If man has been on the Earth for over a million years or whatever Evolution says...IF, as evolutionists claim, the earth is billions of years old, and mankind has evolved from a lower and simpler form of life, then why has mankind gone from writing upon stones to laser printers in just the past 3,500 years? When God gave Moses the Ten Commandments, they were written upon stone. It is abundantly clear that the Egyptians carved messages into stone (hieroglyphics). So why is it that mankind has only discovered better inventions in the past few thousand years? If mankind had evolved, as evolutionists claim, then why didn't man discover ink a million years ago? Think about it. This is an astonishing thought--There were NO planes, cars, computers, refrigerators, electricity, lights, gas, powered-equipment, telephones, recording devices, CD players, MP3 players, electric razors, televisions, record players, movie cameras, or a million other modern technological inventions--just a mere 170 years ago. Civilization has advanced from utter primitiveness to incredible mind-boggling achievements in just a little over 100 years. So why didn't mankind discover any of this stuff 100,000,000 years ago, or 100,000 years ago for that matter?
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When God gave Moses the Ten Commandments, why weren't they engraved on platinum or some similarly indestructible substance if they were so important? Isn't it an odd coincidence that God never seems to have more advanced technology than the people who wrote the Bible?So why didn't mankind discover any of this stuff 100,000,000 years ago, or 100,000 years ago for that matter?
Why not 5,000 years ago then? Even fundies admit the earth is at least that old.
Because humans had to develop technologies that allowed them to devote time and energy to thinks other than getting enough food to survive on before they could work on other stuff.
Face it, god gave us intelligence, and after millenia of farting around, we got around to using it.
Well, it's hard to invent those kind of things without an extensive knowledge of science and mathematics and I imagine that it is hard to keep your mind on developing an understanding of thermodynamics when you are starving to death and being chased by something that thinks you are delicious.
Sorry, but we were still evolving biologically at that point, so that we could live long enough to invent better things. If Newton (84) or Einstein (76) had only lived to be 25 - 30 yrs old, like our ancient ancestors typically did, well...you get the picture. Longer lifespans have enabled a lot of our recent progress.
This argument is no more valid than one that asks why, if the earth is only 6,000 y/o, why has civilization advanced from utter primitiveness to incredible mind-boggling achievements in just a little over 100 years.
"So why didn't mankind discover any of this stuff 100,000,000 years ago, or 100,000 years ago for that matter?"
Cool. It's fun to finally learn about the industrial revolution, isn't it?
If it was true that humans have been around longer than 5 thousand years, it must mean there was something preventing people from thinking scientifically. Something that would replace the truth with made up stories. Even with these stories, you couldn't get everyone to believe in them without force. Perhaps crusades or inquisitions? This is purely speculation, mind you. No one in their right mind would make up stories and then force people to believe in them for millennia.
Man, did you forget that, in between, they wrote in clay and in papirus and, for the students particularly, even in a kind of soft board made with hay?. Did you know that, in between, people have invented paper, from rests of rags to celulose(S. XVIII), that the Greeks used skins of animals and that typing in a maschine or a comp is as available as the twenties and fifties?. And that goes with writting, for the general scope of progression. Do you know that the prototype for the plane was invented in the last quarter of the nineteenth century?, that technicques to develop electricity were invented in the eighteenth century?, do you know that Romans knew how to build pipes, water-supplies and other modern services we enjoy today?, do you know that the Celts invented the central heater?. Now, tell me, are you a troll?, or are you really trying to convince infidels this way?
"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants."
It's pretty simple: before the advent of science, things were found purely through random trial and error. With the advent of science and mathematics, one can systematize a little the process of trial and error. Then, the more you discover, the more you can discover. It grows exponentially, provided there are no setbacks like the Dark Ages.
What, exactly, is he trying to argue here? Papabear put it nicely.
Fundie or troll, who can tell these days?
Wow, so close and yet so far. This guy doesn't have the slightest clue what the ToE actually says, does he? Does he really think that Neanderthal Man should have discovered the laser printer...? Damn lazy Neanderthals!
From Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (Civ clone):
" Civilization has advanced from utter primitiveness to incredible mind-boggling achievements in just a little over 100 years. So why didn't mankind discover any of this stuff 100,000,000 years ago, or 100,000 years ago for that matter?"
"So why didn't mankind discover any of this stuff 100,000,000 years ago, or 100,000 years ago for that matter?"
So why didn't mankind discover any of this stuff 100,000,000 years ago, or 100,000 years ago for that matter?"
100,000,000 years ago, man didn't exist and his ancestors were just trying to stay out of the way of all the dinosaurs stomping around.
There were deez aliens, see? And dey came to visit us about 10000 years ago, see? And as a hostess gift, dey gave us da smartz.
/Civilization has advanced from utter primitiveness to incredible mind-boggling achievements in just a little over 100 years. So why didn't mankind discover any of this stuff 100,000,000 years ago, or 100,000 years ago for that matter?/
Because there was a little thing 500 years ago called the Renaissance (spelling?), in which people actually started finding things out for themselves instead of blindly following what other people told them to do.
This is an astonishing thought...
Well, there's something astonishing here, but thought has very little to do with it.
Yeah, dammit! Why can't babies walk as soon as they're born? Why can't chicks fly as soon as they're hatched? Why can't I perform complex invasive brain surgery the minute I set foot in a medical college?
BECAUSE SHIT TAKES TIME, FUCKNUGGET!!!
Ancient man did have ink, but paper was a bitch to make, so it was used on cave walls and as warpaint. The Egyptians carved on stone because it lasted forever; they had paper, too, and nearly universal literacy.
So, to reiterate, fuck you.
I'm surprised kent hovind doesn't say "technological evolution" is stupid and blame it on Darwin too. He seems to think all the other kinds of evolution (cosmic, chemical, stellar, organic, micro, macro) are stupid, and all of those are of course Darwin's fault.
Yeah, why weren't people shopping using their iPhones at amazon.com 5,000 years ago? Why didn't the Donner party just take I-80 back to civilization? Why didn't Columbus take the United flight across the Atlantic? Why, I say?
Stimpy, you are an eeeeeediot!
I think this is appropriate:http://youtu.be/rGKRtfChY58
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