From: martinharran@gmail.com   
      
   On Sun, 8 Feb 2026 09:21:45 -0600, DB Cates    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 2026-02-08 8:43 a.m., Martin Harran wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 7 Feb 2026 11:37:04 -0600, DB Cates    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2026-02-07 8:36 a.m., Martin Harran wrote:   
   >>   
   >> […]   
   >>   
   >>>>>> Have you never heard the expression "Remember man that thou art dust   
   >>>>>> and unto dust shalt return"? It will be said to me later this month as   
   >>>>>> it is every Ash Wednesday.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>    
   >>>>> WOW.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Did you never wonder why Catholics go around on Ash Wednesday with   
   >>>> dirty marks on their forehead?   
   >>>   
   >>> Here's a little personal info so yuou might take your head out of your ass.   
   >>> I grew up in a protestant household (call it Christianity lite) and   
   >>> married into a large French-Canadian family (very Catholic). Lots of   
   >>> Catholic weddings and funerals; quite a few Midnight Masses (loved the   
   >>> music). So I am not ignorant of Catholic ritual.   
   >>   
   >> Apologies if I came across as trying to teach my grandma to suck eggs,   
   >> that's the last thing I would try to do but what was behind the double   
   >> blink and WOW when I referred to "Remember man that thou art dust …"?   
   >> That is what I was responding to.   
   >>   
   >> […]   
   >>   
   >My response was not to that one bit but to the entire post. The sudden   
   >jump from descent from some first human couple to matter (dust? mud?) as   
   >the common ancestor.   
      
   OK, my mistake.   
      
   If you go back to the start of this sub-thread (Mon, 05 Jan 2026   
   14:11:04 +0000), I gave a list of about 10 things that the authors   
   gave as examples of science agreeing with ancient religious beliefs.   
   Mt-Eve and Y-Adam were just one of them, and not a particularly   
   important one to me, but Harshman turned it into a major argument,   
   initially by making up stupid crap about me thinking they were one   
   couple.   
      
   I wasn't trying to make matter a common ancestor, it was just I don't   
   think we are going to get any further with that particular topic as we   
   are just going back over the same ground again and again so I thought   
   it would help to broaden the discussion out a bit. Not looking to make   
   excuses but I was also probably somewhat distracted by Vincent's   
   argument about atheists being smarter than theists and  RonO's stupid   
   crap about the authors and myself being Biblical Creationists.   
      
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