Uncle Davey wrote:
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>>Why not one thousand yeasr ago. That's also a nice round number. Or a
>>hundred thousand yeras ago. Also a n ice round number. A million yeras
>>ago? Ten million years ago?
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>>Do you have any evdience for a 10,000 year old earth (other than your
>>say-so)? No? Then why shoudl we give a flying fuck HOW old you think
>>it is?
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>
> If you want to believe it was a thousand years ago, then what about the fact
> that we have detailed history going back longer than that?
Omphalos.
You do know that that is, right Davey?
>
> A hundred thousand years ago is ten times longer than we actually need.
>
Says you. <shrug>
>
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>>>>>I don't believe that things that speciate can cross these kinds, and
>>>>>that becomes then the definition of the Kind.
>>>>
>>>>It doesn't matter what you believe.
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>>>
>>>I don't know why you ask me then, if it doesn't matter.
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>>I believe that speciations CAN cross these kinds.
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>>Why is my belief wrong and your belief is right (other than your say-so).
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>
> Show me a speciation crossing a kind
Humans speciating from apes.
, and your belief will be right, and
> I'll have to do a re-think.
>
Show me a barrier that stops a species from crossing to another "kind"
(first, though, you'd have to define a "kind", which you don't want to
do). Then I will be the one re-thinking.
I'm not holding my breath waiting.
>
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>>>
>>>>Anyone can say that they believe
>>>>that the universe began last Thursday, and that would be impossible to
>>>>falsify.
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>>>
>>>There we are then. You admit you can't disprove my faith.
>>>
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>>And you can't disprove Sun Myung Moon's faith that he is the Son of God
>>and the Younger Brother of Jesus. <shrug>
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>>So what.
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>
> So nothing. If he's right, then we're both done for. All I can do is believe
> he isn't.
And we should care about your belief because . . . . ?
Why is your belief any better than his belief?
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> I can't prove it.
>
No shit.
So why waste time arguing about it? Why not spend time arguing more
substantive matters, such as whether angels had an omphalos.
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