Happy Birthday Charles Darwin

[sasguru]

Indeed, Dave, my very point... but if one is labouring under the illusion that the universe was created in April 9th 4004 BC, it doesn't leave a lot of time for geological events... or evolution for that matter.

I've just come up with a beautiful scientific theory that fits all the evidence.

1. All religious fundamentalists are one salad short of a picnic.
2. Ergo, they must have had less time to evolve and develop.
3. Perhaps an alien intelligence did create these "secondary modern" humans on April 9th 4004 BC.
4. The rest of us "grammar school" humans have evolved over a much longer period.

It would certainly explain a lot.

[EternalOptimist]

flood great the

the best theory I ever heard was that the land bridge at the Bosphorus was broken about ten thousand years ago.

The result was that the med flooded into the black sea over the course of a few months and the peoples around the area were treated to a mega tsunami. The bad news for them was the water did not retreat much. The resulting displacement of peoples spread the story and the likely massive impact on literate societies made sure the memory stuck.

[sasguru]

I read this book a few years ago:

Noah's Flood : The New Scientific Discoveries About the Event that Changed History (Hardcover)

Interesting theory but wasn't totally convinced by the evidence.

[EternalOptimist]

sasguru

sasguru

chech this out

relativity before einstein

I aint an expert on this but I know theres not much new under the sun, not since the first amoeba said 'eek'. everything after that is just a variation on a theme

[DaveB]

The seashelss at the top of the alps are there due to the tectonic upheaval that created the alps in the first place. Now't to do with either evolution or floods of any description.

[sasguru]

But... but... I thought the presence of seashells at the top of the Alps was because of the Greate Floode, as in Noah...

Incidentally there is plenty of evidence that a great flood did in fact take place. Not sure what that has to do with evolution, though?

[sasguru]

Darwin was not the great originator.
Indeed, If I remember correctly, Charles Darwin got his interest in evolution from his dad. Charles refined this with some ideas of his own like 'survival of the fittest' plus he added a lot of empirical evidence.
A bit like Einstein really who also refined an earlier theory, his was not 'the theory of relativity' but 'the special theory of relativity'.

Didn't Einstein come uo with both the General and Special Theories of relativity? I'm not aware of anyone who even thought of this before?

[EternalOptimist]

Darwin was not the great originator.
Indeed, If I remember correctly, Charles Darwin got his interest in evolution from his dad. Charles refined this with some ideas of his own like 'survival of the fittest' plus he added a lot of empirical evidence.
A bit like Einstein really who also refined an earlier theory, his was not 'the theory of relativity' but 'the special theory of relativity'.

[sasguru]

Re Darwin not being the first:

Yes partially true. The theory of "transmutation" of species was around well before Darwin published the origin of species. However it was Darwin who provided hard evidence from specimens and observations he had collected from the voyage of the Beagle in South America and Australia, that species could, in fact, transmute.

Unfortunately for the Chicos if this world the evidence for evolution is overwhelming - if only they bothered to assess it, before spouting their verbiage.

[Lucifer Box]

It's never too late for a good beheading.

[Lucifer Box]

I'm disgusted. He should be beheaded.

[Churchill]

To Slashdot

"Today is the 197th anniversary of the great biologist Charles Darwin's birth. In response, some 450 Christian churches are celebrating Darwin's birth, saying, 'Darwin`s theory of biological evolution is compatible with faith and that Christians have no need to choose between religion and science.

Your thoughts Chico?