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Old 03-10-2006, 10:32 AM   #42 (permalink)
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1,300 researchers, Doctors and leaders in their fields, from 45 countries, think you are wrong. Geology, Biology, our whole understanding of science, is built on what you are now trying to call theory. Going back to such a basic argument as evolution is theory is not looking at any of the above info objectively. Why does the last sentence sound familiar? I notice a trend here to change the subject...... Sedimentary science is that advanced; on the other hand, if you think we did not evolve, just say so.
Wrong-o!

I am NOT going back to some argument about evolution.

What I AM saying is that much of what we call "science" - in regards to what we believe happened millions of years ago - is "speculation".
OK... I know this isn't a good way to respond in a debate but...

You're wrong, and you have no effing idea what you are talking about. What the Earth was like 2 million years ago isn't a theory, it's an entirely provable fact. Theories aren't even speculation anyway. They are used to unite evidence.
No no, you CANNOT prove what the earth was like 2 million years ago. It's nothing more than an educated guess.
Evidence:
Growth rings in petrified trees.
Differences in sediment layers.
Locations of fossils.
Rate of wear in places like waterfalls and canyons.
Types of fossils.
Plenty more.

All of these things indicate what the world was like 2 million years ago.

For example, the place I live now was under the ocean 2 million years ago.

It's just a matter of collecting and piecing together the evidence.
That is all based on the ASSUMPTION that everything was atmospherically the same 2 million years ago - which, almost certainly, it was NOT.

That is all based on the ASSUMPTION that erosion and decomposition took place at the same rate, 2 million years ago, that it does today.


But those of you who are claiming that we're destroying the environment are claiming that "certain" aspects of the environment are NOT changing. So which is it?