Don't you think it's absolutely insulting to man to say claim that he had been around for millions of years, and yet just invented the automobile 100 years ago? That may be a bad example, but do you see what I'm getting at? I mean...do you really think it took man millions of years for someone to get on a boat, sail to America, and find out the world is round?
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"Don't you think it's absolutely insulting to man to say claim that he had been around for millions of years, and yet just invented the automobile 100 years ago? do you really think it took man millions of years for someone to get on a boat, sail to America, and find out the world is round?
Yes.
The fact that you can't wrap your brain around certain ideas is YOUR problem. It does not constitute 'evidence'.
Well, for a start there was 800 years in Europe called the Dark Ages, when the church ruled, where science was held back.
You assume a linear progression of science, but no such thing exists. Scientific progress accelerates so drastically that if I plotted it on a curve, it would look like a rocket launch. This is because past lessons accelerate current progress, build on future achievements.
"You assume a linear progression of science, but no such thing exists. Scientific progress accelerates so drastically that if I plotted it on a curve, it would look like a rocket launch. This is because past lessons accelerate current progress, build on future achievements"
Let's see. First we had to adopt the Arabic numbering system, which introduced the zero. Then we stumbled along until Isaac Newton invented calculus. Since then, all hell has broken loose with respect to scientific development.
It's not so strange when you consider that we had morons like you insisting it was flat!!!!!
If scientific progress correlates with anything, it is population size.
And no-one had to sail to America to find out the world was round: its circumference had been calculated by various people to various levels of accuracy for at least 2000 years.
to build a car , or even a steam engine powered tractor, takes a lot of technology all together at one time.
Things may have been discovered many times but with only part of the technology the rest did not happen.
Early man , and even some people today are hunter/gatherers and that lifestyle does not provide the food resources to support a population who dont gather food. It required agriculture for that and a small group of people feeding the rest for towns and trades to happen.
Try building a boat, without plans and using only wood and natural fibres, and try sailing across the Atlantic.
But besides that, No I don't think that it took millions of years, it took a couple of hundred thousand years and they didn't use a boat, they walked. America had people on it long before the Europeans 'discovered' it.
> Don't you think it's absolutely insulting to man to say claim that he had been around for millions of years, and yet just invented the automobile 100 years ago?
> That may be a bad example,
> but do you see what I'm getting at?
> I mean...do you really think it took man millions of years for someone to get on a boat, sail to America, and find out the world is round?
If god created man in his image, and god is so fucking clever, why didn't Adam take Eve out for a drive in a Mercedes? Why did it take 5900 years, by your ridiculous timeline, for the car to be invented and why were the first cars so crappy?
Oh, and you are not seriously suggesting that Columbus was the first human being to step on American soil, are you?
Anybody who stood on a tall enough mountain saw that Earth is round especially if they were near a shoreline or desert. Not the "four corners of it". You can see the ocean from Mt. Wilson above Pasadena in California, and it's only 5,700 ft. high; I saw the roundness of Earth when I was eight. Also anybody who ever sailed a couple miles from shore knew it.
Get on a wind-powered boat. Sail across the Atlantic, I don't care in which direction, but you can't have any modern charts or gps to help you.
Not that easy, is it? Good luck.
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