Re: some help please (druid)

On Feb 8, 1:43 pm, "Eric P." <eric...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>  "Will in New Haven" <bill.re...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Feb 8, 11:52 am, "Eric P." <eric...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > Will in New Haven wrote:
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> > > > > How can one be an atheist in a fantasy setting when gods are
doing
> > > > > miracles everywhere one looks?
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> > > >      Sing it, brother.
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> > > >      How can one think the world is 4000 years old in a world
where the
> > > > mountains plainly show the effects of thrust folding thousands of
times
> > > > that. Where even our own most ancient constructions and the oldest
trees
> > > > are older than that? Real people believe all sorts of crazy ****.
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> > > 4000 years, indeed *L* I'm hoping folks are more enlightened than
that,
> > > in this day and age...'specially since there's indisputable proof
that
> > > human civilizations have been around for ~40,000 years.
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> > > - E
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> > Do you have an exra zero in that last figure or are you being
> > conservative? Since you can't possibly mean forty thousand years, I
> > would guess you are being conservative. Sumer, etc can be traced back
> > six thousand years or so.
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> > Will in New Haven
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> Civilization is estimated (last I heard/read) at forty thousand years,
> give or take. Homo sapiens sapiens is estimated at four hundred thousand
> years, give or take. That's a bit longer than four thousand years ;)
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Depending on your definition of civilizatrion, of course, forty
thousand years is really unlikely. Sumer, etc in Babylonia, all date
to between six and seven thousand years ago. Nothing much earlier.
Sapiens is much older, of course, but our ancestors seemed to stay
hunter-gatherers for a long time.

Will in New Haven