Genetic Variation (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 01:57 (4984 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Well, for a start, I will say that I have no full hypothesis to put out there. However, for a start, lets go back to square one, scratch the theories, and reexamine the data from square one, preferably without preconceived notions of how things should be. For example, lets start by trying to understand how the mathematics of the Babylonians, Egyptians, Mayans, Indians, and others were as advanced as they were. That crap doesn't just pop out of cave walls. Let us not assume that the ancients were simply delusional, or feeling especially poetic when they wrote things like:
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> From the Vimanas..
> >'I quickly laid on an arrow, which killed by seeking out sound'.
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> >'...a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and fire, as brilliant as ten thousands suns, rose in all its splendor. It was the unknown weapon, the Iron Thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death......The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. The hair and nails fell out; pottery broke without apparent cause(shockwaves?), and the birds turned white. After a few hours all foodstuffs were infected... to escape from this fire. The soldiers threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and their equipment (Hair and nails falling out, poisoned food stuffs... sounds a tad like radiation poisoning..no?)
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> >"a great flying bird of light material. Inside one must put the mercury engine with its iron heating apparatus underneath. By means of the power latent in the mercury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion, a man sitting inside may travel a great distance in the sky. The movements of the Vimana are such that it can vertically ascend, vertically descend, move slanting forwards and backwards. With the help of the machines human beings can fly in the air and heavenly beings can come down to earth."
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> Particularly when we see the Egyptians with hieroglyphs of aircrafts and toy gliders, central american artifacts that are uncanny in their resemblance to modern aircraft. Not to mention the Piri Reis map, the Fuente Magna.(The character Putaki referenced in the article on Fuente Magna bares a striking resemblance to the same triune mentioned in Hindu texts, the Cabala, the Bible, the Koran, and Greek, Roman, and Egyptian mythology. Ironically, it was written in Proto-Sumerian which further mucks up the modern evolutionary/historical ideal seeing as how it was found in South America.)What about the light bulbs in Egyptian hieroglyphs, or the Baghdad Batteries? 
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> We ignore the one offs because they don't fit the theory. I am sorry that I don't have a replacement theory for evolution or our current historical mismatches. But there the data is. It exists. Why do we ignore it?-Because in some instance those ancient societies went directions that created intrinsic difficulties. Sumerian's used a base 60 system for counting. You might think, "So what," but in this system it is incredibly difficult to deal with prime numbers. That means that a very large swath of discovery was closed. Some kinds of ideas are limited by their systems. For base 2 is the only algebraic system that allows mathematics and logic to perfectly combine; There's other bases that allow you to do other things better than base 10, but my overall point was that though they were sophisticated for what they had to deal with, what we have available to us now is clearly better; being able to change bases at will allows us to do more than the ancients could imagine. The Greeks were able to destroy the Sumerians in math--culminating in "The Elements," the only book to compete with the Bible for most books ever sold. -The Sumerian system was fantastic for its purposes though; the number 60 has the most factors of any other composite number making offhand calculations a cinch. Math is a difficult thing to try and compare us vs. the ancients on; this is because Math is always based on everything that came before it. The ancients began it, but we took it to heights that no one even dreamed of 200 years ago. In fact, Euler was the last mathematical polyglot. After his death the subject became so vast that we reach where we're at today when a PhD can only reach the math of the 1950's by the time he begins his thesis. -The Greeks may have invented Exhaustion, but Newton/Leibniz gave us calculus. The rest, is history.

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