Rick,
Let me start by apologising for my tone in these posts. You were right that many people in these 28 pages displayed much disrespect to others, myself included. And for that I'm sorry. I think I let myself get fired up and angry because every time I tried to make people see reason (in my eyes) all I got back was another passage from a book in the bible.
TPTP,
I don't know where to begin to respectfully disagree with what you just said in your last post. I honestly cannot understand why you are so set on your story. I truly think it's just like any collection of fairy tales you'd find in a Hans Christian Anderson book. HOW can you say with a straight face that everybody on earth is the descendant of Noah and his wife? And everybody before him was the descendant of Adam and Eve? It's complete nonsense IMHO. We know today that that breeding that close makes the chances of having mentally and physically handicapped children FAR more likely. It's just a preposterous argument. It makes no sense. Just like saying that the world is 8000 years old or that all the species on earth were herded 2 by 2 onto a boat. None of those stories make sense! People say that the bible is the word of God. It's NOT. It was written by men. Lots of different men added to it over a long period of time.
When I listen to people talking about the world and its evolution in terms of science and religious people talking about the world as being the creation of some supreme being, all I see are two types of people - those who are actually aware of their surroundings and are taking a realistic and objective look at the world around them, and those who have their head stuck firmly in the sand, clinging onto a fairytale explanation of the world which has no basis in reality which has been fed to them since childhood.
Please don't take personal offense to this, I'm not writing this post to inflame anyone or to look down on you. I'm just telling you I don't understand what you're on about.
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