So mankind has been around 100,000 years and only now we have the internet. The arrogance of the secular scientist is astounding. Talk about picking and choosing. Everything magically popped out of nothing and is billions of years old, but mankind chose to evolve 100,000 years ago.
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What? Nothing chooses to evolve and what has the internet got to do with anything? If you think you're so clever, let's see you build an internet from scratch, with no tools, help, instructions or concept that such a thing might exist. I bet it takes you more than 100,000 years.
"The arrogance of the secular scientist is astounding."
The stupidity of fundies is even more astounding.
"Everything magically popped out of nothing "
Where did god come from?
The development of civilization has less to do with evolution than with writing, the domestication of grain & animals, metalworking, etc. You have confused biology with technology.
"So mankind has been around 100,000 years and only now we have the internet."
Yes, because of religious ignorance holding back humanity for thousands of years.
"Everything magically popped out of nothing and is billions of years old, but mankind chose to evolve 100,000 years ago."
Again, it's religion that makes appeals to magic and the supernatural, not science or rationality. Nothing "chooses" to evolve, you're making yourself look very, very silly.
First, we had to learn to talk, then we had to learn to write. We then had to experiment with ways to talk and write over long distances which meant we had to invent machine stuff that would help us to do that. Then, we invented the internet.
Are we clear about this, Joe? It's not easy simplifying the advance of communications into one paragraph using simple words.
Any questions?
Evolution doesn't work on any particular project or progress in any particular direction. Modern humans evolved then because that was when. . . they evolved, yeah, let me rephrase. The line of organisms leading to modern humans is quite long (several of the genus Homo, then some apes, then mammals in general, then mammal-like reptiles, then other reptiles, then amphibians, then fish, then cephalochordates. . .) so of course we evolved more recently. If the environment had been different around the time of our Homo spp. ancestors, modern humans might be quite different or might not have evolved at all.
The only one picking and choosing is you.
It's a great question. I was raised by wolves with no knowledge of the outside world. That didn't stop me from inventing: fire, the clovis point, animal hide clothing, spoken language, agriculture, earthenware and glass, woven fiber clothing, architecture, animal domestication, the wheel, concrete and steel, sailing ships, the trebuchet, movable type, philosophy, science, millennia of intellectual advancements in said fields, bukkake, the IRS, two internets and sustainable nuclear fusion... all before my 20th birthday. Why is the rest of humanity so slow?
"Joe King"? Oh come on.
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So mankind has been around 100,000 years and only now we have the internet.
The arrogance of the secular scientist is astounding.
Talk about picking and choosing.
Everything magically popped out of nothing and is billions of years old, but mankind chose to evolve 100,000 years ago.
"So mankind has been around 100,000 years and only now we have the internet"
Actually 100,000 years ago, Decepticon leader Megatron fell to Earth, and was frozen. But only in the early 20th Century was he found and the Hoover Dam built around him & the Allspark specifically to keep such secret:
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All major technological advances stem from research into Megatron.
There, you see? A credible explanation. It's certainly as credible as the Bible's Creation story.
For Satan's sake people, whether he's a poe or not the chose to evolve thing is clearly SARCASM.
It's like saying "look who decided to show up" when someone's late, even though they obviously weren't late on purpose.
Throughout history, when some tribe had progressed "too" much, another tribe came and killed them off, destroying all their newfangled ideas. It's often been "one step forward, two steps back" with major discoveries.
There is nothing magical in science, that's all in the Bible-believing side.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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