Genetic Variation (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Saturday, October 02, 2010, 22:05 (5145 days ago) @ xeno6696

You have a completely different approach to science as I know it: You start with observations, make sure your observations as valid, and built a minimal theory with minimal assumptions. An assumption that a society could do what you suggest with no writing makes assumptions of human beings that have proven to be false for the entirety of our own known history. You're "bridging gaps with god."-I think you have assumed something here which I never proposed. I never even suggested that they had no written language. Even the 11,500 year old temple has many examples of symbol usage, which when you get down to the brass tacks, is what a written language is, as exemplified by Egyptian hieroglyphs. -As for your mention about tracking the details of an airplane, the Vimana's are well documented, and as far as I know, every civilization in which evidence for ancient aircraft have appeared had some form of written language.-Yes, I build minimal theories, with minimal assumptions, but I am not 'bridging gaps with God.' Grand Theories based on grand assumptions inevitably lead to an invalid paradigm, because they are not based on evidence. -What I asked, and what you failed to answer, is what would happen to the evidence that our archaeologist are looking for? What would happen to concrete, iron, paper, etc. over the course of 10,000 plus years of elemental exposure? The other thing I take into consideration is the question, where do we look? We have no idea, we have no clues other than what came down as myths and legends, which have on occasion proven much more valid than we ever thought possible.(The story of Gilgamesh and the black sea flood)-Working in Geophysics, the one thing I am certain of is that we know next to nothing about what actually happens on this earth. Every day, the old theories of mind numbingly slow and microscopic movements are replaced by discoveries of fast, and vast changes(in geological terms). What I am doing is not trying 'bridge the god with gaps', but to merely get academic recognition for the evidence that suggest the gaps are larger than we even suspect.