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hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
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hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@ArishMell So how does your brain work? ( assuming it does) How can you trust it to give you real thoughts if it is simply a bunch of chemicals? As Heinlein said "Life is more than just a bunch of atoms bumping into each other" I agree with him.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@ArishMell Give this a listen. In particular Stephan Meyer's explanation of how he became a Christian toward the end. It is a brilliant summation of what an intelligent person could well experience in life. [media=https://youtu.be/3E8Zcfu9ROg]
chibs · 61-69, M
@hippyjoe1955 "a living creature is just to complex an entity to simply evolve from base chemicals"
Why? What's your reasoning behind that claim?
Why? What's your reasoning behind that claim?
smileylovesgaming · 31-35, F
Around 10,000 year's ago when people was using that land bridge we didn't look that much different from each other. Google says we started to change after we settled around the earth
KingofBones1 · 46-50, M
Scratching my head part of my ancestors are Native Americans and oh that's right we're referred to as red people SMH. However before the white people largely came in great numbers Mexicans were still trying to steal it go figure
SomeMichGuy · M
Not true.
Back in the 1600s were there non-Brown people that weren't Europeans?
I guess it depends on your definition of Brown... and weather Russia is considered European.
I guess it depends on your definition of Brown... and weather Russia is considered European.
TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 46-50, MVIP
emigrate or get sold and shipped there?.. 🤔
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout We emigrated roughly 12,000 years ago.
Roundandroundwego · 61-69
Same reason you don't understand why China would have influence in Asia that you don't have, or why you can't be the global hegemon with only 290,000,000 old and sick infertile people, no matter how violent you are!
Most people aren't Western European, but mostly the nation is.
Most people aren't Western European, but mostly the nation is.
They didn't... the Native Indians were there all along until the Europeans killed them off because "They're not civilised, like us".
@ChipmunkErnie No, Samoa, Guam, Midway, Hawaii, Rapanui, etc, the South Americans came from the North through land.
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
@NativePortlander1970 You were there? Or you just quoting the standard line? Even a cursory internet search shows that the Bering land bridge theory is currently considered uncertain, at best...
"Bering Land Bridge
Scientists once theorized that the ancestors of today's Native Americans reached North America by walking across this land bridge and made their way southward by following passages in the ice as they searched for food. New evidence shows that some may have arrived by boat, following ancient coastlines."
"Bering Land Bridge
Scientists once theorized that the ancestors of today's Native Americans reached North America by walking across this land bridge and made their way southward by following passages in the ice as they searched for food. New evidence shows that some may have arrived by boat, following ancient coastlines."
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@ChipmunkErnie I must admit often thinking the land-bridge idea unlikely because although the Bering Strait is shallow (only around 30-50m deep at present) for the sea level to be that low would need the Northern latitudes deep under ice-sheets.
This is Encyclopedia Britannica's take on it:
More accurately, the last Glacial Maximum of the present Ice Age: a time of climatic oscillations with 100 000 -200 000 year periodicity.
The fly in the ointment is that although people and animals probably occupied the tundra fringing the ice, I don't see it as likely they would have ventured onto it. So did they and the wildlife have a comparatively brief window, maybe a few thousand years, in which all the right conditions co-incided?
This is Encyclopedia Britannica's take on it:
During the Ice Age the sea level fell by several hundred feet, making the strait into a land bridge between Asia and North America, over which a considerable migration of plants and animals, as well as humans (about 20,000 to 35,000 years ago), occurred.
More accurately, the last Glacial Maximum of the present Ice Age: a time of climatic oscillations with 100 000 -200 000 year periodicity.
The fly in the ointment is that although people and animals probably occupied the tundra fringing the ice, I don't see it as likely they would have ventured onto it. So did they and the wildlife have a comparatively brief window, maybe a few thousand years, in which all the right conditions co-incided?