A mortal blow to Young Earth creationism

[Doc Dutch]

Sounds like he's a schizophrenic case.

That's my guess. He toned down his other personalities but is still "Sybil".

[Trumpet]

That's my guess. He toned down his other personalities but is still "Sybil".

The far right sure knows how to indoctrinate the feeble minded, and those with severe mental issues.

[ThatOwlWoman]

Bones decompose at different rates depending on the soil and other conditions. A human skeleton can decompose in 20 years. It’s why we don’t find ancient skeletons, conditions have to be perfect to preserve the bones.

Thank you. Quite true. My anthropology professor has been called to help the medical examiner identify remains found up here, usually well-decayed and gnawed on (and removed) by wild animals. In a typical climate with moderate rainfall they decay quickly. We have a "body farm" up here that the university runs. You can donate your remains to it. It's used to help forensic scientists and law enforcement study the effects of decomposition in a cold climate.

https://www.nmu.edu/frost/home

[Doc Dutch]

For sure, I do not think Daoists, Theravada Buddhism, Neoconfucists, Hindus, or the various and sundry practices of animism even understand or recognize the dogmatic modern western definition of what religion is allowed to be.

I try not to pigeonhole it, but in it's broadest sense I like the Stackhouse definition that it is a systematic metaphysical moral worldview which is generally held as binding by a community in the belief it reflects a higher truth.

Stackhouse's definition works.

[Doc Dutch]

The far right sure knows how to indoctrinate the feeble minded, and those with severe mental issues.

Agreed. To be fair, so does the far left.

OTOH, my observation is that religion and/or politics rarely makes people crazy but crazy people are drawn to the extremes of politics and religion to, IMO, justify their actions and beliefs.

[Doc Dutch]

The far right sure knows how to indoctrinate the feeble minded, and those with severe mental issues.

Agreed. To be fair, so does the far left.

OTOH, my observation is that religion and/or politics rarely makes people crazy but crazy people are drawn to the extremes of politics and religion to, IMO, justify their actions and beliefs.

[Phantasmal]

Thank you. Quite true. My anthropology professor has been called to help the medical examiner identify remains found up here, usually well-decayed and gnawed on (and removed) by wild animals. In a typical climate with moderate rainfall they decay quickly. We have a "body farm" up here that the university runs. You can donate your remains to it. It's used to help forensic scientists and law enforcement study the effects of decomposition in a cold climate.

https://www.nmu.edu/frost/home

Wow! I know they have one at Quantico, and it makes since to have them in different climates. It fascinates me, I love forensic science.

[Celticguy]

It is probably Neaderthals or Homo Denisovans, because I do not think Homo Sapiens were on the Tibetan plateau 226k years ago.

seems like every year there is a new discovery that rewrites the presumed history of man on earth.
I'm inclined to withhold opinion until such time as they have sufficient data to make a better theory.

[Cypress]

Thank you. Quite true. My anthropology professor has been called to help the medical examiner identify remains found up here, usually well-decayed and gnawed on (and removed) by wild animals. In a typical climate with moderate rainfall they decay quickly. We have a "body farm" up here that the university runs. You can donate your remains to it. It's used to help forensic scientists and law enforcement study the effects of decomposition in a cold climate.

https://www.nmu.edu/frost/home

Thank you for adding some brainpower to the thread.

How do you manage to tolerate the scientific illiteracy of the right wing?

I tolerate it by equating it to comedy gold

[Cypress]

seems like every year there is a new discovery that rewrites the presumed history of man on earth.
I'm inclined to withhold opinion until such time as they have sufficient data to make a better theory.

I believe every educated person is aware that scientific knowledge is provisional and incomplete. What we know about human evolution today will be substantially different from what is understood 50 years from now.

In 50 years we won't just be using fossil evidence, but we will have more and better genetic evidence for anatomically-modern humans as well as archaic humans, aka Neaderthals, Homo Erectus etc.

[goat]

Shut the fuck up, Donny.

That's old school science debate.

[ThatOwlWoman]

Wow! I know they have one at Quantico, and it makes since to have them in different climates. It fascinates me, I love forensic science.

Same here. I esp. like forensic anthropology, and hope to be able to take the one they offer at NMU. Doesn't this look so cool?

[moon]

That's old school science debate.

It's actually group therapy.

[Phantasmal]

Same here. I esp. like forensic anthropology, and hope to be able to take the one they offer at NMU. Doesn't this look so cool?

That does look interesting.

[goat]

It's actually group therapy.

Anger management?