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Talk:Debate:Listing the Earth's most pressing needs in urgent order of fixing (view source)
Revision as of 09:40, May 23, 2007
, 09:40, May 23, 2007→Noah's Ark: Fact or Fiction
: "''..how did they spread so far?''". Slowly. They didn't need to travel all the way from Ararat to Australia in one trip, or one generation. Just as rabbits have spread across much of Australia in the say, 50 years after they were introduced, animals would have spread around the world over, say, 200 years (to pick a couple of figure out of the air).
: "''..how did they spread so far?''". Slowly. They didn't need to travel all the way from Ararat to Australia in one trip, or one generation. Just as rabbits have spread across much of Australia in the say, 50 years after they were introduced, animals would have spread around the world over, say, 200 years (to pick a couple of figure out of the air).
: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 07:50, 22 May 2007 (EDT)
: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 07:50, 22 May 2007 (EDT)
::This will probably be the last thing I say in this discussion as I feel that there are some major differences of opinion and the like that will inhibit any progress from here.
::Gene mutations do lead to the destruction of genetic material and it does not create new material, it alters genetic material which alters the organism slightly. Most mutations result in very little or no change because they are useless and simply get bred out again however some are productive and that is when the species advances.
::Bacteria are still bacteria because they have not progressed to a multi-cellular organism. Also there are a ''lot'' of strains or species of bacteria because they change so rapidly.
::I explained that smaller and short lived creatures can change rather rapidly however larger animals such as humans and elephants and so on who breed quite slowly take a long time to evolve, look at the two million years it took cro-magnon men to evolve into homo sapiens, although of course you won't agree with that.
::Evolutionary timescale. That is one reason that this argument can no longer progress as I 'know' that the scientific dating methods are accurate while you 'know' that the world is only 6000 years old and therefore science must be wrong. I would ask how you can doubt the scientific methods of dating fossils and glacier movement and all those kind of things.
::Well the some of the megafauna that existed was predatorial, insofar as they had long, sharp canines and incisors, their eyes were facing forward from the front of their skull and all the other indications that show predatorial habits. Well I assume that to overcome this problem you would say that they were pre-flood and indeed the fossils were dated to be over 20,000 years old.
::[[User:Bolly Ottihw|Bolly Ottihw]] 19:39, 23 May 2007