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Re: Evolution vs Scientific Creationism
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Fri, 12 Jul 2002 07:40:41 GMT
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> sure where you got it from). It has to do with the fallacious logic
> that the creation of this linear scale of human "development" engenders,
> and the poor policies/decisions/analyses that come out of that logic.
> Those do the *real* damage, in terms of livelihoods, families, and
> sometimes lives themselves.
There are actual groups of people for lack of a better term, we'll call a
tribe, who having no technology beyond stone tool making and limited
agriculture fall into a social development known as the Stone Age. These
cultures have been having problems assimilating with more technologically
advanced cultures for centuries. Did someone back in Spain say "let's not
call the Mayans human sacrificing canabals but empoverished enlightened
beings who's pyramids rival the Egyptians?' no, they melted their gold and
burnt their libraries. If we can't call the Yanomama people modern Stone Age
then what? Yes their culture is threatened, and? Is the term dismissive? It
hadn't occured to me before that it might be and I have infinite respect for
the stone age culture. So please don't accuse me of demeaning them, your the
one who read into my labelling and mabye take a closer look at your own
convictions. The Aztec and Mayans and unnamed cultures in Peru made their
pyramids and cities with stone tools. They are discovering pyramids there
that are 1 1/2 times the size of the pyramid of Giza. They predicted an
eclipse on Dec. 16, 2012 ( noon? ) that according to them will be the end of
the universe and the last eclipse in Mexico City they were off by a few
minutes. This is a culture deemed as bloodthirsty savages and that was
crime. It happens. Don't put your consceince on me because I'm calling a
culture what it is.
Joseph living in the Plastic Age
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| (...) The big problem with it has little to do with the "emotional distress" it supposedly places on people (I said nothing about this, so I'm not sure where you got it from). It has to do with the fallacious logic that the creation of this linear (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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