Drop of ancient seawater rewrites Earth's history

EurekAlert! ^ | August 1, 2019 | University of the Witwatersrand

[Constitution Day]

Komati river near Barberton in Mpumalanga ............. Is that near Wakanda?😄..........

Funny! You can probably see Wakanda from there. :)

Mpumalanga is what the Eastern Transvaal was renamed after apartheid ended. Very beautiful area on the border of Swaziland; Kruger National Park is close to this town. I traveled there some years ago.

[momincombatboots]

Gosh, you got me.

[Tucker39]

And if we believe THAT, they’ll tell us another one.

[Larry Lucido]

When can we reunite Pangaea? Then we’ll really be able to take the train everywhere!

[thoughtomator]

I have a feeling that these people have no idea what actual proof of something is.

If you add up all the uncertainties underlying claims of events said to happen hundreds of millions of years ago or more, they add up to north of 99%.

You can’t hand-wave accumulated uncertainty and declare the outcome to be a proof, not if you want to be taken seriously by serious people.

[SunkenCiv]

have no idea what actual proof of something is

Right back at ya. And no, the word "proof" doesn't even occur in the article, which was written by a journalist.

[thoughtomator]

But the word “proves” does occur, in the third sentence, and is the object of my criticism.

Failures in the acknowledgement of uncertainty turn science into cultism.

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Komati river near Barberton in Mpumalanga

What planet is this?

[SunkenCiv]

Regardless, it's an article by a science journalist, not by the authors of the paper.

[SunkenCiv]

I didn’t want to look it up, luckily someone came through for us:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3769334/posts?page=21#21

[thoughtomator]

Given how frequent this practice is among science journalists, it’s amazing scientists don’t object and correct more often, don’t you think?

[SunkenCiv]

No one buys your fake concern about the state of science, don't you get it?

[thoughtomator]

Seems there is more agreement here for my point of view on the matter than yours.

Count ‘em... if you can.

[Rebelbase]

[SunkenCiv]

Trolls in science topics? I don't count 'em, because they don't count.

[thoughtomator]

put the cultish nonsense in Religion where it belongs and you can have your troll-free environment

[SunkenCiv]

Ridiculous, since this is a science topic, and you are a troll.

[thoughtomator]

Ah yes, mysticism about things allegedly happening hundreds of years ago, with no possibility of experimental proof whatsoever, is “science”.

Take your religion and file it properly in the future and you won’t get pushback from people who know what science is.