Date: 3/23/2001 12:40:00 PM
From Authorid: 30051
I think...well who knows we wont know untill we die...CoRyAnN  |
Date: 3/23/2001 12:47:00 PM
From Authorid: 25828
I did a post on a 2.8 BILLION year old grooved orb found...so we're even older than 500 million and the tribolites...great post...
here is the link to that actual picture..
http://paranormal.about.com/science/paranormal/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eprf.tzo.com%2Fhtml%2F500_mil_old_print.html
~heather  |
Date: 3/23/2001 12:53:00 PM
From Authorid: 9295
Ahhhh...I love reading about things like this. Good post.  |
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Date: 3/23/2001 1:01:00 PM
From Authorid: 30901
heres a thought, how do we know that it wasn't God himself. we were made in his image and he did visit the Garden of Eden. *lunytoon* |
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Date: 3/23/2001 1:08:00 PM
It was a couple of years since I took Anthropology but I think the oldest hominids were like 4.3 million and the first use of tools 1.7 million years ago. I can't believe 300 million cuz I think that's before any early primates. I'm sure we're gonna have people post saying the world is only 7,000 years old but let them come. |
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Date: 3/23/2001 1:09:00 PM
oh yeah maybe aliens |
Date: 3/23/2001 1:45:00 PM
From Authorid: 28989
Maybe the footprint was that of a time traveler from a thousand years in our future, and he crushed the very tribolite that would have evolved into a species that would have destroyed the human species. We owe him a big thanks. Canoe  |
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Date: 3/23/2001 1:47:00 PM
From Authorid: 28989
Sorry, I meant trilobite. Canoe |
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Date: 3/23/2001 2:20:00 PM
We're gonna destroy ourselves before we discover the ability to time travel. |
Date: 3/23/2001 3:05:00 PM
From Authorid: 3508
WOAH! that must have been cool. i think it was when humans didn't develop toes  |
Date: 3/23/2001 3:12:00 PM
From Authorid: 5940
I like this post, and wonder the same thing. Some scholars of religion think that the earth has only existed no more than 6 or 7 thousand years. Others think that it's in the millions. I am curious about the scientific viewpoint. Now, I don't know much about science, but I am curious as to how they can determine the age of whatever artifact discovered. And how accurate are they when they determine the age? Just curious.  |
Date: 3/23/2001 3:30:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 29561
The process used is called radiomertic dateing. In radiometric dating, scientists measure the amounts of different isotopes of certain elements in a rock sample. Since radioactive isotopes are known to decay at a certain constant rate, the amounts remaining in the rock will tell how old it is. For igneous rocks this is the time when it solidified from molten magma.
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Date: 3/23/2001 6:41:00 PM
From Authorid: 24813
I'm pretty sure human history as we know it has to be rewritten regardless. I think it's pretty ignorant to believe we're the only group to ever advance into a complex society (but it says so in my history book! It has to be true! Right? ....ummm, no). I don't know about humans in the cambrian period, buy hey who knows? But I am sure there were other (now forgotten) civilizations around before ours. I believe we were placed here (and now) by other intelligent life (maybe even other humans?). But maybe this other "people" has the ability to place us in any time as well, so the race would continue despite any cataclysmic events that might occur in a given time. We wouldn't know about the others, but they would all be going on simultaneously (assuming non-linear time, and, heck, a whole lot of things for that matter). So to have a legitimate "footprint" from back then could be proof of a lot more than just the fact that humans might have been around then.  |
Date: 10/8/2005 8:17:00 PM
From Authorid: 7574
That's really interesting   |
