[After referencing articles about astronauts becoming slightly taller in low gravity.]
Therefore, it should be of no conflict with science to claim that Adam's size, or man's initial size on earth in general, was in the neighborhood of 90 feet tall, or that the first human-race ever walked on earth was around 90 feet tall, give or take 10 to 20 feet between the creatures' differences in heights as we today have people as tall as 7 feet and as short as 2 feet tall. The reason for this is simply because the planet earth was much smaller than what it is now.
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Astronauts grow taller in space = the earth used to be smaller = people were 90 feet tall. Is that it?
Don't be surprised if I don't take you seriously, Abu...
Gravity is affected by mass, not necessarily size. The earth has not gained significant mass in the past 6,000 years. Even if it were smaller, the mass would still be relatively equivalent to what it is now. That would mean that the force of gravity would be pretty much the same as it is now when you supposed Adam walked the earth.
Why is it necessary to come up with stuff like this
Okay, so we believe an ancient book of stories as truth. Because of inconsistancies with reality and these stories, we must come up with theories that would prove these stories correct. Theories that have no scientific evidence to back them up whatsoever.
Oh, and by the way, our religion is TRUTH!
What is this, I don't even...
This is honestly a first. I've never heard a creationist say that the planet's litterally grown in size.
What??? I don't see how astronauts gaining a fraction of an inch in height (due to their spines not being compressed from gravity) proves that Adam was 90 feet tall. The bible doesn't even state that Adam was 90 feet tall. If it did, it would be just another ridiculous passage we atheists could ridicule.
And where are all the fossils of these 90-ft-tall people?
Fundie logic... not making sense for thousands of years.
This illustrates a major drawback of Islam, they have to rely on a science text that is inferior to the Christian science text. It clearly states in the Bible that in those days pi equaled exactly three. Now if pi=3, then the first people, Adam included, were obviously 110 feet high on average. Somehow, abulhafidz402 has either calculated wrongly or referred to the Islamic texts, which of course would have put him on the wrong track.
In those days, due to the Earth's central position in the universe, a five minute stroll would suffice to comfortably wend ones way from Jordan to Egypt, that is if one was also over 100 feet tall. Of course, on a typical journey like that, one might well have been accompanied by ones tyrannosaur. It was a typical excuse in those days. "Where do you think your going? I hope your not going down that damn pub again!" "No dear. I'm just taking the dinosaur for a walk."
Never mind Islam being truth, I didn't realize Islamic Creationism was profound stupidity.
LOL
Ain't that some shit.
90 foot?
NINETY FOOT??
Do you even KNOW how tall that is?
Humans were as tall as Cthulhu, apparently.
Dunno about you, but I now picture Godzilla vs Jeff from down the street.
I'm not sure what all the figures would be, but a 90-foot-tall human would require a gravity less than that of the moon. Even if the Earth was actually the same size, but was somehow less dense, the weaker gravity would be unable to hold anywhere near as much atmosphere (if any) as even regular-sized humans would need to survive, let alone ones with their heads probably up in the stratosphere, maybe even the mesosphere...
Arctic Knight, the only ways the force of gravity at the surface will vary is by change in overall mass of the planet, or by expansion/contraction. For instance, keeping the same mass but making it smaller will lead to a higher surface gravity - which will actually result in SMALLER creatures (this works for mountains too, check general planetology).
Speaking of heavier gravity making creatures smaller - look at the source for that statement further down. It's a ROLEPLAYING SUPPLEMENT. For a fantasy space game. Hardly a 'scientific' source! [Although the author is a) fairly good at his science and b) co-wrote 3rd Ed D&D so can't be that bad ;) ]
So, because the Earth was allegedly smaller, its gravity was sufficiently low enough to produce gigantic humans????
Let me guess, you got an A +++ in high school Physics AND majored in Biology in college, didn't you?
I once heard from someone that when you lie down, you're actually about 2" taller than you are standing up. If that's true, I'll be abuha-haha would try to use that to prove giants once left footprints where Mount Kilimanjaro is.
