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#930556
Colonel Catastrophe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_painting
3/28/2009 9:32:07 PM
#930559
Vesper
People were wrong in the past so you should believe something from even further in the past!
3/28/2009 9:42:09 PM
#930560
speccy4i
That's it? Washing hands?
I'm more surprised that mankind hasn't invented the torch from Olympus that is the Flying Car yet.
Dave, if you think it's unbelievable how late in the game something as simple as 'washing hands prevents diseases' was developed, wait until you stop believing in your big invisible sky daddy and you'll really be amazed at how such simple common sense can escape people for thousands of years.
3/28/2009 9:44:41 PM
#930566
Porter
I would contend that knowledge grew exponentially, taking greater and greater leaps each time we advanced as a species.
And um, no one cares about the Word of God unless God is real, so that's another thing in and of itself besides your massive archaeology and antropology fails...
3/28/2009 9:55:23 PM
#930573
Blackvoice
Common sense: so rare it's a superpower.
3/28/2009 10:14:39 PM
#930579
Tolpuddle Martyr
Back when the doc didn't wash his hands church dogma ruled the day, 'nuff said!
3/28/2009 10:27:04 PM
#930580
Papabear
No history before 4000 BCE? You don't read much other than the Bible and other fiction do you? What's incredible is that someone could think this wad of warm turds is "undeniable proof" of anything other than his/her own idiocy.
3/28/2009 10:28:57 PM
#930587
Osiris
{i]Sanitary practices, such as washing hands, were laughed at by doctors, while thousands of patients continued to die.[/i]
That's because germ theory wasn't discovered yet and those doctors believed disease was caused by demons.
You know like the Bible says?
3/28/2009 10:34:47 PM
#930589
Dio Fa
If creation is true, why weren't people simply given the knowledge of how to combat germs or to prevent Scurvy? You know, the simple stuff.
Oh, and by the way, millions of people did not die of Scurvy.
3/28/2009 10:41:03 PM
#930590
freako104
"y 4,000 B.C.—YOU'D BE A FOOL NOT TO BELIEVE IT, BECAUSE THERE'S NO HISTORY PRIOR TO 4,000 B.C"
There are civilisations predating 4,000 BC.
3/28/2009 10:41:28 PM
#930591
WMDKitty
Neanderthals, Cro Magnons, and all the *rest* of our ancestral species would like a word with you...
3/28/2009 10:42:26 PM
#930595
Devonian
"It's hard to imagine that millions of people were dying from a simple lack of ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) just a couple hundred years ago"
Fun fact: iirc, our need for external sources of Vitamin C is due to a malfunction in our genome, one shared by chimps (and I believe gorillas as well)...
3/28/2009 10:48:08 PM
#930596
Washing your hands 'is undeniable proof against evolution' now?
I swear David J. Stewart grows more stupid every day.
3/28/2009 10:49:36 PM
#930599
well, in the last couple hundred years, scientific knowledge has skyrocketed, and along with it, life expectancy. millions of years ago, proto-men were probably lucky to live to 20. these "common sense" things, aren't really common sense. hindsight is 20/20, you know.
3/28/2009 10:56:43 PM
#930611
The truth is that evolutionists are hardhearted against the truth of God's Word. The Word of God declares that God created the world at approximately 4,000 B.C.—YOU'D BE A FOOL NOT TO BELIEVE IT, BECAUSE THERE'S NO HISTORY PRIOR TO 4,000 B.C
Here is a pottery jar.
This pottery jar is 4,500 years old.
David J. Stewart, you are a moron as always. Please shut up.
3/28/2009 11:21:54 PM
#930612
Oh shit, huge pic. Sorry. We need the edit button back.
3/28/2009 11:22:17 PM
#930614
maevemab
"Don't tell me that it took mankind BILLIONS of years to learn to wash his hands to prevent disease."
It didn't you fuckwit. Mankind hasn't been around that long. Get your fucking numbers right.
3/28/2009 11:25:21 PM
#930616
name
There was a giant population explosion once people started using basic hygiene.
3/28/2009 11:32:13 PM
#930617
Thinking Allowed
Sorry Dave, but you fail at health science. Learning about Vitamin C preventing scurvy and washing hands as an effective way for fighting disease has nothing to do with the ToE.
3/28/2009 11:34:50 PM
#930619
Nowonmai
YOU'D BE A FOOL NOT TO BELIEVE IT, BECAUSE THERE'S NO HISTORY PRIOR TO 4,000 B.C.
Egyptians, Chinese, Hindu and other cultures with provable ancient history would like a few words with you.
P.S. Capslocking asinine statements doesn't make them true.
3/28/2009 11:37:08 PM
#930641
The Amazing Liarbird
@ #930612
Hey, at least it didn't turn into Goatse the instant you cleared your cache.
3/29/2009 12:40:18 AM
#930646
Orion
Just from an Aussie point of view:
Aboriginal remains (Mungo man) are dated at 40 000 years.
Puts a big bloody hole in that hypothesis of yours.
Oh wait, I read the page, he says that scientists use "flawed" dating methods to prove the earth's age. While a book of fables is all the evidence of his 6000 year dating.
3/29/2009 12:54:03 AM
#930651
JonnyTruant
Knowledge builds upon itself. Is this so hard to understand? Besides, you should really get familiar with history. Every time that faith becomes the ruling power in society, science falls far behind. The Dark Ages are called that for a reason. A lot of good knowledge was lost until the European Renaissance, the rebirth of western science, art, etc.
And you might note that it wasn't until the age of reason that people began to really study the world empirically again; the first time since the ancient Greeks.
ANd I don't know why I'm wasting my time on this as you aren't ever going to see it. ...therapeutic win, I guess.
3/29/2009 1:05:56 AM
#930659
Mankind hasn't been around "BILLIONS of years"
3/29/2009 1:50:42 AM
#930661
Science taught us that sanitary practices were essential to proper medical care, not the Bible. In fact, many who washed during your beloved Religious Age were thought of as witches, and treated by your people accordingly.
BTW, it wasn't toe word of god that says the world began in 4004 BC: It was a man (Bishop Ussher). So there.
3/29/2009 2:04:00 AM
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