Re: New Flood data

Glenn Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Sat, 21 Feb 1998 13:12:46 -0600

At 10:45 AM 2/21/98 -0600, Ron Chitwood wrote:
>>>>83 x 52=4316 generations of fruitflies compared to 5 in humans. How long
>ago is 4316 generations in human terms? Oh, about 77,000 years. And if you
>will look at what anthropologists say, Homo sapiens has been on the earth
>for 120,000 years, some say 200,000. We have not had a lot of time to
>evolve fruitflies even by evolutionary standards. <<<
>
>Speculation, Glenn, speculation.
>
Hmmm...looked like mathematics to me but then I guess math means nothing.
Should I dare label your response as

Solipsism, Ron, solipsism.

>>>No progressive mutations have appeared in fruitflies to date.>>
>
>Fact, Glenn, Fact.
>
>>>So are you suggesting that there should be no interpretation? We all
>just
>> sit and stare at the fossils with no one saying a word? What do you
>want?
>> Someone needs to raise the obvious question "What do the fossils mean?"<<
>
>Interpretation can abound until the cows come home, as far as I'm
>concerned. The problem arises when its treated as fact and spoken as if
>its ex-cathedra from the Pope. If people want to believe a frog turned
>into a prince by the magic kiss of time, fine.

You should reference Gish when you use his material.

>By the way, thanks much for the math. I'll use it in the appropriate
>sermon

I thought you said it was speculation. Are your sermons full of speculations?

glenn

Adam, Apes, and Anthropology: Finding the Soul of Fossil Man

and

Foundation, Fall and Flood
http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm