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'Based on this map that i found in the tomb, I pose the theory, that the holy grail was burried on the spot marked with x' 'Let us test your theory by diggin
by fifnir 8y ago
'Based on this map that i found in the tomb, I pose the theory, that the holy grail was burried on the spot marked with x'
'Let us test your theory by digging there'
'We found it! Yeah! Science bitch!'
Seriously how is history not a scientific field for you?
- 08-15 8y agoFictional archaeology isn't history, is it? Anyway, there are no experiments in history, therefore any "theory" is untestable. History is... I'm missing a word here, but historians are scholars, not scientists.
- madhadron 8y agoNote that the best evidence for many things comes from naturally occurring cases that look like experiments. The link between smoking and lung cancer is most definitively shown by twin studies, for example, which are purely observational.
- jinpa_zangpo 8y agoThere are no experiments in astronomy either.
- 08-15 8y agoThank you for making my point.