Well yes, but all sciences do that. Physics, biology, geology, chemistry, athioloigy?A study of atheists perhaps?Edited by RAZD, : .

You still have not presented any evidence or even argumentation to support your claims. But you obviously haven't thought your claims through. As usual. No, what you listed were inanimate objects that contain recognizable text in which maybe someone claims to have witnessed some event and reports on it, or someone records their observations and measurements of rocks, or a multitude of other things. Many of those measurements are performed by computer with the final output being the graphs and tables that are placed directly into the paper. "Legal documents, case histories, and yes even scientific documents" do not contain solely recordings of alleged eyewitness testimony. Scientific documents and case histories contain preserved samples, pointers to sites and measurements that are incorporated into the document by reference, and many other things that are not written by humans. For example, rocks are incorporated into scientific documents by reference.Face it, you just don't have the mental horsepower to hold your own in these discussions.

And, Faith, in your timeline, just how long was it between Cain killing Abel and Moses writing the report down? A few months? A couple of decades? "Close enough to be authoritative," sure - but how long is that?

I was attracted to forums because I needed websites that updated regularly with interesting material. I think blogs have taken over as the medium du jour for that kind of thing. Maybe you should set up the regulars with blogs, you know with that giant pile of spare time you have.

Oh about two and a half millennia I believe, so of course I'll have to say time isn't the crucial thing after all, won't I? So instead I'll point out what DOES matter: 1) Moses was a prophet who heard directly from God, and 2) the history of Adam and Eve and everything before the Flood would have been passed down orally by the trustworthy clans of the God-fearing line that led up to Noah. Noah himself lived three hundred years after the Flood and would have passed on his knowledge to his descendants, and then his son Shem, who had lived a hundred years before the Flood, also lived a hundred years into Abraham's life span and would have continued the transmission. Abraham's descendants then of course passed it on down to Moses. Time isn't the crucial thing here, but the fact that it got transmitted and written down by God-fearing witnesses is the important thing for us.

Hi Modulous,It's on the todo list. I have a little help now, but I think things are still going to be very slow.--Percy

Well well...I learned a new word!

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vituperation (vəˌt(y)o͞opəˈrāSHən,vīˌt(y)o͞opəˈrāSHən)
noun
bitter and abusive language.
"no one else attracted such vituperation from him"
synonyms: invective, condemnation, opprobrium, scolding, criticism, disapprobation, fault-finding;...

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Concerning this topic...I wonder if we are still smoldering? Is an eruption imminent?

Me, too!Edited by Pressie, : No reason given.

This one still is funny to me. We sure can and we sure do. Paternity tests as one obvious example. Edited by Pressie, : No reason given.

As in... the webpage is dying?Maybe, maybe not. I think Percy has the ability to trend such things as # posts/day or /month if you're really interested, though.Still seems to going on about the same level it was 4 years ago, as far as I can tell.
Which, to me, is best described as "very active" (as far as my personal experience with other forums goes, anyway).Based on such anecdotal information, not only is EvC "not smoldering" now... it never was in the first place. The OP here was just complaining as kids do. As in... are we about to get an explosion of new posters/more activity?
Possibly, I guess.I don't really see a trend for such a thing either, though.
I think it will continue on as it's always continued on... being "very active" and the topics will drift between religious/scientific/political/moral/evolution...Seems to be no end of ideas to keep talking about, anyway, as life generally creates new aspects/angles/viewpoints as we move along.

We're aging. After Percy is no more, has ceased to be, is bereft of life, rests in peace, is an ex-admin, etc. then what? Will Admin Jr. keep up the site for those of us who are still pining for the fjords?

I don't like the idea of me writing tens of thousands of posts over more than a decade and then one day them just disappearing and being unavailable to myself.I like reading my old posts from years ago whenever a necromancer comes along and resurrects a dead thread.I can see myself in the future enjoying reading the old stuff I used to write.I wish I could get a dump of my posts from the database on a thumb drive.Percy, I'll pay you.

Gee whiz, you poor atheists have to argue with unscientific creationists. If only there were someone who believed in an old Earth who was willing to discuss the Bible rationally and scientifically. I'm sure it's such a person came along you would No Doubt be deliriously happy to finally talk to someone who is rational and scientific.EvC Forum: Theia and the flood