There's a ton of these idiotic refutations out there, many making their way into the myriad leaflets and propaganda scripts spouted by fundie Muslims, Christians and Jews running around the place; a sad reflection on science education and an indictment of religious indoctrination.
It's hardly worth pointing out the fallacies in this document, but just in case you're wondering what a simple falsification would be try drinking a couple of pints of water wait a few hours and see if that liquid disappears from the universe for ever, if by some remote chance it does then you shouldn't take this argument any more seriously rather you should urgently seek medical assistance.
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Steve, either I've misread your post or you haven't cited your sources. Not good scientific practice.
(Please do so somebody round here can have a go at this as well).
But this reasoning, applied correctly, does have the ability to prove that we're all seriously inbred. As given, say, 30 year generations, it would mean that in the year 1066, with no inter-breeding we'd all have a billion ancestors.
Which clearly isn't true. But which might explain this reasoning...
In fact... is this a real website or have you just taken it on faith?
AE, this was sent via email to someone I know; could be a joke of course but I have heard plenty of YouTube arguments like this along similar lines, they're not hard to find.
Actually if you look up "Atheists conference in Dublin" (a recent secular/atheist event) you'll come across videos of a bunch of Muslim apologists making very similar pseudo-scientific arguments just like this - which was kind of where I was trying to go with this post.
It could alternatively have been a leaflet, thinking about it. Some of the stranger religious groups still cling to the idea of pushing pieces of paper into our hands.
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