Evidence: We are not alone (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, January 04, 2015, 14:36 (3611 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained


> Tony: Well, we know for fact, based on archaeological evidence, that they had advanced mathematics, and there is evidence to suggest they had knowledge of advanced optics and nanotechnology. There is also evidence for technology on the other end of the scale, at least as far back as the Babylonians, and some evidence suggests further back to the Minoans. We know for a fact that they had sophisticated language, writing, art, and religion. We know for a fact that had advanced knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, metallurgy, and medicine (Brain surgery in ancient Egypt and plastic surgery in ancient India). 
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> Tony: What you are really saying here is, sure, they had the math, science, engineering, medicine, government, urban planning and development, but they were still backwoods hillbillies in terms of philosophy. That makes no sense at all.-Your facts are perfectly correct. And I remind myself that current philosophers refer regularly to Plato and Aristotle.-My point differs in that you are referring to the foundations of knowledge and thought built by previous humans. We have built on that previous development. I think we are more complete now that we have modern research and communication to show all of us what the rest of us have done in the past. The explosion of knowledge I've seen in my lifetime is amazing. Don't you think human thought evolves?