Evolutionists Concede Early Humans Could Walk Normally

[TerranceL]

Why do you think physical archaeological and historical evidence is sillyness?

Because history and science contradicts the silly Darwin cult?

There is absolutely zero evidence that these creatures actually existed.

 

[Agonaces of Susa]

There is absolutely zero evidence that these creatures actually existed.

Why do you call physical archaeological evidence and the written historical record "absolutely zero evidence"?

Because you're a history denier?

"...I believe it is only fair to acknowledge an underlying and totally sincere scientific disbelief in the historical record." -- Ralph E. Juergens, engineer, 1972

 

[TerranceL]

Why do you call physical archaeological evidence and the written historical record "absolutely zero evidence"?

I call it what every other intelligent person calls it. Mythology.

Show us a merman skeleton.

 

[Agonaces of Susa]

I call it what every other intelligent person calls it. Mythology.

"... the only explanation possible is that the legends must be true." -- John H. Parker, archaeologist, The Archaeology of Rome, 1877

"... what is myth to-day is often history to-morrow." -- Lewis Spence, translator, July 1908

"... at the basis of all myths, particularly nature myths, there is a real fact, but during a subsequent period the material was given its present mythical character and form." -- Johannes Riem, author, 1925

"Facts are facts, and the Cult's so-called mythology has certain facts behind it." -- Isaac Asimov, author, 1941

"... all the talk, all the legends, must be true." -- Paige W. Christiansen, historian, The Story of Mining in New Mexico, 1975

"By becoming fact it does not cease to be myth...." -- C.S. Lewis, author, 1977

"... the word 'myth' does not necessarily carry a connotation of falsehood...." -- Manuel Alfonseca, computer scientist, July 1998

"Year after year, science finds explanations, scientific reasons behind all the legends. They think this proves history was not as myth has shown it, but in fact it proves that all the myths were true." -- Robert Brown, writer, 2005

"Myths have no point to make. They are, in fact, history." -- Jno Cook, author, November 2009

Show us a merman skeleton.

Show us the missing link.

 

[Naraoia]

Agon must have a giant file of mined quotes with tags for faster navigation.

 

[CACTUSJACKmankin]

Lord of the Rings is more realistic than the bible. potayto potahto.

No wonder you're Jewish.

What's that supposed to mean?

 

[Agonaces of Susa]

What's that supposed to mean?

Do you think the Lord of the Rings is more realistic than the history of the Jewish people, yes or no?

 

[Nathan Poe]

Is the Acropolis a myth?

Are you saying it's an alien landing zone?

 

[Lord Emsworth]

So did we live in trees or did we live in caves? I'm so confused.

You don't think it is possible for trees to grow in caves?

 

[Agonaces of Susa]

Are you saying it's an alien landing zone?

The Acropolis is named after a merman so if the merman doesn't exist then what is the Acropolis named after?

 

[Nathan Poe]

The Acropolis is named after a merman so if the merman doesn't exist than what is the Acropolis named after?

The one in Athens was named for a mythical figure named Cecrops.

Or am I to understand that in your world, it is utterly impossible for a mythical/fictional character to be the inspiration for a real place?

Refresh my memory -- you're still claiming to have studied logic, right?

 

[Agonaces of Susa]

The one in Athens was named for a mythical figure named Cecrops.

It's named after a merman who was very real.

Do you claim that the Babylonians, the Jews, and the Dogon were all conspiring with the Greeks using timemachines in order to corroborate the Greek myth?

Or am I to understand that in your world, it is utterly impossible for a mythical/fictional character to be the inspiration for a real place?

