Re: Rational thought process vs creationist 'thought' processes

On May 7, 11:05=A0am, swa...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On May 5, 3:19=A0pm, misanthropic_curmudgeon =A0wrote:
> > [snip
>
Error in my original posting corrected below.

> As I have looked into this matter further I found some Internet
> articles on Continental Drift =A0as follows:-
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_drift
> which gives some information of the historical development of the
> idea.
>
> Plate Tectonics =A0 Questions and Answers
> http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/3037/

With apologies I incorrectly entered the website.

> The drift was Americas from Africa, Australia and Antarctica from Asia
> that has nothing to do with the cir***ference of the world - one of
> the statistics you gave me to use for the first calculation.
>
> The turbulance in the world brought about by the flood in the time of
> Noah has relevance for the question you have posed. But you do not
> accept that there was a great worldwide flood about 4500 years ago.
>
> From another website it was stated that the estimate for the pre-flood
> population of the world =A0was 1 billion which would have been a
> doubling rate about every 62 years - quite possible.
> At the present time 1 billion people was added to the world in eleven
> years, but the statistics given to High School students in a 1980's
> text was that it took the world 2 - 3 million years to reach 1 billion
> in 1800. That doesn't add up in my estimation. The doubling rate from
> 1960 - 1998 was 38 years.
> In the =A0Population doubling mechanism 200 to 400 matches in ratio 2
> million to 4 million, statistics being given as averages.
>
> Some ideas to think about.
>
> But sorry, I cannot work out the rate of speed of the separation of
> the continents.
>
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Gladys Swager