"DSK" wrote in message
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Jeff Rigby wrote:
...The Indians must have been killed by violence because the white man
is evil and the US government practices genocide. That is your world
view.....

Excuse me? Where did I say any such thing?

Oh wait, I forgot, you prefer too ignore reality.



See:
http://www.uic.edu/classes/osci/osci...%20World. htm
18 million Indians die as a result of the first wave of diseases brought
to the new world by the Spanish

Yep... it says 50%, which is a *very* high mortality rate for such
plagues.

Nowhere does it say that diseases brought by Europeans wiped out 80% of
the Indians.

FIRST wave...was 50%, then the second wave more and the third wave, and on
and on Those that survived the first wave because they had an immunity to
the first disease might be killed by the second disease and so on. If they
happend to have a bad winter and many were undernourish disease would
revisit and many more would be killed. Remember we had a mini ice age just
as the first explorers and settlers were visiting this country. We had for
several years pemafrost as far south as Georgia.

One link says that one Caribbean island might have had that
high a mortality rate. The Black Death sweeping medieval Europe is now
believed to have had a mortality rate of about 30%.

And if you followed up that disease with another totally different
disease....


Another funny thing, these issues were studied and the figures derived by
the same egg-head professional scholars that you scream about when they
talk about pollution & global warming & evolution. I guess you can pick
your own science to believe in, as convenient at the moment?

In this case we have historical records (written and pictographs) as well as
sites in this country to study. Also mass graves with carbon dating.
As to pollution I don't call excess nutrients pollution, mercury and lead
yes and you can google and see my views on that. Evolution as a theory, yes
I believe in it but don't think that GOD would leave that tool out of
his(her) collection of building blocks for our universe just because it
allows us a trail of his works. Global warming, oh, yes any thinking person
will believe in the theory just not the only cause being MAN or the doomsday
senerios used to scare for political purposes.

Thanks for the interesting links.

DSK