[Talking about retroviral insertions]
Maybe I am wrong on this one, but I wonder if one simple explanation might be as follows.
Possibly before the flood there was no barrier in cross species breeding??!!!! This might explain why among aothe things, God had to let most creatures die? Since a certain point in time, species are limited, among other changes, to the possiblilty of exchanging genetics among themselves, rather than more widely?? This would possibly explain how these things got inserted!
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One would think the sheer number of bizarre, completely-without-evidence ad hoc assumptions Dad makes to try to make sense of a literal Genesis would raise big red flags that something ain't right here.
Then again, it's Dad, for whom reasoning has never been a strong point.
I love dad (seriously). He doesn't let his incorrect bits of information and ignorance get in the way of forming rather creative connections and theories, and he seems so enthusiastic.
Julian: Hey, the Egyptians thought you thought with your heart too, and they built the pyramids, performed surgeries, and lasted as a civilization for several millenia. ;) Maybe the idea that you think with your heart is an Ancient Near East thing. Along with, say, flood stories.
Okay, look. I've come up with this handy diagram concerning any of dad's arguments. Ever.
1) Insert a "I may be wrong disclaimer".
2) Make wild assertion concerning a basic piece of knowledge (gravity, light, breeding etc.).
3) Assert that this assertion is absolute truth for the remainder of the thread. This is regardless of any previous assertions made ever.
4) Choose one of the following attitudes to use against anyone who argues against.
a) Pity
b) Scorn
c) Guru-Disciple
5) Add many, many exclamation points at the end of final sentence. Sprinkle commas at random points in each sentence also.
6) (late thread only) Cite obscure Bible quote of some sort.
7) Eventually, let thread die quietly. Choose other basic truth of existence and repeat.
Since dad appears to deny their existence, I would be quite amused if he were to be mauled by ligers.
I mean, I don't wish harm to him, really, but you gotta admit, it would be funny. Like in the Odyssey, where Polyphemus cries out that Noman is hurting him.
Possibly, before the flood, pigs could fly.
"...aothe..." Huh?
"God had to let most creatures die?" Had to? The omniscient, omnipotent God let species interbreed and then had to "let most creatures die?"
Is God actually *letting* them die if they die in a flood God created for the purpose of killing them?
Caphi is right; "dad" is a regular "fundie science expert" contributor quoted here, and his stuff tends to follow that very pattern -- without being hindered by the slightest taint of actual knowledge or understanding of the technical subject at hand. He just makes it up and runs with it.
~David D.G.
So that's what happened to all those
centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, etc.
That was really bothering me.
Thanks
Let's make up bullshit that's unproveable and makes no sense!
Maybe the sky was piss yellow before the flood!
Maybe alchemy worked before the flood!
Maybe oranges tasted like lemons before the flood!
Some species can still cross-breed and be fertile. Ducks of the genus Anas like the Mallard can breed with other relatives and have fertile offspring. Same with the unrelated Ruddy Duck, a common stiff-tailed duck in North America, which is causing problems in Europe because it was introduced there and is messing with the population of one of its endangered relatives there.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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