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Flat-Earthers aren't an homogenous group.
Some are so due to being Creationists: believing that the biblical account - with its geocentrist cosmology - is literally true.
Others have a considerable distrust of the government, and take anything as evidence that the government is...
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Although this is an old thread, it's an important topic due to the difficulty of addressing both Flat Earthers and Geo-centrists, since they refuse to accept evidence from modern technology - photos/videos from space, lasers bounced off a mirror on the Moon (no Moon landings!), etc...
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You assume a deity exists - we don't. It's for you to provide evidence that it does.
You;re attempting to avoid doing so by saying that it's "not particularly useful" to question the deity's existence by asking for evidence.
Most religions have texts, not just the monotheistic...
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Happy New Year to everyone!
As has been pointed out by others, it's not for atheists to prove a negative - that a deity doesn't exist - but for believers to prove that one does.
There are two types of deities - theistic (interactive) and deistic (non-interactive)
Religions all...
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The creationists can always claim that "mitochondrial Eve" is the same as the biblical one - even though the time-frame (millions versus thousands of years) don't match.
He did correlate the 4 Homo species with the four gene pools - but then said that he wasn't claim that that was...
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Very rarely [1] - in humans. mtDNA is virtually always passed down through the maternal line, in the same way that the Y-chromosomal DNA is passed down through the paternal line.
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James
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The three sons have the same mtDNA from their mother - the three wives are each separate mtDNAs, hence four all told.
Kindest regards,
James
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Given our brains are pattern-recognition systems, it's not surprising that we can fall down the proverbial rabbit hole - we see patterns everywhere, real or imagined (hence why we see Jesus in toast, etc).
We also see correlations - patterns - in data and events, which can result in...