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Quetzal, please tell me then why you were attracted to a forum labelled "If we are all descended from Noah ..."? It is obviously a thread concerning Bible apologetics, yet you find the subject "unutterably boring", inexplicably present and commenting.
Although somewhat irrelevant, I'll satisfy your curiosity. This thread had at one point an interesting argument concerning population genetic bottlenecks in which I participated. That issue has apparently been dropped. However, "hope oft springs eternal", hence my continuing to read the thread. In addition, you have made several interesting assertions, but rather than derail the thread any further, I forbore to comment. Again, I'm content to wait until you are prepared to discuss the scientific side of the equation.
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Thanks for the invite. Ya'll sho sound hospitable enough. I might just kick mah shoes off and sit a spell.
I doubt you will find me all that hospitable. Civil, perhaps - that very much depends on you. It's interesting that we are on opposite sides on so many levels - even your current profession. To someone who spent a great deal of time working on ecology, conservation biology, environmental baseline and land-use studies, as well as other issues relating to halting the destruction of, or developing rational use patterns in, rapidly vanishing Central American forests, the idea of a timber broker is unlikely to engender joy.
It promises to be a very interesting discussion.