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Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:

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From: Rich Travsky
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 05:57
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Sam Stone wrote:
> 
> Daniel Packman wrote:
> > In article <8UMAd.7711429$6p.1212943@news.easynews.com>,
> > Sam Stone  <sirian@mental.org> wrote:
> > ......
> >
> >>http://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/science.shtml
> >>
> >>Statements Consistent With Physics .....
> >
> >
> > Consisten with is not the same as physics itself.
> 
> Yes I know, we've got that anal scientists narrow style to leap over...
> 
> > These "predictions" of nuclear processes and television
> > are so vague that they could be just about anything.
> 
> Bet you detest Nostradamus too.
> 
> > The reference to the Greenland Ice sheet all but
> > proves the lack of a global flood. Your followup
> > of global flooding coincident with global warming
> > is a prediction of widespread flooding, not a planetary
> > inundation.
> 
> Yes, that's a more accurate appraisal. I'm not promoting the idea that
> every single acre was simultaneously underwater.
> 
> In like manner the recent tsunami caused a robust 8' sea level increase
> in the Gulf.
> 
> > Periodic floods throughout the world are well
> > known. A planetary flood is contrary to physical evidence
> > and required by biblical literalists.
> 
> A planetary flood need not cover every inch of landmass, merely those
> areas of human habitation and lifestyle at the time it was recorded.

That really lowers the bar, eh? Except that people live at pretty high
altitudes. Tibet, for example... Was Tibet supposed to have been flooded
and wiped out too?

Oh, and what about the animals and plants?

RT
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Subject: Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 22:57:16 -0700
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