"... the only explanation possible is that the legends must be true." -- John H. Parker, archaeologist, The Archaeology of Rome, 1877

"... what is myth to-day is often history to-morrow." -- Lewis Spence, translator, July 1908

"... at the basis of all myths, particularly nature myths, there is a real fact, but during a subsequent period the material was given its present mythical character and form." -- Johannes Riem, author, 1925

"Facts are facts, and the Cult's so-called mythology has certain facts behind it." -- Isaac Asimov, author, 1941

"... all the talk, all the legends, must be true." -- Paige W. Christiansen, historian, The Story of Mining in New Mexico, 1975

"By becoming fact it does not cease to be myth...." -- C.S. Lewis, author, 1977

"... the word 'myth' does not necessarily carry a connotation of falsehood...." -- Manuel Alfonseca, computer scientist, July 1998

"Year after year, science finds explanations, scientific reasons behind all the legends. They think this proves history was not as myth has shown it, but in fact it proves that all the myths were true." -- Robert Brown, writer, 2005

"Myths have no point to make. They are, in fact, history." -- Jno Cook, author, November 2009

 

[Nathan Poe]

It's named after a merman who was very real.

Then why doesn't the Acropolis have a so much as a fishtank?

Do you claim that the Babylonians, the Jews, and the Dogon were all conspiring with the Greeks using timemachines in order to corroborate the Greek myth?

Ok, back up a second -- what are you babbling about?

"... the only explanation possible is that the legends must be true." -- John H. Parker, archaeologist, The Archaeology of Rome, 1877

The only explanation possible is that John H. Parker went off his meds.

"... what is myth to-day is often history to-morrow." -- Lewis Spence, translator, July 1908

And back to myth the day after.

Are you allergic to context, or is it more of a phobia thing?

"... at the basis of all myths, particularly nature myths, there is a real fact, but during a subsequent period the material was given its present mythical character and form." -- Johannes Riem, author, 1925

Which doesn't support your argument, since you're claiming the present mythic character is the real fact.

"Facts are facts, and the Cult's so-called mythology has certain facts behind it." -- Isaac Asimov, author, 1941

No doubt you're quoting one of Asimov's numerous works of fiction.

"... all the talk, all the legends, must be true." -- Paige W. Christiansen, historian, The Story of Mining in New Mexico, 1975

Which legends? Do you know/care?

"By becoming fact it does not cease to be myth...." -- C.S. Lewis, author, 1977

And you conclude form this that all myths are facts.

Logic education, right? riiiiight...

"... the word 'myth' does not necessarily carry a connotation of falsehood...." -- Manuel Alfonseca, computer scientist, July 1998

I've always known that -- the trick is separating the grain from the chaff.

You, Ag, have a nose for chaff.

"Year after year, science finds explanations, scientific reasons behind all the legends. They think this proves history was not as myth has shown it, but in fact it proves that all the myths were true." -- Robert Brown, writer, 2005

Another fiction writer you're reading as fact?

"Myths have no point to make. They are, in fact, history." -- Jno Cook, author, November 2009

And yet another?

 

[Agonaces of Susa]

Then why doesn't the Acropolis have a so much as a fishtank?

Because the Earth grew to the point where the Acropolis is no longer submerged.

"... I credit those who say it, and myself very much believe it to be the case; for I have seen that Egypt projects into the sea beyond the neighboring land, and shells are exposed to view on the mountains, and things are coated with salt, so that even the pyramids show it, and the only sandy mountain in Egypt is that which is above Memphis;" -- Herodotus, historian, ~430 B.C.

"All marine fossils from 200 million years ago or earlier are found exclusively on continental locations -- just as expanding Earth theory predicts. That's because all large marine environments pre-Jurassic were epicontinental seas -- not oceans. Incredibly, if we deny expanding Earth theory, all the pre-Jurassic oceanic marine fossils must have vanished, along with all pre-Jurassic oceanic crust, as well as all of the fossils of all the trans-Pacific taxa that simply 'walked' from one location to the other. Hmmm. Even your mainstream fixist geologist counterparts of the first half of the twentieth century didn't have to accept that many miracles." -- Dennis J. McCarthy, geoscientist, October 2003

Ok, back up a second -- what are you babbling about?

