Vision and Evolution (A Critique of Dawkins)

[Peebothuhlu]

At work.

Consider the difficulty of understanding a newly discovered stone tablet with some imaginary ancient language. They appear to us as scribbles because that's all they are. The language itself is lost with the minds of the civilization in which it existed.

Seriously?

That’s all they are?

They’re often the thoughts and daily goings on of people in a list culture long gone.

They give us insights to their culture, their laws, and how they lived their lives.

Dismissing them as “squiggles” is an insult to those who came before us and those of us who are interested in these ancient peoples, as well as those who dedicate their lives learning about them.

There are lost squiggles of the Greeks I would love to have rediscovered.

The writings of the Minoans (Those that we have) would be fascinating. A culture that has no known depiction of war. Amazing.