dear alistair,
i did not just pull figures from a hat.
I never said that you did - nor would I have done, since I am not aware that you possess a hat with 6,000 figures in it...
ok. take the current population and divide it down by thousands of years and you come exactly to about the aforementioned by population studies alone.
We've gotten into that language problem again, it seems. "Take the current population" - by which, if you mean the world's current population of humans, is indicative that you suggest "taking" just over 6 billion - "and divide it down by thousands of years" - what does this mean? - apart from "dividing down" meaning nothing (either one divides something by something else or one doesn't - "up" or "down" adds no meaning to this action), you do not say by what number you suggest dividing that population figure or why you advocate doing this
not to mention - how did SALT water lakes with FISH get stuck way up high on mountains in china and alaska and other places? and, don't say 'birds brought them there.' then there is the issue of actual mollusks, etc. being fossilized and found at very high altitudes.
I cannot say for certain, but then you cannot say for certain that there remains evidence of past marine like on the summit of Everest, either.
i would not be so bold as to make the claim 'this is wrong.'
Yet you make the claim that the opposite "is right"; why and on what grounds? The argument here seems to be one of "Susan says that the earth weas created some 6,000 years ago and, at that time, its entire surface was covered in water" and this is "right" despsite heaps of scientific evidence being to the contrary and despite the existence of not one shred of evidence to support such an idea.
for one thing - nobody is old enough to know. if you were 6,000 years old - i would believe you.
I'm not - but even if I were, why would you believe me just because I said so? Wouldn't you want also to seek corroborative scientific evidence?
just because some thing LOOKS older than it is doesn't mean it is.
No, Susan, that is as correct as I find it to be each time I accidentally look in the mirror...
take adam for instance. he was made an adult. why didn't God make him a baby. well - it's obvioius. no mother around to change his nappies and God is smart enough not to make Himself do that. although, he puts up with other messes.
Sorry, but what nonsense is this?
now, where were we? blush. the bible doesn't say a terrible lot about things of this nature. i vaguely remember something in the proverbs telling a young man to stay on one side or other of the street and not look at the hookers. something like 'young man - this will get you nowhere.' or, 'in the end, there is poison in her lips.' don't quote me.
No, I wouldn't dream of quoting you when I don't even have the first idea what you're talking about, since I cannot perceive the connection between Biblical warnings about hookers, the developmental state in which Adam was supposedly born, the omnisicent and all-powerful God's prowess or otherwise at nappy-changing or any of the rest of it.
You know, Susan, there are times when I am tempted to begin to wonder whether you have pioneered a conceptual practice of expression that might best be termed "stream-of-unconsciousness"...
Best,
Alistair