John, Scientists are free to indulge their fancy. Obviously there's little historic evidence to substantiate supposedly "prehistoric" events. For many science devotees, one basic premise is that nothing supernatural exists. In science to acknowledge the existence or act of God is an awful heresy. Of course the bible simply assumes that readers have implicit faith in the existence of God. Therefore the science nazis have to invent ways to discount biblical history.
Some of them can do this without being overtly arrogant and patently offensive, but many cannot. As far as I can tell, the "scientists" first tactic in arguing this position is to label anyone who doesn't agree an ignorant superstitious moron. While this may satisfy their own requirements for determining the winner of an argument, it seldom answers the objections of "science dissidents" or "science apostates". And of course the scientists in their cliques don't feel obligated to respect or cater to morons. For them, it certainly would be more gratifying to feed each other's egos, and pretend that all their theories have been "critically reviewed". When they are learned... As to some of your other points. I have long been fascinated by a science discipline referred to as "ethnobotany". This is a narrowly focused study attempting to discern the natural origins of domestic plant species. In fact, it is a singularly unproductive study, because it is generally found that the existence of domestic strains extends back before historic times. Nobody really knows for sure where the ancestors of most modern cultivated plants arose. The studies return results that are strikingly similar to the fruits of anthropologists efforts to find a proto-human ancestor. --- Mij Ebaboc ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