The reason for this is simply because the planet earth was much smaller than what it is now.
Ahh, the ol' "ad hoc hypothesis" - just pull some unsupported explanation out of thin air.
Six year old: "I didn't break the lamp. Aliens shot it though the window with their death ray". Adult moron's version: "Adam wasn't 6 feet tall. The Earth's gravity was less".
I was the one who submitted this. The rest of the blog entry is equally stupid, so I recommend that all of you take a moment to read it. It's quite honestly one of the stupidest things I've ever seen on the internet.
I wish the other posts were in English, 'cause I'm sure he's said plenty of other dumb shit.
Obvious Idiocy aside. If (essentially) no gravity makes you slightly taller, why would less gravity than normal, but more than its own absence, make you super fucking tall?
So where did the earth gain all that extra mass from?
Arctic Knight:
If the Earth has the same mass but lower radius, the gravity on surface is _sronger_, since you are closer to its center (that is, the term "r" gets smaller in "F=G*m1*m2/(r*r)".
Um, Abu, 90 feet tall? The partial pressure of O2 in the atmosphere would have to be at least 20 times what it is now to keep such a giant breathing. So we're supposed to believe in a tiny, tiny Earth with a massively thick atmosphere just to support your creative myth? Sorry, no sale.
Look, any one who knows my posts knows i hate atheists and anything they say with a passion, but even this is clearly retarded and stupid. Anyone who takes the creation story LITERALLY is a moron. Its a figurative morality tail. This is just stupid nosnsese being pulled out of their asses
Have you bothered to calculate how much smaller the planet would be for your theory to be right?, and how could Adam survive in such conditions, were he as you describe?. It's maths, baby.
BUH
AARGHH!!!
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*Sigh*
SLIGHTLY taller. Like, less than an inch. Like, because gravity isn't forcing you down, you don't have your spinal discs compressed, giving you a slight boost in height. Like, NOT spontaneously growing a foot taller.
You know what? Give us proof that these 90 foot tall people even EXISTED, and I'll consider giving this more thought.
I know very little about these things, but isn't it possible that the Earth was biggger then, that gravity, or centrifugal force, pull inwards, making Earth slowly smaller, but with the same mass?
Anyway, the difference can't be large enough to allow humans to be 88 feet taller then than today. The effect on lenght in space is barely large enough to spot without a tape-measure, right? Adam can hardly have been more than an inch or two taller, IF what Numbskull here believe was true. And, if we look at our humanoid ancestors, it rather looks like we're getting taller and taller, not the other way around.
I know very little about these things, but isn't it possible that the Earth was biggger then, that gravity, or centrifugal force, pull inwards, making Earth slowly smaller, but with the same mass?
@#1536137: no. It isn't.
(1) There is no evidence that the gravitational constant has changed over the history of the universe.
(2) Centrifugal force does not work that way.
The planet has been about the same size and mass it currently is since it formed.
The Dutch people are, on average, the tallest in the world. Today.
...and methinks a-buh buh derp-a titz(IQ)4.02 here has been watching "Macross Frontier" too many times, it's not healthy. Hey, a-buh buh derp-a, I like that anime series too, but let me tell you it's not a documentary, no matter how much you wish the Zentraedi - such as the leader of Pixy Squadron (and shit-hot pilot of a Queadluun-Rau mecha!) Klein Klan in her 60 foot-high macronised form* - existed:
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*- And that's average height for Zentraedi, who can be as much as 80 feet tall.
Except the cube-square law says that if a man is that big while maintaining the same proportions, he would need to spend his entire life laying down as he died horribly from lack of blood pressure, or, more likely, from his lungs not being able to fill at all. His legs holding him up would be so ludicrously undo-able that it makes the rest of the Bible look only mostly retarded.
Usually, fundie statements spend a long time collecting layers of bullshit to hide their impossibility, but this is blatant idiocy on a whole new level.
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