Re: Annedoti, Anon (Re: A China-Sumer connection)

From: Doug Weller (dweller_at_ramtops.removethisdemon.co.uk)
Date: 03/06/05 

Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 15:40:20 +0000

On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 08:51:12 GMT, in sci.archaeology, Comm wrote:

>
>"Doug Weller" <dweller@ramtops.removethisdemon.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 02:25:22 GMT, in sci.archaeology, Comm wrote:
>>
>> It was easy to find the post: http://tinyurl.com/6p6jj
>>
>> The relevant line is:
>> "I saw something that dated the Indians here (in S. America) back at least
>> to 50 thousand years ago, too."
>
>Hmm, google did not give me that post - I used google. I did not say I'm
>here. I said the Indians here - qualifying that by ( ) (S. America). Not
>that I'm there. Are there Indians anywhere other than N and S America?

It was very very easy to find. Yes, there are Indians in India, but we
know you didn't mean them, so why the 'here'?. And how was anyone to know
that by 'here' you meant 'there'?

>>
>> It does look as though you are writing that you are in South America,
>> although from subsequent posts it appears that by 'here' you mean both
>> continents.
>
>Yes, I do, the ( ) was a qualifier.
>>
>> In the next paragraph, by the way, I notice that you are under the
>> illusion that Europeans thought the earth was flat during historical
>> times. This is a myth, created in the 19th century. There may have been a
>> small handful of educated Europeans who thought this, but only a few.
>
>Oh is it? I recall Galileo, Copernicus, etc.

Eh? Where'd you get that idea? The Church, with a couple of early
exceptions (not St. Augustine, who accepted a spherical earth, for
instance), and the Universities (all Church run medieval times) taught
that the earth was a sphere. Galileo and Copernicus certainly agreed with
this!

Doug

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