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Can I pass? The Creationists, IME, cannot and will not recognize facts or argumeents that oppose their own beliefs, so arguing with them is a waste of time and energy.
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This seems opposite to other studies that have come down firmly in favor of interbreeding as the cause of the shared Neanderthal genes. I suspect a fight will now have to ensue to determine who is correct.
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FWIW, I enjoyed Prometheus even though the plot had some "Monster Movie 101" moments (e.g. "let's split up and go in different directions"). The Scriptwriters paid a lot of attention to the backgorund story of the first Alien movie and managed to create a convincing prequel to it, but there were still some holes that they may explain in the next one (which there will be g
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Looks like fun. I would love to see a movie made of the Musical Wicked.
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I don't know how Scandanvia is near the top of that list: I have yet to meet an out of shape Scandanavian. They tend to eat a lot less than the average American and seem to work out a lot more. Maybe the out of shape Scandanvians never leave their country?
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Thanks, Katherine G, that was very informative. I already knew about the Mesopotamian origin of the Bible Flood story and it goes to show that the roots of Genmatria possibly predate the Jews themselves.
Khazar-Khum:
Quote40, 7, 3 and 9 are all considered to be 'magic numbers'
And more besides. I remembered reading about a connection between the number 40 and the movement of Ven
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Well that should start the controversy all over again. I had thought the cosmic impact theory had been discounted due to the length of time it took for the mass-extinction of Megafauna to occur?
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Why assume they are Alien to this planet and visitng? There are many accounts from history to indicate that, whatever UFOs really are, they have been with us since the dawn of civilization. We may just not be the only intelligent life on this planet and the life-form or forms we share it with may not only exist in the dimensions of space-time that we are aware of.
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Jammer: funny I thought you were referring to Nazca: it has been proposed that the tribes who created the patterns on teh plains used them as pathways in ritual dances/processions and there's a pretty good likelyhood some of that activity was intended to bring on the rains.
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Ancient History
The "Bible Codes" book and others of its ilk were pretty comprehensively debunked, but that doesn't mean there aren't numeric codes in the Bible. Since ancient times, Jews have ascribed numbers to each letter of the alphabet and certain numbers have had special significance. You can defintely find letter->number transpositions that had numerological significance in the Old
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I recently read Jacques Vallees classic book on the subject: Passport to Magonia. In it, he makes a compelling case for UFO and alien encounters being a modern re-framing of paranormal events and encounters with "Fantasy" beings from the past (Fairies, Goblins and the like). Instead of Fairy-Lights, goblins and will-o-the-whisps, people are interpreting these phenomena to be Alien space
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The Nazca lines are one of my favorite ancient mysteries: I have yet to read any convincing explanation of why they were created, my own pet theory is they had something to do with marking-out of water rights, due to the scarcity of water in that area. I'm quite sure we know why the Pyramids were built, no mystery there at all. Harrappa was a city inhabited by the Indus Valley civilzation: n
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I'm not going to dismiss Rogene Cortes' account out of hand, but it is 3rd-hand info, (her Husband was not on base when it happened) and her husband is no longer alive, but it seems like he would have had access to privileged intel. I think you do have to question why it took her so long to come forward and only to this one author.
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I'm not sure why these Newpapers couldn't just put "Journatic" as a byline in the same way they do with articles sourced from AP (Associated Press) or Reuters. Perhaps it would show that most of the news articles in their paper are from outside sources? It just goes to show that real independent journalism is a nearly-dead art in the US.
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If you are worried about privacy: buy real books (using cash if you are that paranoid). It will help the few bookstores that are remaining to stay in business. It doesn't strike me as a good thing to give over control of access to the printed word to a few mega-corporations.
On a related note: it's a sad fact that two of the people I worked with recently, both in their early 20
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Quote"The closest we have to the post of 'UFO Expert' is probably my own, but this has always been a generalist, non-technical post with the emphasis on correspondence with the public."
Which means they don't actually investigate anything. This basically mirrors the approach the US Air Force has taken since the ending of Project Blue Book.
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Hah, I was just going to post something on this. Here's the press spin on it:
"Fossilized human feces hints at long-lost, 13,500-year-old West Coast culture"
It does look like 13.5 KYA Fossilized Poop has hammered the last nail in the Clovis coffin.
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The rate of temperature increase now is much more dramatic than back then, I don't think there can be any dispute about the measurements. What I don't think we will know for at least a couple of decades is how much human activity is contributing to the rate of warming or whether or not we have broken the natural feedback loop that allows the climate to stay within habitable bounds. So,
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You always have to be wary of whether these types of insiders really would have had access to that kind of information, The author's job was "entertainment and publication industries liaison" which would lead me to be a bit skeptical about that. He claims to have "discovered" secret documents about Roswell that were somehow just lying around in a historical archive at the
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That would make it the first ever monument constructed for such a purpose, IMO. Usually, monuments are constructed after a conflict to commemorate the defeat and crushing of your enemies. So little is known about the political and social sitution in Britain back then, not to mention Religious beliefs, I don't know know anyone can come to any firm conclusion about the purpose of Stonehenge.
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I think a hundred years from now we may have gathered enough detailed data to make reasonable predictions about Global climate change, Until then, the best anyone can offer is an educated guess.
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I remember reading a book back in the early 80's called The Coming Dark Age. According to the predictions made by the author: by now, civilization as we know it should have collapsed and we should have returned to a feudal society. If there's one thing I've learned since then it is predictions of a bright future don't sell many books.
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QuoteShe's really Mary Magdalene!
Oh no, not that again. She really isn't!
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Please do, I'm sympathetic to the case of the Neanderthals. I think they were more sophisticated and intelligent than they have been given credit for in the past (and not just because of the Geico ads, either).
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QuoteFirst, Kat you stated: ""The sun was revered as a supreme deity by the Natchez and others of the ancient Southeast" ..so Idoubt they saw the sun as a star."
And my response was that just because they saw it as a deity doesn't mean they also didn't see it as a star. And I used evidence of Venus ALSO being seen as a deity BUT ALSO being seen as a star. That
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The similarities (especially the Venus symbol) are quite striking to me, but have you considered the possibility that these symbols might have traveled south with the people that migrated and eventually became the Maya? Symbols have a great deal of longevity and we have inherited some that are thousands of years old (although their meanings may have changed down through the ages).
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donald r raab Wrote:
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> Off to the open sea we go. But superman swimmers
> are a simpler explanation
Maybe for islands close by, but getting to Crete suggests they had some assistance either from a boat or a flotation-aid (like a log):
"Crete has been an island for some 5 million years and is 40 kilometres from its close
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I'm sure Poussin would be utterly bewildered by the whole affair. In the fake parchments, there are only 2 words that concern him and his paintings: "Shepherdess" and "Poussin", that's it. It's amazing what people can stitch together out of such small fragments. You would think there would be more focus on the Shepherdess herself .
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The current state of the Patent system is farcical and in need of a major overhaul. What worked well for the 19th and early 20th Centuries has long since become obsolete, un-manageable and easily-exploited.
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Given the pattern of drift from Japan to Alaska, I,m wondering if this is an alternative (and easier as long as supplies were sufficient) route to population of the Americas rather than over-land?
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