It was always one of my dumb spots Allan. There were loads around on beaches where I was counting dog-whelk 'teeth'. I somehow missed them until I was shown what to look for. As for 'Africa' folding over the Matterhorn, this is yet another example of not being able to think in big time and how much one needs to know to see what evidence is. I can never really understand how buildings from comparatively recent times end up buried, presumably because this is not something we see in a lifetime.
On Friday, February 20, 2015 at 7:22:26 PM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote: > > Thats a long time.. > Fossils are not really hard to find its more a matter of knowing where to > look.. They are very much a part of the geological record in my home > state of Montana.. > One of the strangest records is the top of the Matterhorn wich is from the > african continent. > Weird but true.. > > > تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين > Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others > > -----Original Message----- > From: archytas <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 7:42 PM > Subject: Mind's Eye Re: The religious atheist > > Type II since I was 19. Just changed to a tablet that removes sugars from > blood via kidneys. Disrupts the rest of the digestive system less, which > has been a big problem the last ten years. > > I am still amazed by people who find fossils and how they sniff them out. > I may as well be hunting truffles without a pig. I have the same > difficulty with evolution and time, but guess I have no real concept of the > vastness of time I explored the idea of a civilization 4 billion years > older than ours that is no longer libidinal, do energy matter conversion > and so on - and found I lacked imagination. Must be my > zombie-moron-lack-of-diversity gene. I can't understand how we walked out > of the sea, or whatever precursor did. We have seen lizards evolve in real > time in the West Indies somewhere. I guess I can see survival mechanisms > in transition. Genetics and increasingly epigenetics do tell us a lot > about biological change. > > I'm not much concerned religious text gets so much wrong. Deprived of > modern science I don't think I would have a clue. We can invent stories > now and one looks much like another in terms of plot, genre and characters > from Attic tragedy and comedy. Visitations from gods and angels seem very > unlikely, pretty much like monetary policy. I favour looking at the stuff > as fiction, quite a common matter in history and source evaluation. > > The Mars trip is throwing up some interesting fuel-saving dodges One is > to chuck us out in front of the planet so its gravity pulls us in, and to > slow us down in its atmosphere to save braking fuel. This would leave > enough propulsion energy to get us back using a similar trick with Earth. > Europa is my preferred destination, though gravity and radiation effects > from Jupiter pose extra problems. Life at either venue would pose some > interesting questions, hopefully through a universal translator. > > On Friday, February 20, 2015 at 5:42:46 PM UTC, facilitator wrote: >> >> I'm in on the trip to mars when it becomes a round trip ticket. Hell, >> I'l go to Europa when the price is right! >> >> The fossil record doesn't bother me other than there really shouldn't be >> one. Not because they didn't exist but because a fossil in nature's world >> is an anomaly, not a given means of preservation. Dead things get eaten >> and usually don't wait for a massive world reaching demise. In the mythos >> when man was "placed" here as a teenager they weren't asked to start fresh >> but to "Replenish" which seems to indicate something was before which isn't >> now. So many fossils, so little time. Time does not favor evolution, >> unless there is an orchestrated change. Nature doesn't like a vacuum but >> it abhors change even more. Genetics favors things staying the same so >> that the food cycle remains constant and precipitously balanced. >> > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
