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There's something endlessly humbling about looking beyond a human lifespan. It's at least one of the reasons I find the Long Now Foundation so intriguing.
by secstate 2y ago
There's something endlessly humbling about looking beyond a human lifespan. It's at least one of the reasons I find the Long Now Foundation so intriguing.
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- nine_k 2y agoIf written records are to be believed, Earth has seen tons of supernatural beings, dragons, giant fish, entire Middle East being flooded, etc. This is not counting humans being produced from clay, etc. What passes for scientific evidence in history is something that cross-checks with a bunch of other things that are dated reliably, through multiple sources, astronomy, and methods from other hard sciences.
- taneq 2y agoNowhere in the Bible does it say that Jesus was NOT a velociraptor.
- endofreach 2y agoI imagine someone sitting with a "jesus was a velociraptor– change my mind" sign somewhere on a college campus.
- Zu_ 2y agoThis seems to be very dismissive of all the physical evidence we _do_ have. Text isn't the only way to store information, i.e. we can draw lots of conclusions from fossils, ruins or even sediment layers etc.