@farmerman,
Quote:Losing the evidence war is starting to pile up on Creationism because they are beginning to try to accept evolution , even evolution of higher orders , to explain their daffy myth of NOAH and an ARK
Quote:Up to the time of Rhampsinitus, Egypt was excellently governed and very prosperous; but his successor Cheops (to continue the account which the priests gave me) brought the country into all sorts of misery. He closed all the temples, then, not content with excluding his subjects from the practice of their religion, compelled them without exception to labour as slaves for his own advantage.
( A page or so devoted to a description of the years of terrible labour in his honour.)
Quote:But no crime was too great for Cheops: when he was short of money, he sent his daughter to a bawdy-house with instructions to charge a certain sum--
Quote:Cheops reigned for fifty years.....and was succeeded after his death by his brother Chephren. Chepren was no better than his predecessor; his rule was equally oppressive, and, like Cheops, he built a pyramid.
Quote:The Egyptians can hardly bring themselves to mention the names of Cheops and Chephren, so great is their hatred of them:
If the stones of the pyramids are subjected to the sort of scientific scrutiny accorded to fossils the traces of the whipped out blood of hundreds of thousands of slaves would show up. Maybe millions. Men, women and children. No doubt your scientific magazines often feature the wonders of the pyramids for you plonkers to admire and worship.
Quote:The next king of Egypt after Chephren was Mycerinus, the son of Cheops. Mycerinus, reversing his father's policy of which he did not approve, reopened the temples and allowed his subjects, who had been brought into abject slavery, to resume the practice of their religion and their normal work.
All quotes from Herodotus.
Perhaps it was thought that any myth, however daffy, was an improvement on that sort of shite which lasted nearly 100 years.
Perhaps the myth of Mandana was even deemed an improvement.
According to Herodotus, Mandana was born to Astyages, King of Media and son of Cyaxares the Great, and Princess Aryenis of Lydia, daughter of Alyattes II, the father of Croesus of Lydia. Christian Settipani, however, says she was his daughter by another mother.
Shortly after her birth, Herodotus reports that Astyages had a strange dream where his daughter urinated so much that Asia would flood.
Maybe the Noah myth is a lower-middle-class version of that.
What you are doing effemm is a bit like discussing Mahler with sole reference to what the strings of the instruments are made of.
You silly old fool. The anti-religious Communist party of the USSR certainly treated non party members in a similar fashion as Cheops and Chephren did.
Have you got grandiose plans for the unscientifics amongst us? The first step to such a policy is to label them all cretins and idiots and to Ignore anything they say.
I call upon true Americans to rise up and resist this evil force in their midst which is hell bent on taking away their freedoms and enslaving them.
