RE: Evolution/creation 2
August 8, 2012 at 1:55 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2012 at 2:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 8, 2012 at 1:43 pm)Undeceived Wrote: Research "ancient megafauna":
http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/otherprehi...ammals.htm
In prehistoric times--or "pre-Flood' as creationists say--organisms were generally larger. This was a result of a denser, milder atmosphere. Evolutionist scientists can't really explain how the earth arrived at this high-pressure atmosphere, but creationists theorize a water vapor canopy (referenced in Genesis 1:7). Higher pressure allows for thicker body structures and longer life. Judging by the ages in giant tortoises today, large dinosaurs may have lived hundreds of years. The same goes for humans.
Cain married his sister, just as Abraham married his half-sister. At that point complications associated with incest had not yet accumulated. There were also less diseases, allowing for longer lives.
Evolutionary scientists (I'm going to assume you mean biologists when you say this) focus their study on living organisms, not the atmosphere. Creationists put forward a hypothesis (not a theory) about a vapor canopy, unfortunately it was a garbage hypothesis, would you like have a long, long discussion as to why that is? Tortoise's (and reptiles in general) longevity has exactly what to do with pressure? Why do those same organisms continue to live fantastically long lives today in the absence of this vapor canopy that never existed to begin with? The same "does not go" for humans, you've been misled. What sister? Oh hell, what cain? That story is so plainly and obviously metaphor (and a fucking good one, no less) that I am literally dumbfounded as to why christians wouldn't want to claim what is perhaps the only redeeming narrative in the entire fucking rag for what it is. People really don't know good fiction when they see it, do they?
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