(January 28, 2015 at 2:38 pm)Drich Wrote: red herring. We were not talking about just the bible or interpertation We were discussing world history and the evidence for it!Your argument comes down to potentially millions of people spending 38 years in an area and leaving no trace, because much smaller groups spending very little time left few traces. That you refuse to see the issue is not a problem for me, because as I've already pointed out I have no story to try and salvage. Which is why I didn't even bother with the logistics of watering and feeding a city-sized group of people and their livestock or dealing with the daily waste products (let me guess, they "repurposed" the hundreds of tons of fecal matter and urine produced every week?). And all this without building a single stone structure!
I guess now that you FIANALLY understand my arguement you are trying to run from it.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
