Digby wrote:And at some point science though the world was flat so how do we know they're right now?
Are you sure about that? certainly no seafaring nation ever did.
Ancients of Egypt and Greece certainly recorded the workd as being spherical; the Greeks with remarkable accuracy. [align=center]Sorry, I know what you're trying to say; I'm just pathologically incapable of letting that one pass.[/align]
Digby wrote:And at some point science though the world was flat so how do we know they're right now?
Are you sure about that? certainly no seafaring nation ever did.
Ancients of Egypt and Greece certainly recorded the workd as being spherical; the Greeks with remarkable accuracy. [align=center]Sorry, I know what you're trying to say; I'm just pathologically incapable of letting that one pass.[/align]
True enough, though I'm sure it's a statement/question which would be made in support of uncritical thinking that goes along with much of creationism.
Digby wrote:True enough, though I'm sure it's a statement/question which would be made in support of uncritical thinking that goes along with much of creationism.
Well, given that the Egyptians knew the shape of the Earth before the Earth was even created... maybe that evidence is considered insubmissable?
Digby wrote:True enough, though I'm sure it's a statement/question which would be made in support of uncritical thinking that goes along with much of creationism.
Well, given that the Egyptians knew the shape of the Earth before the Earth was even created... maybe that evidence is considered insubmissable?
Digby wrote:And at some point science though the world was flat so how do we know they're right now?
Are you sure about that? certainly no seafaring nation ever did.
Ancients of Egypt and Greece certainly recorded the workd as being spherical; the Greeks with remarkable accuracy. [align=center]Sorry, I know what you're trying to say; I'm just pathologically incapable of letting that one pass.[/align]
Are you thinking of Eratosthenes? He was born in Ancient Egypt, yes (well, 276 BCE) but the city he was born in, Cyrene, was a Greek city.
I'm a god
How can you kill a god?
Shame on you, sweet Nerevar
Digby wrote:And at some point science though the world was flat so how do we know they're right now?
Are you sure about that? certainly no seafaring nation ever did.
Ancients of Egypt and Greece certainly recorded the workd as being spherical; the Greeks with remarkable accuracy. [align=center]Sorry, I know what you're trying to say; I'm just pathologically incapable of letting that one pass.[/align]
Are you thinking of Eratosthenes? He was born in Ancient Egypt, yes (well, 276 BCE) but the city he was born in, Cyrene, was a Greek city.
Rings a bell as the Greek, yeah
Though I have a feeling I'm confusing Egyptian and Chinese going further back; I can't really remember though.
How much will they be able to learn from DNA testing on that feathered tail? Does anyone know? What most of us would really like to know is whether the dinos were warm-blooded like birds or cold-blooded like reptiles. I believe the current consensus is they were cold-blooded, unlike birds...
If they're good enough to play at World Cups, why not in between?
Looking to the future, it's pretty much a given that vegetables are far healthier for humans than meat, and that we could actually get along without meat, and certainly red meat, without too much difficulty at all. I'm guessing by the end of this century red meat will have all but disappeared from the human diet, and that by the end of the next we may be off meat altogether. And then we will come to regard meat-eating the way we regard cannibalism today, and look back upon these times as horribly barbaric.
If they're good enough to play at World Cups, why not in between?
Digby wrote:And at some point science though the world was flat so how do we know they're right now?
Are you sure about that? certainly no seafaring nation ever did.
Ancients of Egypt and Greece certainly recorded the workd as being spherical; the Greeks with remarkable accuracy.
Mediaeval muslins produced a few clever scientician eggheads.
Digby wrote:And at some point science though the world was flat so how do we know they're right now?
Are you sure about that? certainly no seafaring nation ever did.
Ancients of Egypt and Greece certainly recorded the workd as being spherical; the Greeks with remarkable accuracy.
Mediaeval muslins produced a few clever scientician eggheads.
Fascinating story about the first Australians here:
Many researchers have previously argued that the megafauna became extinct soon after the arrival of the First Australians.
For example, it has been argued that perhaps firing of the landscape dramatically altered ancient Australia’s ecology. One species in particular, the giant flightless bird Genyornis newtoni was investigated and shown to have succumbed to significant habitat change and direct predation.
But the hypothesis for Genyornis‘ extinction has come under significant criticism due to the emergence of counter evidence. Firstly the egg shells thought to be from Genyornis are considered by leading palaeontologists to perhaps be from a much smaller megapode.
The evidence for firing of the landscape, as studied through the genomes of fire sensitive plants, shows no record of plants going through genetic bottlenecks as a result of significant firing events.
It seems that Aboriginal populations may not have been that large until much later in prehistory. Our genomic research has revealed that significant demographic changes did not occur until some 10,000 years ago. The genomic evidence suggests that for tens of thousands of years, Aboriginal populations were not that large.
More careful analysis of the record often reveals a very different picture.
