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The power, or not, of prayer : Comments
By Brian Baker, published 27/1/2011Drought and floods: did prayer completely fail? Or was it an overwhelming success?
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You and Sheikh Nuh both string a lot of words together but they do not make much sense.
I start with facts and have examined how the evidence builds up.
A basic fact is that humans live on a 4.5 billion year old planet which includes debris from an earlier supernova event so our solar system is young in a 13.7 billion year old universe.
Microscopic life probably existed well before hard shelled animals started to leave fossils but the marine fossil record is virtually complete and the land based fossil record is gradually becoming so. The land environment is not nearly as friendly to fossil formation as ocean sediments.
Nuh’s argument seems to claim that we are unique for our consciousness. We are not! Every farmer knows that his livestock are conscious, particularly his cattle. Make a noise like a calf in trouble and every cow within hearing will race to the scene in panic.
The human line shares a common ancestor with all primates the early versions of which survived as small mammals in the age of the dinosaurs which became extinct some 65 million years ago (apart from the birds).
That 1.1-1.2 metre tall australopithecines started walking upright 5-6 million years ago is now widely accepted in science. Walking upright freed the hands so that an opposable grip became feasible and the tools and weapons then possible made a meat eating diet available.
There is substantial evidence that we owe the progressive development of our forefathers’ larger brain to the fats that hunting fed us
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Evolution is not a fixed theory in much the same way as Newtonian physics had to be varied slightly to accommodate Einstein’s Relativity but the basic science of evolution is now far beyond well reasoned or even sensible argument.
There are plenty of Christian and Muslim creationist websites which show that the thinking of many people is archaic.