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Message 32 of 195 (151550)
10-21-2004 8:54 AM
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10-21-2004 8:44 AM


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This is untrue, to my knowledge........before Pasteur (who post-dated Darwin's theory, by a bit), it wasn't even known that there WAS microscopic life...
Presumably you mean before Anton Van Leeuwenhoek who died before Darwin was even born ?
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Father of Microbiology
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to see and describe bacteria (1674), yeast plants, the teeming life in a drop of water, and the circulation of blood corpuscles in capillaries

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Message 37 of 195 (151557)
10-21-2004 9:12 AM
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10-21-2004 9:02 AM


Well if you were taught that microscopic life was first discovered by Pasteur you were taught incorrectly. The material I quoted is not even obscure knowledge - we are after all talking about the man famous as the inventor of the microscope.
Pasteur's discovery was that microscopic life was the CAUSE of decay and not, as some believed, a product of it. I hope you can understand that the very existence of such a controversy requires the knowledge of microscopic life.

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Message 41 of 195 (151563)
10-21-2004 9:20 AM
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10-21-2004 9:06 AM


Actually I recognise this, it's Graham Hancock's latest.
I am afraid that the best that can be said of it is that it is less nutty than the earlier ideas he has put forward.
That there were inhabited areas that were flooded by the end of the Ice Age is well known. That Hancock's civilisation existed there is almost certainly false.

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Message 43 of 195 (151565)
10-21-2004 9:32 AM
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10-21-2004 9:17 AM


Darwin's theory speaks against spontaneous generation. It is directly against the older versions which had even mice coming into existence, and even against insects (the latter was disproven by Redi in 1668). Even the idea finally laid to rest by Pasteur had been challenged by Spallanzani in 1799. Nor did Darwin rely on the ideas of spontaneous generation disproven by Pasteur.
Just a moment...
Indeed, Pasteur's discovery did not hurt Darwin's ideas at all - it supported them. Common descent relies on life originating on no more than a few occasions - spontaneous generation strongly denies that. It is creationists who propose numerous seperate origins of life, not evolutionary scientists.
As for the complexity issue that, too does not hurt Darwin's theory significantly. After all, Darwin's theory deals with how life changes over time - not with how the first life came to be. Knowing the complexity of bacteria might have made the view that God created the first simple life appear more plausible at the time - but Darwin did not try to argue against that in On The Origin of Species

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Message 47 of 195 (151570)
10-21-2004 9:37 AM
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10-21-2004 9:23 AM


It's just one guy. He's got more reasonable over the years.

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Message 54 of 195 (151578)
10-21-2004 9:47 AM
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10-21-2004 9:39 AM


No, Darwin certainly did not rely on the idea that life regularly formed in soup and other foodstuff. I've already explained why that is against common descent.

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Message 57 of 195 (151583)
10-21-2004 9:54 AM
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10-21-2004 9:40 AM


Hancock has definitely put forward Atlantis theories in the past - but a lot of other people have too.
So who is this "Atlantis" guy with "overwhelming" proof ? Where can we see his arguments ?

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Message 60 of 195 (151587)
10-21-2004 9:56 AM
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10-21-2004 9:49 AM


I'm not sure of the meaning of your comment, except that it confirms that spontanteous generation is more in line with the views of the opponents of evolution as I have already stated.

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Message 63 of 195 (151593)
10-21-2004 10:09 AM
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10-21-2004 9:59 AM


I searched on the Science Channel's website ( http://science.discovery.com/ ) for Atlantis. The search returned nothing.

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Message 85 of 195 (151901)
10-22-2004 7:50 AM
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10-22-2004 7:32 AM


We've already had admins complaining that this is off-topic so I won't try to discuss the matter here.
I will just note that searching on Google for the combination of "Atlantis" and "Alto Plano" turned up postings on Graham Hancock's forum and no other relevant links. "Atlantis" and "orichalcon" turned up no relevant links. "Alto Plano" and "orichalcon" turned up no links at all.

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