You think the Babylonians, Jews, and Dogon, all used timemachines to time travel to ancient Greece and learn about mermen in order to corroborate their myth?

 

[Nathan Poe]

You think the Babylonians, Jews, and Dogon, all used timemachines to time travel to ancient Greece and learn about mermen in order to corroborate their myth?

Still not sure what you're babbling about.

 

[Nostromo]

He's a bit like Bumblebee from Transformers (or the Junkions for those that remember the original), constantly babbling in other peoples' voices.

 

[CACTUSJACKmankin]

Do you think the Lord of the Rings is more realistic than the history of the Jewish people, yes or no?

If by history of the Jewish people we include the sun standing still and the red sea parting then yes. Walking trees is more in agreement with the laws of physics.

 

[Agonaces of Susa]

If by history of the Jewish people we include the sun standing still and the red sea parting then yes.

That's not what I mean. When the Sun stayed it was observed by the entire world not just the Jews.

"Thus the whole period is eleven thousand three hundred and forty years; in all of which time (they said) they had had no king who was a god in human form, nor had there been any such either before or after those years among the rest of the kings of Egypt. Four times in this period (so they told me) the sun rose contrary to experience; twice he came up where he now goes down, and twice went down where he now comes up." -- Herodotus, historian, Book II, ~440-420 B.C.

"Then, it was then that Zeus changed the radiant paths of the stars, and the light of the sun, and the bright face of dawn; and the sun drove across the western back of the sky with hot flame from heaven's fires, while the rain-clouds went northward and Ammon's lands [Egypt] grew parched and faint, not knowing moisture, robbed of heaven's fairest showers of rain." --Euripides, playwright, Electra, 408 B.C.

"There did really happen, and will again happen, like many other events of which ancient tradition has preserved the record, the portent which is traditionally said to have occurred in the quarrel of Atreus and Thyestes. ... how the sun and the stars once rose in the west, and set in the east, and that the god reversed their motion, and gave them that which they now have as a testimony to the right of Atreus. " -- Plato, philosopher, The Statesman, 360 B.C.

"... the day was retarded in contrariety to nature, and the sun delayed." -- Plutarch, historian, 1st century

"In the lifetime of [Emperor] Yao the sun did not set for ten full days and the entire land was flooded." -- Johannes Hübner, evangelist, 1729

"According to a different account, which found favour with the Latin poets, the sun reversed his course in the sky, not in order to demonstrate the right of Atreus to the crown, but on the contrary to mark his disgust and horror at the king for murdering his nephews and dishing up their mangled limbs to their father Thyestes at table." -- James G. Frazer, translator, 1920

"... when the Duke of Lu-yang [Huai-nan-tse] was at war against Han, during the battle the sun went down. The Duke, swinging his spear, beckoned to the sun, whereupon the sun, for his sake, came back and passed through three solar mansions." -- Alfred Forke, philosopher, 1925

"It is said that in this province [Titicaca] the people of ancient times tell of being without light from the heavens for many days, and all of the local inhabitants were astonished, confused, and frightened to have total darkness for such a long time. Finally, the people of the Island of Titicaca saw the Sun come up one morning out of that crag with extraordinary radiance." -- Bernabé Cobo, historian, 1990

"According to the legend, the ancient peoples [of Lake Titicaca] had been without light for many days." -- Clive L. N. Ruggles, archaeoastronomer, 2005

Walking trees is more in agreement with the laws of physics.

I am well aware that Plate Tectonics requires trees to walk across oceans but that is besides the point.

 

[Nostromo]

That's not what I mean. When the Sun stayed it was observed by the entire world not just the Jews.

Strange that nobody else bothered to jot down a note of such an occurrence.

 

[Nathan Poe]

Strange that nobody else bothered to jot down a note of such an occurrence.

Except in the "records" of poetry, drama, religion, and other assorted fictions.