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Originally Posted by Dusty
Scientists find weird crap constantly that disproves theories.
They had a show on HI the other day where they found some monolithic circular buildings in Turkey buried in the sand for maybe 15000 years. Perfect joints, huge blocks of rock-that civilizationt had to be around for a long time before that discovery, by way of extrapolation, just to figure out how to do it.
They found a map that belonged to an admiral Piri Reis of the Antartic coastline from the Middle Ages, too-so-I'm saying there's no telling how long some type of homo sapiens has been around.
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Your post piqued my curiosity about the Piri Re'is map (already knew about it in passing, but never pursued it in any depth).
It led to some other interesting finds.
Many in science, geologists in particular, defend "the clock" with religious zeal.
They don't tell you that the "principles" of Uniformitarianism and Superposition are actually just assumptions which often run contrary to evidence.
Picked up a book last week (
Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings) which is the source of much of the research on the Piri Re'is map.
The author (Hapgood) had also written a previous book,
Earth's Shifting Crust.
Plate tectonics were a relatively new idea when these books were written, and tried to explain the evidence of scattered fossils and odd climate records.
Hapgood's research indicated either continents which moved more rapidly than allowed by plate tectonics theory, a rapid change in the position of the equator, or both.
It is important to note that the spin axis of the Earth, in space, would not change; the sphere would reorient itself while the spin axis maintains orientation is space.
Drastically changing the spin axisrelative to space is contrary to conservation of momentum.
An adequate explanation for the (rapid) mechanism was lacking when his books were written, and plate tectonics did not offend "the clock".
Some continued the logical progression of Hapgood's work, but these theories have been discounted in faver of plate tectonics theory (in spite of the abundance of problems associated with plate tectonics).
The highly accurate ancient mapping of an ice-free Antarctica does not mesh with an ice cap which is supposed to be over 1 million years old.
Cores from the Ross Sea floor also bring the ice cap's age into question.
Hapgood's findings and the Ross Sea cores proved inconvenient to "the clock" and were thrown down the memory hole.
When they resurfaced, there were some attempts at refutation.
The rapid displacement theory and logical extensions of this idea have been continually poo-pooed, discouraging further investigation.
There was a prominent scientist of Hapgood's time who thought it warranted "serious attention".
Some of the Foreword (from
Earth's Shifting Crust) written by that scientist:
"...The author has not confined himself to a simple presentation of this idea. He has also set forth, cautiously and comprehensively, the extraordinarily rich material that supports his displacement theory. I think that this rather astonishing, even fascinating, idea deserves the serious attention of anyone who concerns himself with the theory of the earth's development."
-Dr. Albert Einstein
Another interesting bit thrown down the memory hole...
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