Glenn wrote a lot of stuff about slaughtering bears, and ended with:
>Now, Dick, live by your choice. Animal sacrifice is much older than 7000
>years ago.
What was missing from Catal Huyuk was the evidence of animal sacrifice
seen in excavations of middle eastern civilizations that flourished after 7000
years ago. There were no alters, no grooved stones to run off the blood so
it could be collected instead of spilling on the ground and drawing
flies. It is
this kind of ritualistic, wholesale animal sacrifice to appease the gods or to
atone for sins that is missing prior to 7000 years ago.
I believe the Sumerians picked up on the practice from the Accadians who
learned it from the patriarchs themselves, maybe all the way back to Abel.
>As to the comments about humor, you use your sarcasm with YECs as a surgical
>knife. I see you using it towards others in a fashion that displays a lack
>of respect for them. Thus, when it is directed my way, I suspect the same
>attitude lies behind it. Don't give up your day job. Your future as a
>comedian is limited.
Ha! Don't I know that! I'm sorry Glenn, it's just hard not to be in good
humor
enjoying these blue skies, fluffy white clouds, red sunsets, the temperature
in the 80's, and the tidal basin replete with cherry blossoms, dogwoods in
bloom,
the azaleas resplendent in shades of pink, and violet, and red. It is just
such a
beautiful Spring here in Washington, and it puts me in such good spirits it
is hard
to take all this stuff seriously.
Not to worry, every other June the sun comes out in Scotland and everybody
goes
fishing that day.
Dick Fischer - The Origins Solution - www.orisol.com
"The answer we should have known about 150 years ago"
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