[Fyron]

The 'date' that is most often used for the 'age' of the rock in question is based on the so called 'index fossils' found either in the rock itself or in the same geologic strata. However, the scientists then turn around and use the 'evidence' of the age of the rock to 'support' the theory of evolution, which is circular reasoning, as they used the theory of evolution to date the rock.

That is wrong. The ages of rocks are calculated from the half-lives of and relative levels of Carbon, Uranium, and a few other substances in the rocks. This has nothing at all to do with the theory of evolution, and is in no way circular reasoning.

Originally posted by Mephisto:

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Maybe we should implement that in classes at College... those Celts were on to something... j/k

Ah, better not. Don't want to be at the receiving end.

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Well... all of my lectures have at least half of the enrolled students gone each day. Maybe just sacrifice those that consistently fail to show up? j/k ofc

You might be right about equality. But the Celts did have slaves, a quick link is here:
http://perso.club-internet.fr/yesss/...Celt/celts.htm

First off, that links to a page discussing the Irish Celts, and as such, is not representative of Celts in general. With that being said, I had never heard anything about Celts owning slaves. I guess they did not own very many of them. Not that the Romans owned huge amounts; they did have a higher proportion of slaves than the Celts would have had though.

If your argument is more on the line that the did not enslave as much people as the Romans: Well, the Romans didn't enslave everyone else either. In most cases only those who resisted them. Many Gallic tribes were not enslaves (make this almost all). They took hostages but that was not slavery.

The Romans did not enslave everyone; that was not my point. Like the Greeks, their slaves were mostly prisoners of war, those that could not pay off their debts, and people sold into slavery as children by their parents so that they could pay off their debts (though I think the Last one was not very common). And, of course, it was not racial slavery, but economic slavery. They did not enslave whole races of people.

[ March 13, 2003, 01:37: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]