Genetic Variation (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, October 02, 2010, 14:05 (5166 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

I could just as easily ask what evidence do you have that it was built by the Egyptians or Babylonians since, -Reread what I wrote and tell me where I made that claim.->as as far as we know according to the current historical paradigm, they were counted as among the very few to have access to those math systems at the time Stonehenge was erected (between 2800-1600BC)and were quite some distance away from the area under discussion. I am not suggesting that they didn't know trig or geometry, I was sarcastically suggesting that our current historical paradigm is wrong.-I don't know another way to say that. If you study nascent cultures even today, they can explain in non-mathematical language many geometrical truths, and with some of these cultures you can't make the case that they learned it by having contact with other, "more advanced" civilizations. We reason spatially fairly well as a species, and we can discover mathematical truths empirically by trial and error. -You mistake having knowledge of geometry/trig with having a complex and rigorous system based around it. You can do alot with a little; but the greatest feats are reserved for those cultures who made it at least a semi-rigorous system. -And history (like any other science) is purely evidence-based. If you see Stonehenge, you have to assume that the builders had access to that knowledge. However, assumption isn't knowledge, and therefore remains a mystery. The epistemology of history is predicated on what we can know for sure with x degree of accuracy. You might not like how history works in that way, but unless you can find a better method of induction, that's how the machine operates efficiently. -You seem to suffer from the same malady as David, in that you wish the paradigms would change more rapidly. Unless you solve the problem of change management for humanity, this is, and always will be--an uphill battle. Except for a few of us, we seem preprogrammed for certainty--we don't give up our ideas easily.

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