Science How This Decade of Archaeology Changed What We Know About Human Origins

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  1. riverman

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    I've been on a couple of those dates
     
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    Dating barnyard animals, for instance?

    Just remember, if the horse says "neigh", you've gotta stop.

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    It just looks old because God made it look old dammit!
     
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    If it's a Chinese horse....neigh neigh means a pair of tits so you need to check the horse's passport
     
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    The math you need to look at is the math. of probability and in this case it is virtually certain.
    So many measurements have been taken and verified that it is simply proven by probability. For it not to be the case you would need an astronomically large experiment and then there would probably be no exception. Science has accepted it as fact so why can't others? You're gonna have to show me why one should question it.
     
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    It's never stopped me. Did I just say that out loud?
     
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    What if it is an American horse that learned Chinese so that it could compete in the 21st century?

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    Science to me is questioning everything...they used to teach the world was flat in universities....some scientists have passed on questions that could not have been answered in their time on earth...the questions pass on to the next generations or many in succession. We have finite senses with which to comprehend "facts" ..until someone comes up with a break through....could take centuries to realize these developments so our questions today may not be answered in our lifetimes....that's where the massive experiment to disprove "facts" gets lost in translation. It's like the great architecture in Europe throughout the Rennaisance period...would take hundred of years to complete a cathedral and the artisans who began the vision never get to see it attain fruition. Those processes just amaze me.
     
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    duh
     
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    Well, that's a horse of a different color.
    Har har har har.
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Flat Earth was NEVER arrived at by scientists. Even ancient Greeks predicted the Earth was round.

    https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question54.html

    The theory of a flat Earth was almost certainly arrived at by the precursors of the Trump cult.
     
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    There is actually alot of arguments in the archeological circles about carbon dating, which isotope to use carbon-12, carbon-14, environmental variables, it's accuracy. Almost no one in "science" just accepts anything as fact, that's the whole point of it, to keep learning and to keep honing in and making the process better, to expand our knowledge of the physical world. I'm not saying they're "off by like 100,000 years or whatever.

    https://phys.org/news/2018-06-cornell-illuminates-inaccuracies-radiocarbon-dating.html

    Science has always been about questioning what is believed as a common fact and exploring it. That's the example of Newton, Galileo, Einstein, Boyle, Hooke, etc did they never just accepted it as fact.
     
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    Scientists weren't allowed to teach in those days Lanny...they were called philosophers or teachers or Monks or Druids, etc......science was not the church's or temple's friend when mythological religion had all the power. Galileo sure found that out. My point is that is was taught thoughout history and there are some who actually still believe it.
     
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    It's the relationship between carbon 14 and carbon 12. Now, they're even looking at Uranium.
    Still, there's no fighting probability that's why it's part of mathematics.
    Did you know that the size of the stars fits a Gaussian distribution curve? That is so awesome.
    Men's shoe sizes also fit a Gaussian distribution curve.
    I love math. Yeah, I'm nerdy.
     
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    Of course by any theory of probability there’s essentially no chance we exist, but here we are.
     
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    I disagree.
    I once did a back of the envelope calculation and came up with a chance for our existence albeit a small one but virtually no chance for life to exist anywhere else. Our planet is the result of a lot of luck. And obviously it did happen 'cause here we are. All solar systems out there that I've heard of contain rocky planets ten times the size of the earth and orbiting closer to their star then mercury orbits the sun. That's just starters. Why? Perhaps a fortuitous collision of planets and planetoids early in our history maybe more than the 4.5 Billion years we've had an Earth.
     
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    I'm not sure I buy that line of thinking.

    I could similarly say that there's essentially no chance that a green Honda would be parked next to my house today with a flat tire and a Garfield doll inside. And yet...

    When you have an enormous number of possibilities, each with a small chance of happening, it's not a surprise that one of those things actually does happen, even though the chances of that particular event were small.

    The only reason it seems miraculous to us that we exist is that we think we are somehow very very special, and thus this is the only possible outcome for the universe that matters.

    The sentient squirrels in the squirrel-verse don't agree.

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    Im not sure what you disagree with lol. Thats what I was saying the probability of life is so small that in a probability class they’d throw it out. Yet there is obviously very small chance and we’re here.
     
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    ^^^This !
     
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