mediamogul Wrote:I love the "back in those days" arguments too about the world being more magical then. I think this is the same explanation for why people lived longer in the beginning of the Old Testament. Because they and the world were more "free from sin". But didn't god just drown the entire world because he judged the people in it to be "evil"?! Not one, not a few, not a city but the entire world! So much so that he believed it to be the only solution. Hell, you at least have to give the guy credit for admitting when he is wrong.
You think that's funny? People have actually suggested on this site that genetics worked differently back then, and that is how all of the animals were able to repopulate the world through inbreeding.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
