I mean if modern day humans have been around for tens of thousands of years, then where are all the skyscrapers from years gone by? Where are all the books and artifacts? Where are the planes and cars?
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Well, you know, since we've only just developed technologies like that recently, it stands to reason that...
That's right, because skyscrapers, planes and cars all date back 6,000 years to the Garden of Eden.
Well,...honey, we didn't recognize the potential value of hydrocarbons until around 1850, and as Tempus stated, you Xian fundy fuckwits burnt down the library of Alexandria and all subsequent attempts to preserve and retain knowledge were similiarly dealt with.The Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria at the time is (not) coincidentially the patron saint of arsonists.
To Tempus,
Yes, because, you know, there were skyscrapers in the middle Ages, or planes or cars...........are you idiot, or which part of the history class did you miss?
@Papabear
No, if SS goes to the clue store he should buy a 6-pack.
To Tempus,
They never existed because in those times the world was ruled by fundies, everyone spent their time talking to the giant man with a long white beard who lived on a cloud instead of studying evolution.
"Modern day humans" means BIOLOGICALLY modern, you twit, not technologically modern. It's an evolutionary reference, though, which explains why you are so willfully resistant to understanding it.
There's plenty of ancient skyscrapers, they're called pyramids; millions of books were burned by the early Christains, and the not-so-early ones too, from the Library of Alexandria to the Maya Codexes in the 1500's. Of course you wouldn't know that because you don't read anything except the Bible ( KJV)
I've heard tell that even if the Library at Alexandria had survived, there's no guarantee that the civilization it represented would have moved significantly faster than it has in reality. The firm belief in Aristotilian natural principles may have set back the formation of the scientific method to create accurate models of reality by much longer than actually burning down the library did.
If you believe the thesis of "The Closing of the Western Mind" (Freeman, C., 2002), the Christian church was largely responsible for stifling the Western intellectual tradition begun by the Greeks until the 17th century. So by that theory, the human curiosity needed for the creation of skyscrapers, planes and cars was crushed by religion until fairly recently.
Interestingly, there would propably be centuries-old skyscrapels by now were it not for Christianity suppressing sciences in Europe. Not only did they burn books, as pointed out by many, they even burned quite a few people that might have figured those books out.
You know, I'm a senior in the Anthropology department of Appalachian State University, and while I was taking the Field School course (where a bunch of students actually go and do archaeology), I personally excavated a stone knife made in the Paleoindian period. This particular knife dated to I think about 12,000 years ago. Oops, did I just destroy your theory? The cities may not have been as grand, but they were DEFINITELY there.
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