(April 21, 2012 at 8:21 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:and yet very little is questioned when a "new discovery" is documented.
Because they better have some fucking evidence to back up their assertions or they will not survive peer-review.
That's where your bible fails. It is not true because it says it is.
Period.
It's almost like a formula. I let one of you guys assertion go unanswered and two or more will test the gap. if I let those go unanswered then as many as a 1/2 a dozen will belabor the point.
Question now is how long do i wait before I show examples of foolish conjecture and speculatirampant runs rampent in archeology and anthropology? Where all it takes is one little unexplained thing to be founcrushing an chrusexplanation explaination, mix with someone looking to make a name for himself. (especially serving popular morality) This is truly a field where the right ambition can completely literally rewrite history.
Lets talk about a well established people and a well established history, then literally a few dozen fish bones are found in what is thought to be a mess hall for the bpyramids of the pymrids, broken beer casks, coupled with the right imagination and the right degree, Dr. Hawass now cpyramidthat the prymid builders were not slaves, completely dismissing the ancient documents that said articlee. The aritical I am going to post absolutely guaranteeslutly garantees that the Idea that the builderpyramidse Great pyrmids were in fact highly paid and highly skilled craftsmen. All because they found a dozen or so gpyramidsear the ppositivelyat positivly conpyramidshat the pyrmids were built by wealthy craftsmen, and not slaves.
.. 12 graves, a few dozen fish bones in what was thought to be a mess hall with broken pottery in it, is the strongest evidence that the Leading Egyptologist has to conclude, ('Dr.'Hawass) that the Greek historians who documented the construction of the pyramids got it wrong, because of the 12 bodies along with the fish bones he found tell him otherwise.
Seriously? I could think of 20 reasons he found what he did to explain away his best guesses.. And now just because his speculations support the popular morality of his generation, A well documented History is tossed aside.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan...aves-egypt