Latest Challenges to the Teaching of Evolution

We know there was no "Greece,"

Yes, we do, by your stupid, ignorant responses.

I'm not interested in what Gomer said; I addressed your post.

Africa didn't exist either.

Where did you get your education?

duh!

You mean to tell us Africa existed when human migration started?

where did you get your education?

we're talking about the land called Africa

You claimed countries didn't have a name.

Migration started in Africa, going east towards China, then going southward toward Australia, and finally into Europe. This all happened by 60,000 BC.

Thank you for the history lesson. It was unneccessary and inaccurate. People migrated by sea and the shore line. The migration into Europe happened simultaneously with migrations towards Australia via India and into China..

the so-called world in that period included a large swat of what is now Greece into most countries of the Middle East. It wasn't that "local."

This is also incorrect. In 8,000 BC there was no Greece. There were no countries of the Middle East.

From the strange mode of Cornelius's
death, my father had made a transition
to that of Socrates, and was giving my
uncle Toby an abstract of his pleading
before his judges ; ---- 'twas irresistable :
---- not the oration of Socrates, -- but
my father's temptation to it. ---- He had
wrote the * Life of Socrates himself the
year before he left off trade, which, I
fear, was the means of hastening him
out of it ; ---- so that no one was able
to set out with so full a sail, and in so
swelling a tide of heroic loftiness upon
the occasion, as my father was. Not a
period in Socrates's oration, which closed
with a shorter word than transmigration,
or annihilation, -- or a worse thought in
the middle of it than to be -- or not to be,
-- the entering upon a new and untried
state of things, -- or, upon a long, a
profound and peaceful sleep, without
dreams, without disturbance ; ---- That
we and our children were born to die, -- but
neither of us born to be slaves. ---- No --
there I mistake ; that was part of Elea-
zer's oration, as recorded by Josephus
(de Bell. Judaic.) ---- Eleazer owns he
had it from the philosophers of India ;
in all likelihood Alexander the Great, in
his irruption into India, after he had
over-run Persia, amongst the many things
he stole, -- stole that sentiment also ; by
which means it was carried, if not all
the way by himself, (for we all know he
died at Babylon) at least by some of his
maroders, into Greece, -- from Greece it
got to Rome, -- from Rome to France, --
and from France to England : ---- So
things come round. ----
By land carriage I can conceive no
other way. ----

By water the sentiment might easily
have come down the Ganges into the
Sinus Gangeticus, or Bay of Bengal, and
so into the Indian Sea ; and following
the course of trade, (the way from India
by the Cape of Good Hope being then un-
known) might be carried with other
drugs and spices up the Red Sea to Jod-
dah, the port of Mekka, or else to Tor
or Sues, towns at the bottom of the gulf ;
and from thence by karrawans to Coptos,
but three days journey distant, so down
the Nile directly to Alexandria, where
the SENTIMENT would be landed at the
very foot of the great stair-case of the
Alexandrian library, --- and from that
store-house it would be fetched. ------
Bless me ! what a trade was driven by
the learned in those days !

* This book my father would never consent to
publish ; 'tis in manuscript, with some other tracts
of his, in the family, all or most of which will be
printed in due time.

I said "in that period including a large swat of what is now Greece..."

And that the normal, well-adjusted and logically oriented person, (such as himself is implied) does not benefit from spirituality.

Laboratory experiments by Frank Brown showed that the metabolism of a vegetable depends on the season of the year and shows a daily minimum in oxygen use near moonrise and maximum near moonset.

For ten years he took measurements of the metabolic rate of the potato. The annual cycle showed the maximum metabolism of the potato from February through mid July and a minimum from mid July through November. The average daily metabolic rate for the potato was lowest from the new moon and first quarter. The metabolic rate increased at full moon to a maximum during the 3rd quarter of the moon.

During the 1970's he began experiments with dried bean seeds. The maximum rate of water uptake by bean seeds occur close to new and full moon and the moon's quarters. Uptake of water by a seed is important in seed germination because the first obvious change is the swelling of the seed as it absorbs water in the soil. Often the seed coats are ruptured by the swelling of the embryo in the seed coat. Frank Brown's results of potato show that plants have an optimum time in the year to grow and that planting at certain times of the lunar cycle may enhance the water uptake of a seed.