@Sean Pitman M.D.: Thanks for the explanation. However, even *if* …

Comment on La Sierra “outraged” over Educate Truth article by Mark Houston.

@Sean Pitman M.D.: Thanks for the explanation. However, even *if* Mammoths had multiplied like E. coli on a petri dish for half a millenium (after hyper-evolving from the ancestor of all african and indian elephants, mastodonts and many others (?)) – do you really think there was a huge catastrophe happening up north while there were already pyramids being built in ancient Egypt? Do you further believe that the ice age was happening just 4000 years ago, most probably a millenium after
the famous Oetzi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi_the_Iceman) was killed high up a nowadays Italian mountain?
Last but not least: Why should the catastrophic cooling have happened 500a *after* the flood?

…puzzled,
Mark

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La Sierra “outraged” over Educate Truth article
@Sean Pitman: My last questions seemed too far off topic (and too many at once), so I sent them in a private email. Nonetheless I again want express my gratitude for the many detailed answers!
Just one additional note: Relativity has at most one “logical problem”, which is not really a problem but simply something contradicting our everyday experience:
Velocities don’t exactly add up and the sum of two velocities can never exceed the speed of light in vacuum. This has been experimentally verified countless times. The rest is pure logic, even the famous twin-paradox.

@Bravus: I’m 6 feet tall. My double-sized twin
would be 12 feet tall (no surprise there), 4 times stronger, because strength scales with length scale squared, since it essentially depends on the muscles’ cross sectional area, *but* 8(!) times heavier (since body mass scales with length scale cubed). So though vastly stronger than me, my big twin brother would be a weakling measured by his ratio of strength to body mass. He would also need 8 times more food and break his bones much more easily.
The only way out would be a totally different body plan or some trick like Kevlar bones.
An elephant sized mouse would most probably be crushed by it’s own weight. By the same token, “super strong” insects are no wonder of nature. Their enormous strength (compared to their body mass) is just in accordance with the twin story above. Nothing more.
So, until proven wrong by a well documented 12 foot human skeleton (not photoshopped “photographs” from the internet) I won’t believe in the existence of (viable and healthy) human beings twice my size.
I was just curious because time and again I heard stories of ancient/antediluvian giants (which strongly interested me long before I grasped scaling-laws).

Thanks for all the answers!
Mark


La Sierra “outraged” over Educate Truth article
@Sean Pitman M.D.: Sean, thanks, I respect your efforts to answer my questions (in stark contrast to other YEC supporters who react to plain questions with ad hominem attacks)! Thanks also for admitting that (at least for once), you don’t know, too :-).

Mark


La Sierra “outraged” over Educate Truth article

Sean Pitman M.D.: Yes. Birds can rapidly loose their ability to fly as cavefish can rapidly loose their ability to grow eyes – with just one point mutation in fact. Loosing something is much easier than evolving something brand new that never was present within the gene pool of ancestral options.

…I’m really grateful for your readiness to give answers! Though this Q&A session is threatening to grow out of bounds there’s (at least) one more thing: It’s not about penguins losing the ability to fly. It is rather about gaining the ability to swim (very) well (that could have been present before the flood), mechanisms to cope with extreme cold as an individual (some tricks with the blood circuit) and as a group (presumably hard-wired behavioral patterns allowing penguins not to freeze to death by warming each other).

best,
Mark


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A sudden extreme cold snap is not necessarily related with a cold period causing glaciers to extend down south to Illinois. If all frozen mammoths really died quite exactly at the same time, they all should give the same age when dated with whatever method available. Even if the absolute age was off, the same “radiometric” age for all the mammoths we’re talking about would support your theory.

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