Re: Alternative Mechanisms of Evolution?

rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Robert J. Kolker wrote:
>
>>rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>>
>>>A couple of responses:
>>>
>>>(1) "How do you know it is billions. You weren't there."
>>
>>Potassium Argon differential. Next question?
>>
>>The underlying science for doing the age estimation is extremely well
>>established via experiment.
>>
>>And how do you know you weren't created Last Tuesday with all your memories?
>
>
> My posting history on Google Groups goes back further. Of course I
> guess that could be faked too, or I might not be the entity that wrote
> that stuff, I just think I am.
>
> I owe and hereby offer an apology: I didn't mean "you weren't there" to
> be taken seriously, other than a reminder that the age of the Earth (as
> with any science claim) still needs an appeal to evidence as well as
> assertion, but I should have done more than put it in quote marks to
> distinguish it from any serious point I wanted personally to make.
>
> Hey, I just thought of a long-term investor business plan for
> starships. We find a planet that has a fundamental Messianic religion,
> that expects its God to come and basically end the world and take
> everyone somewhere else in, say, the next fifty years, and we cut a
> legally binding deal where after fifty years their planet belongs to
> us. And then we come back at the end of that time and evict them, and
> build retirement homes. We clean up. We do it again, and at any time,
> we have several planets waiting... waiting for us, but they don't know
> that.
>
> Having said that, I think most of this was already an episode of Star
> Trek.
>

Yes it was, and the scammer turned out to be a female (or looked like
one some of the time).

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