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WhiteBeastofWotan
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neal
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Apostitutes!
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Kvlt Wench
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Taking a tiny sample size of fossilized remains and placing them into chronological order based on rock layers and carbon dating, then claiming they represent an evolutionary chain is pseudoscience. There is no means to verify or falsify the stories (hypotheses is giving too much credit) that are spun by Anthropologists and Paleontologists. Many of the supposed human ancestors are known only from a tooth or a piece of a skull. Fossils give virtually no context to help us understand what they actually were in life and if they represented an ancestor species, an odd deformity/mutation, or an offshoot species that didn't make it. We don't know what time period a fossil species existed for (especially when we have exactly one example of said animal). It is entirely possible what we call an ancestor species coexisted with one of our actual ancestor species.
The truth is, barring time travel, we will never really know what happened thousands or millions of years ago. The best these soft sciences can offer are plausible sounding stories.
The truth is, barring time travel, we will never really know what happened thousands or millions of years ago. The best these soft sciences can offer are plausible sounding stories.
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El Stormo
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True enough, but what sounds more plausible? Humanity having been created through millions of years of genetic mutation, or the whole world created in seven days by some bearded dude floating in space?
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Don't argue with people that use junk philosophy to explain science, Dave. You'll only end up with a tension headache.
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That's a fact.
Can't we make our own religion? I believe that the world was created by a bearded captain who farted it into existence.
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Malergion
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There's a little thing called "science" here that you're not quite understanding.
We don't carbon date fossils.
Carbon dating requires carbon. Fossils have none. You're probably thinking of potassium-argon dating.
Scientists don't claim small samples represent the broad spectrum of the fossil record.
"Many of the suppsed human ancestors" meaning virtually none.
We have nearly complete skeletons from almost every species of human discovered and the supposedly unreliable dating methods (many versions of isotope dating similar to potassium-argon dating as well) back them in most cases. The cases where isotope dating has failed are indeed up in the air, but in that case it's often possible to use just plain archaelogical common sense.
There's also a principle called consillence. The isotope dating backs up the geology which backs up the morophology...etc.
Multiple avenues of convergence. To make such blanket statements in the negative is, with all due respect, ignorant.
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Well, malergion, you can't deny that a lot of things are still unknown about evolution, so science has to make some assumptions, right?
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