Re: 1.5 Million-year-old Footprints Discovered in Kenya

On Jun 21, 1:42 pm, Tashi <dewachen1...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jun 21, 11:03 am, John LaCroix <John.L.LaCr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On Jun 18, 12:45 pm, Tashi <michaeltham...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

  80% of Americans don't believe the theory of evolution.  Not that
that means anything, but the point being, science is ramming a
hypothesis down everyones throat.  Darwin himself said that fossil
records are incomplete, and the lack of transitional species was
troubling.  Even more so from ape to human.

Is this thread still going?

There are still plenty of folks who don't believe the earth is round
and that it revolves
around the sun, either. Doesn't mean they are correct.

Oh, and just because we have writings refering to giants, sea monsters
etc. doesn't mean they actually
existed. People seem to take comfort in creating stories to explain
the unexplainable, but science provides many
explanations for things previously unexplained. You can choose to
accept this or not, but it wasn't the ancient cultures
you cite that created the very sophisticated piece of technology you
are reading from at this moment.

I don't have a problem with the idea that we share a common ancestor
with apes. Aside from the way we
walk and our relative lack of hair we have much more in common that we
like to believe. More specifically, most of
our DNA, and the ease at which we inflict suffering upon each other
with little provocation (I mean chimps, my apologies to gorillas who
are
very peaceful as I understand).

John L.

  John I have a real problem with those that take ancient writings
such as the Vedas, without any knowledge or investigation of them, and
reduce it all down to superstition.  This is the default setting of
modern man's hubris and arrogance.  Sorry!

  If you spend any time reading through the vast amount of ancient
Vedic writing you will quickly understand just how accurate they are.
John I've learned in life to distinguish between modern hubristic
superstition, and real study and scholarly learning.

However, in your defense I can say that people have different
interests in life, and if you are not drawn or interested in Vedic
literature then you won't investigate it.  That's fair enough, there
are many things I'm ignorant of, not because I lack the ability to
learn it but I simply lack the interest in it. Using the same old
cliches about the ancients and modern man gets tiring especially when
it comes from the hubris of modern man.

For what it's worth, I don't think modern man is any smarter or more
inspired than ancient man or the other way around. And your
correct, I'm really not that interested but I will say I work with
many H1-B's and we discuss Indian politics and Hinduism quite a bit.
.

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