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We Evolved Pretty Quickly

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crashfrog
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07-10-2003 4:47 AM

What bugs me is movies where the inhuman villian condemns the entire human race, saying something like "the dinosaurs had their time, you've had yours" or the like.
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I mean, the dinosaurs had 100 million years or whatever. Human civilization has only been around for what, 10,000? Way less than 100 million - way less than 1 million, even.
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Seems hardly fair to me. Seems like we've got a little more time left on the meter, if you ask me.
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crashfrog
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07-23-2003 11:26 AM 		Reply to: Message 13 by truthlover
07-23-2003 11:16 AM

Crash? You're throwing me here. You don't listen to Rush Limbaugh, do you?
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Uh, lord no. (I sure did, though, once. Legacy of a mis-spent childhood. )
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It's possible we had villages in South America 60,000 years ago, and it's certain we had them there 20,000 years ago. Why don't those people count?
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They don't count because I'm a crappy historian. By which I mean to say that I picked a number off the top of my head that sounded reasonable. Obviously I was way off.
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So, 20,000 years, or even 200,000. Still way less than the dinosaurs.
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crashfrog
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07-23-2003 2:39 PM 		Reply to: Message 15 by mike the wiz
07-23-2003 1:36 PM

Well, I was throwing out numbers to support a point made in jest about movies. Which is different than making up numbers to support a worldview informed by a mistranslated book, and expecting the scientific community to follow suit.
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I was making a joke. But creationism IS a joke.
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crashfrog
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07-23-2003 6:20 PM 		Reply to: Message 18 by nator
07-23-2003 6:11 PM

when you start doing a lot of reading and research and putting together careful, informed posts,
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On the other hand if any of that could describe me, I'd be very surprised.
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I think we've gone terminally off-topic.
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