cladking Wrote:
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> OCaptain Wrote:
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> > Math alone is not enough upon which to hang up
> an
> > entire civilization, and that is what you're
> > asking us to do.
> >
> > You're underselling the ancient Egyptians,
> > insulting their intelligence, just so you can
> > propose an entire lost civilization, for which
> > there is no other evidence.
> >
> > It's just too flimsy, and surely you can't be
> > surprised that people are calling it into
> > question.
>
> You seem to have missed most of the points of the
> post. At least math really exists where none of
> the evidence predicted by orthodox beliefs exists.
>
>
> Considering that we have none of the expected
> evidence it throws everything into question
> including the unsupported concept that the author
> is calling "evolution": that one science exists
> and it must always progress. We have the concept
> that only humans understand science and it is
> revealed to us through our intellect which also
> only progresses. One needn't know what the
> reality is to see that the people of the 4th
> dynasty who had evolved from cavemen didn't build
> G1.
Many people use the term "evolution" to mean "increasing levels of physical or technological advancement", but that's not what evolution is, at least the way I understand it. Rather, it simply refers to "adaptation" to the environment. In such a definition, a cockroach is arguably more evolved than humans.