... picked it up at a charity used book sale. Initial premise is that certain artifacts marked with Greek letters appeared to be 500 years too old for such writing.
Posted on 01/12/2005 11:11:11 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Actually, Fred, it was a joke. IIRC, golf originated in Scotland, where the pictured objects were found.
I knew you were joking!
Catalog of Anomalies (Archeology Subjects)
http://www.science-frontiers.com/cat-arch.htm
http://www.ralph-abraham.org/courses/math181/math181.S96/lectures/lecture.4w/balls.html
Google 'carved stone balls Scotland' - there's lots more.
Oopart is the name I heard, too, as in out-of-place artifact. Personally I take the same view on them as Rene Noorbergen did; he suggested they're from an extinct human civilization, most likely the one destroyed in Noah's Flood.
... picked it up at a charity used book sale. Initial premise is that certain artifacts marked with Greek letters appeared to be 500 years too old for such writing.
But a goodie. I feel like I've been under a (new)rock ;^)
Seems I've heard of maybe one or two of these "anamolies" but brushed 'em off like, well, UFO's and such. You da man; what's your take???
Whoa, thanks... I'm never surprised by the ingenuity of humans. While there is obvious value to a continuity of learning (for one example, an improving/changing series of tools, going from obsidian blades to moving individual items to spell "IBM"), anyone (or culture) with quiet time and a food surplus seems to have generated both artistic and technological marvels. There's also this to consider -- the traditional view of civilization as a single movement of constant development uses an approx 7000 year line. There's plenty of room for 7000 year contiguous units to have come and gone, and plenty of time for the most obvious and durable traces to either vanish, or to be tagged as natural formations, or chronologically adjusted. :')
Because of the devotion to the conventional pseudochronology, discoveries which undermine it have to be ignored, or have abuse heaped on them, or result in an outlandish adjustment of some kind. Very rarely does it result in radical chronological adjustments (although that does happen, in the example of the reduction by centuries of the date for Hammurabi).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1406892/posts?page=6#6
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1406892/posts?page=7#7
BTW, and just for the sake of argument, what would a superior civilization look like? Would we be warping around the cosmos searching of a better steak?
Not necessarily. :')
Or is it the same answer for both questions??? Or take my pick??? Or none of the above? Or punt maybe? ;^)
:')
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