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Hi Cog! I'm not sure if we are on the same wavelength here. I have always taken the idea of the Nile flowing South as meaning, not that it reversed its direction of flow, but that the Egyptian's perception of North/South changed. If you are looking downstream and the sun rises on your right, in the ...

I agree Min that sounds reasonable, but the Moraines in my area are no where near as high, nor can I find evidence, that they were ever as high as the ice behind them. If that's correct the lake that formed in the States would have had to have been lower in the middle than at the edge, ice fields ca...

I wish I could Charlie but it was many years ago, as I remember it it was carved on the wall of a tomb. I can't, again, remember the exact wording Min but I'm sitting here scratching my head trying to work out whether or not your description would permit of the idea that the Nile had previously flow...

The usual reason given here in Europe is that there was a deluge of 'Biblical' proportions at some time in the past. If Einstein was correct in his assertions that the Earth's crust slipped we have the cause. It's worth noting (I read years ago, can't remember the source), that the Egyptians recorde...

As you say, Einstein was working on his field theory, he also incurred the wrath of the club by his extension Wegener's continental drift ideas. He who also had barrow loads of s--t heaped on him at first. Einstein was argueing that, as the continents could drift so, he believed, could the entire cr...

Just to be all mysterious on you Charlie and Min, do either of you recall what Einstein was working on at the time of his death?

That sounds like sticking plasters doesn't it? What Egyptologists rarely like to mention is the gaps in our knowledge, both within dynastic periods and in the gaps between. Much early Egyptology was devoted to trying to make it fit into Biblical chronology.

I recall Min that a programme I watched some time ago concerned the erosion on the Sphynx, on both the original rock face and on subsequent repairs, and that the geologists were adamant it was water erosion not from wind blown sand, and that the last time that Egypt was subject to such rain fall was...

Hi WA. I can't remember reading Dawkins but somewhere I read/saw that in the early days of DNA that the DNA boys caused heart attacks amongst the grave diggers by proving that mankind was only 80K years old. The solution to the crisis turned out to be, as you mention, the near extinction, and thus r...

Some amongst the Chinese have the same flood legend, their hero was called Noh! What do you make of that Min?

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear AD. Your experiense echoes mine. After a lifetime of dealing with applied physics it came as a terrible shock to find out that there was nothing more immovable in some disciplines than an 'expert' defending his corner. Somebody once commented that science advances funeral b...

Hi Stan. See if this helps. Assume the population is A, a mutation occurs, we'll call it B. Let us assume. for example that the mutation is a change in dentition, not even visible without examination. As you correctly say B has to mate with As as he is the only B. Now, according to Mendel's work the...

Thanks Cog. Very nice explanation.

I haven't read Dawkins WA, my local library and book shops don't run to that sort of thing, but punctuated equilbrium seems to me to be the only logical view. With those lizards the mutation must have already existed within the poplation to achieve such rapid progress through the species, all that w...

I suggested in an earlier thread that a mutatation in one individual should be sufficient, under the right cirumstances, to start the development of a new species. From todays Daily Express. Harvard University scientests claimed yesterday that Anolis lizards on the Bahamas changed body shape within ...