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anglagard
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Message 193 of 352 (342229)
08-22-2006 1:15 AM
Reply to: Message 192 by Head Eagle
08-21-2006 8:24 PM


Palauxy River Tracks
As you can tell, this presents many problems for several disciplines.
Especially Young Earth Creationists as you can readily see from the following:
Arguments to Avoid Topic | Answers in Genesis
The Institute for Creation Research
Sometimes the false prophets have their own carnival tent. You may want to consider the damage you are doing to your cause when naively accepting as absolute truth claims from hucksters that your fellow creationists are running away from as though the very hounds of hell were nipping at their ankles.

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anglagard
Member (Idle past 866 days)
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From: Socorro, New Mexico USA
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Message 215 of 352 (493190)
01-07-2009 2:07 AM
Reply to: Message 210 by dillion howard
01-06-2009 4:24 PM


Re: Tall individuals is one thing...
dillion writes:
who ru to say whats fiction and nonfiction look at the size of reptiles today and millons of years ago
I r1. The structure of the human skeleton is such that their height can not exceed approximately nine feet without major modification due to the height/weight ratio in this gravitational field.
To exceed this limitation we are looking at peg legs as in elephants (#1 in land dwelling weight), Hippos (#2), or Rhinos (#3). Among fossils, those real big plant eaters were essentially large elephants with extra neck and tail when it comes to structure.
The only way to get viable human skeletons over nine feet is going to require a lot of knuckle walking, if not a total rejection of bipedalism.
Sorry, blame Newton for limiting these fantasies. It is called mechanics, as in engineering mechanics. Refutation of this field would involve the revocation of the equation of gravity, a violation of which has never been observed throughout history, on any gravitational body, or even amongst many gravitational bodies (think NASA).
Edited by anglagard, : plural in last phrase

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider - Francis Bacon
The more we understand particular things, the more we understand God - Spinoza

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