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What a strange thing to say.
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RE: What a strange thing to say.
Actually the mechanism in question isn't all that amazing. That there is a mechanism, sure...that's pretty sweet. Most of the things a plant does are actually mechanical responses, we've been botanists for nearly 10k years. In fact, by the time the bible was written, we commanded in immense body of knowledge pertaining to agriculture and had hybridized nearly all modern crops from a small handful of parent flora. Ag wasn't a mystery to the people of the bronze age, they were actually becoming quite good at it, the first "green revolution" was about to go down.

The guy who wrote that sermon appears to be confusing dormancy with death, I'm still not over it yet.
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RE: What a strange thing to say.
...and one of the first things those bronze age people did was to pay for some full time religion. Worship (large)
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RE: What a strange thing to say.
(July 28, 2011 at 7:41 am)DaveD Wrote:
(July 27, 2011 at 8:38 pm)Cinjin Wrote: First of all .... no, that's not amazing. It's just a cool fact of nature. It's not magic, stupid.

I have one tiny, semantic, quibble with this; I think it is amazing, but then nature often is.
Reality is far more amazing and awe inspiring than made-up, reality-avoiding stories.

Oh Indeed, I find it mystifying while people don't get utterly amazed when they read about various scientific discoveries. Compared to what we have discovered about the universe and are continuing to, the stories in the bible is not the least bit amazing.
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