RE: Across Atlantic Ice
February 2, 2012 at 8:42 pm
(This post was last modified: February 2, 2012 at 8:46 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Style of stone tools suggests, but does not prove cultural contact. It is one piece of evidence. A hypothesis may be born of a single piece of suggestive evidence. But to be taken as working theory, it needs support of the proponderance of all available evidence, or better still, conclusive evidence.
The fact that a hypothesis hypothesize something which by its nature leave little or no evidence can't be used to excuse the absence of evidence in its own support. A theory involving something that is intrinsically hard to prove is just as weak as one which involves something theoretically easy to prove but for which proof is not forthcoming.
The fact that a hypothesis hypothesize something which by its nature leave little or no evidence can't be used to excuse the absence of evidence in its own support. A theory involving something that is intrinsically hard to prove is just as weak as one which involves something theoretically easy to prove but for which proof is not forthcoming.
