Re: New thread from "Funny Creationist" post by AC

Pithecanthropus Erectus wrote:
> Here is the bit that I cut-and-pasted from his post:
>
> Can you provide some evidence that society is actually degenerating?
> > Degenerating from what precisely? An era when the work week was 80
> hours or
> > more? When infant mortality rates were enormous? Where the average
> > lifespan was less than fifty years? Where diseases could sweep through
> > populations, reducing them by a third? Where most people were indentured
> > laborers? Where most people were illiterate? Where kings, princes and
> > emperors ruled by divine decree? Where every manner of torture and
> > humiliation was put upon those whose religious or political beliefs were
> > considered unacceptable by the powers of the day? Where being a
> member of
> > the wrong ethnic group or skin color could mean slavery, harassment
> and even
> > murder? Where pious politicians could sit on tons of grain and let a
> > country literally starve almost to death? Where the peoples of two
> entire
> > continents were victims of genocide, disease, enslavement and
> > marginalization at the hands of great Christian powers?
> >
> > Ah yes, the good ol' days.

We have a Post of the Month on this very subject:

http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/postmonth/oct03.html#hon1

If we're going to compile a list like the one you suggest, a link would
probably be a good idea.

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