"Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in news:buulvm$qs7$0@pita.alt.net:
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> "Severian" <severian@chlamydia-is-not-a-flower.com> wrote in message
> news:cpl5105n8agametc5ddaic2gnnpdntn40r@4ax.com...
>> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:27:45 +0000 (UTC), "Uncle Davey"
>> <noway@jose.com> wrote:
>> <snip>
>> >The Bible does not simply claim that. Read and analyse the whole
>> >passage. They did not cover the earth as had been commanded them.
>> >God said to the Flood remnant 'Prue u revue' which is 'Go 4th and *
>> >' They did not prue
> and
>> >they did not revue. They sought to urbanise and we would have had
> twentieth
>> >century technology in no time had they managed it. They were running
> before
>> >they could walk, neither were they obedient to God and giving Him
>> >the
> glory.
>> >
>> >> And that this because the Tower would have been unacceptably tall?
>> >
>> >'reach the sky' is more than just a physical reaching.
>>
>> So it's not a literal meaning. Interesting dodge.
>
> I said it was more than a physical meaning.
>
> I didn't say the literal meaning was not part of the meaning, it
> usually is.
>
>>
>> >> How tall would the Tower of Babel have been if it had been
>> >> completed? (Note: I recommend you use the archaeological record to
>> >> justify your answer.)
>> >
>> >This is a mere irrelevance. Kindly posit a common ancestor of Indo
> European
>> >and Finno-Ugric.
>>
>> That's even more irrelevant. The evolution of language is unrelated,
>> except by analogy, to the theory of evolution.
>>
>
> Interesting dodge and how convenient.
...that reality doesn't conform to your strawman ideas. Yes, isn't it?
Saves everyone else the trouble of defending your argument.
> In other words you agee that language could not have evolved.
...by means of Biological Evolution. The capacity for languages is
another thing entirely.
> So how exactly do we get from monkeys to man, run that by me again?
Certainly not by new languages arising.
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