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Article #31652Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:
From: Daniel Packman
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 02:17
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 02:17
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In article <RpEBd.1912312$SM5.148071@news.easynews.com>, Sam Stone <sirian@mental.org> wrote: >Daniel Packman wrote: ...... >> Excellent. It does seem that the historical ubiquity >> of flood myths is understandable in this context. >Well we seem to have agreement on that aspect. >Can we also posit that the ubiquity implies a periodicity of catastrophe >impacting human society and technology? Sure. Periodicity is implicit in the phenomenon. Such large scale floods have naturally affected human society and technology. But evidence of technologically advanced ancient civilizations is quite another business. -- Daniel Packman NCAR/ACD pack@ucar.edu
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