"John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote in
news:rRJY8.63879$P%6.4315616 at news2.west.cox.net:
>> "Angilion" <angilion at ypical.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:3d333c95.21227708 at news.freeserve.net...>> On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 19:18:30 GMT, "John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> >"OhSojourner" <ohsojourner at aol.com> wrote in message
>> >news:ce660175.0207141147.10aa9d8 at posting.google.com...>> >> John Knight wrote:
>>>> [..]
>>>> >> >But to the rest of the normal people in the country, namely the
>> >> >91% who reject this "theory" of evolution,
>> >>
>> >> Do you have a cite for this claim? (A non-subjective one)
>> >
>> >Well, it's a bit difficult to come up with a "non-subjective" cite
>> >for public opinion, as public opinion is precisely that--subjective.
>> >
>> >The Gallup Poll, where it has its serious credibility problems,
>> >shows
> that
>> >only 9% of Americans accept the "theory of evolution" as its been
>> >historically defined:
>> >http://christianparty.net/gallupcreation.htm>>>> Well, the sample size is large enough (1000) *if* it was a random
>> selection from across the whole of the USA, and it does show that
>> only 9% of the people questioned believe that God had *no part*
>> in the development of humanity.
>>>> It is evidence that most people in the USA do not believe in the
>> theory of evolution. It is not evidence that the theory of evolution
>> is wrong, nor is it evidence that the theory of creationism is right.
>> There cannot be any evidence of the latter, by definition, as it
>> is a matter of faith.
>>>> As an aside, why do you believe that all known forms of dating
>> material are wildly incorrect? If humanity is only 3000 or 6000
>> years old (both figures are given on the above website), all the
>> dating of all human remains or human-created items older
>> than 3000?6000? years must be wrong. Or are you arguing that
>> there were people on Earth before humans?
>>>> The main problem with these long timeframes are the known population
> growth rates of humans, which are mostly linked to
>http://christianparty.net/population.htm>> To summarize, at the rate the US population grew (not counting
> immigration), with abortion and the pill, it would take only 1,200
> years to grow from 2 people to 6 billion. Even at the slow rate the
> UK has grown lately, it would take only 1,800 years.
>> Now without the pill and abortions, it would take only 900 years, and
> at the rate African populations grow, only 600 years.
Do you account for Acts of God which may result in draconian reduction in
population, locally *and* globally? Such things as earthquakes, heat
waves, cold snaps, mountains explodin, tornadoes, desease, accidents, wild
predators who enjoy muching on your children, pissing off your neighbouring
king, molten rock which flows out of a perfectly good mountain for no
particular reason, rainfalls which last for weeks followed by really
impressive flooding?
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"...What you have to understand, young lady, is that the Greeks, not
content with dominating the culture of the Classical world, are also
responsible for the greatest, some would say the only, work of true
creative imagination produced this century as well. I refer of course to
the Greek ferry timetables. A work of the sublimest fiction. Anyone who
has travelled the Aegean will confirm this..." Professor Watkin - Dirk
Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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