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Re: Adventurer Maps
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 14 Dec 1999 20:33:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jeff Thompson writes:
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> Occam's razor: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/OCCAMRAZ.html
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> "one should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities
> required to explain anything"
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> No reason to add aliens into the mix to explain the pinacles of
> ancient human achievements. Humans are amazingly clever enough to be
> explanation enough.
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> The idea of ancient astronauts is a nice romantic idea, but it seems
> insulting to me, too. Humans are, as I said, an amazingly clever
> lot. We like to think of our modern culture, with our high tech
> gadgets, as being smarter than people in the past, but, the truth
> is, we just have more toys. People's brains were just as big back then.
> The capacity to generate a Leonardo Da Vinci or an Einstein has been
> with us as long as we've had this genetic structure that makes us
> homo sapiens.
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> What is amazing about the pyramids is to think about the
> staggering social structure capable of ruling that many people
> that tightly to bind their subjects into working that hard and
> that long to build such massive structures. That's the awe-inspiring
> thing to me. Not imagining that UFOs helped build them.
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> I recommend reading the old book "Crash Go The Chariots," a thorough
> debunking of Erich Von Daniken's "Chariots of the Gods" books. I'm
> sure there are more recent books that address more recent claims.
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> On the other hand, some of those mayan carvings really do look
> a bit like space-suited aliens at the controls of spaceships.
> I do have a bit of the romantic in me. It's a fun idea. But
> I'd rather give people the credit for building the pyramids.
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> --
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> jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"
You're right. It is insulting. But, it makes great fiction : )
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| (...) mistaken. (...) If (...) Occam's razor: (URL) should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything" No reason to add aliens into the mix to explain the pinacles of ancient human achievements. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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