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Author Topic:   Evolution. We Have The Fossils. We Win.
Dr Adequate
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Message 391 of 2887 (775965)
01-07-2016 10:01 AM
Reply to: Message 389 by Big_Al35
01-07-2016 4:12 AM


Thanks guys ... I think I did miss something of the list.
Yes. There's the bit where we proved you were wrong.
The pointy skulls are not evidence of giants, because they go with normal-sized skeletons.
People moving big rocks is not evidence of giants, because people have moved even bigger rocks without giants.
If there's nothing else you'd like to present as evidence, we're done here. Thanks for playing, you didn't win anything but you have our best wishes and our fervent hope that one day you'll make a full recovery.

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Blue Jay
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Message 392 of 2887 (775997)
01-07-2016 2:27 PM
Reply to: Message 390 by Tangle
01-07-2016 6:00 AM


Hi, Tangle.
Tangle writes:
It would be great for both science and religion to find good evidence for giants. Science has nothing against giants except it hasn't found them. If and when it does, they'll be part of our Paleontological history, put in all the books and the finder will be world famous.
So let's see it.
Boom. Giant. Robert Wadlow: the tallest man in recorded history, at almost 9 ft tall. Of course, he couldn't lift or move giant boulders either, on account of joint problems caused by the mechanical stresses of his enormous size, so I doubt he would have been much use to the Russians, the ancient Egyptians or the builders of Sacsayhuaman.
Still... giant.

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Message 393 of 2887 (776008)
01-07-2016 3:12 PM
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01-07-2016 2:27 PM


I guess that means we need to find more than one skeleton and define giant.
Science is really fucking picky, picky picky.

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Message 394 of 2887 (776012)
01-07-2016 3:18 PM
Reply to: Message 389 by Big_Al35
01-07-2016 4:12 AM


Big_Al35 writes:
Thanks guys ... I think I did miss something of the list. So at number 8 we have;
Once the victim has volunteered, proposed or offered you can then go on the offensive with
1) It doesn't exist
2) It's fake
3) Nit pick the minutiae of their posts and attempt to tear it apart.
4) I don't know what you're talking about
5) You are a buffoon or stark raving mad.
6) Launch personal attacks.
7) Turn the whole debate into a debacle using comedy, innuendo, false flags and strawman tactics.
8) In all your dealings with the victim behave like a robot. Show no emotion and abide by your programming, that is to say, 'the computer says NO'.
I don't know but maybe this would be 9) Ask questions like:
A) Where can we find documented fossils of rock moving giants; in museums, university collections, Smithsonian, private collections, etc.?
B) Have any papers about giant human fossils been published in magazines or journals? Are there any books about them?
C) How did you find out about the giants?
D) Is there evidence in the human genome that humans and giants interbred? Could modern day giants be hiding in plain sight?
E) Are the Globalists really Giants? (That would explain why Globalists are suppressing all news about Giants.)
Edited by Tanypteryx, : added a question

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If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy

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Message 395 of 2887 (776021)
01-07-2016 4:10 PM
Reply to: Message 393 by Tangle
01-07-2016 3:12 PM


Hi Tangle.
This sort of 'giant' isn't unprecedented: more than a dozen cases of people over 8 ft (244 cm) tall are known (here is a list of them).
Here is a verified 8-foot-tall skeleton from late 16th-century Germany. Not exactly a 'fossil,' but it's from a time period that most Americans don't know much about, so it might as well be a fossil, as far as they're concerned.
And, here is an example of a giant who married another giant, and gave birth to a (stillborn) giant baby. So, maybe gigantism can be hereditary, and there is a hypothetically viable evolutionary pathway for the emergence of giant humans.
So, the idea that there could have been a tribe of 8-foot giants in the past isn't completely unreasonable. What exactly that would prove with regards to evolution-denial is unclear, however.
And, of course, the idea that there were people big enough to carry the stones of Sacsayhuaman in their arms is unreasonable.

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Message 396 of 2887 (776025)
01-07-2016 5:52 PM
Reply to: Message 395 by Blue Jay
01-07-2016 4:10 PM


Oh sure there are tall people like there are small people. But we know the standard deviation from the norm of H. sapiens and the outliers. I think most people when speaking of giants really require something beyond the extremes of what we already know and require that to be a norm within this new species.

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"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
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Message 397 of 2887 (776074)
01-08-2016 10:05 AM


Image of Giant Human Skeleton Excavation
I can't find the message now, but wasn't an image of the excavation of a giant human skeleton part of Al's evidence for giant humans? This isn't the image that was presented, but it's the same general idea:
Or am I misremembering?
--Percy

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Message 398 of 2887 (776079)
01-08-2016 10:54 AM
Reply to: Message 396 by Tangle
01-07-2016 5:52 PM


Hi, Tangle.
Tangle writes:
Oh sure there are tall people like there are small people. But we know the standard deviation from the norm of H. sapiens and the outliers. I think most people when speaking of giants really require something beyond the extremes of what we already know and require that to be a norm within this new species.
Wadlow is at least 10-12 standard deviations from the mean. That's a pretty unheard-of outlier.
My reason for bringing this up was to make sure we're all aware of the extent of the real evidence for giants, so you wouldn't get caught in a situation where it looks like you're backpedaling or changing the goalposts.
My point is that it isn't completely inconceivable that some type of 'giant' existed at one time in the Earth. The biblical giants, like Goliath and Og, where usually described as fitting within the 9-12-foot range, which, while beyond anything we've ever observed, are not beyond the reach of honest mistake or 'fish story' exaggeration. The worth1000 and other such internet-meme giant photos are clearly stupid.
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To Percy:
Percy writes:
I can't find the message now, but wasn't an image of the excavation of a giant human skeleton part of Al's evidence for giant humans?
Big Al mentioned the internet photos in Message 275. I was trying to think a bit broader than just Big Al's claim though.

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Message 399 of 2887 (776080)
01-08-2016 11:12 AM
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01-08-2016 10:05 AM


Re: Image of Giant Human Skeleton Excavation
I posted this as a pretty obvious hoax. I don't think Al has posted any such images.
Claim: The skeleton of a giant human was uncovered during gas exploration in Saudi Arabia.

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Message 400 of 2887 (776106)
01-08-2016 5:35 PM
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01-08-2016 10:05 AM


Re: Image of Giant Human Skeleton Excavation
Already addressed by JonF
Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

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Message 401 of 2887 (776130)
01-09-2016 5:00 AM
Reply to: Message 398 by Blue Jay
01-08-2016 10:54 AM


BJ writes:
Wadlow is at least 10-12 standard deviations from the mean. That's a pretty unheard-of outlier.
Sure but we know the mean and SD of 'normal' populations of humans in different environments. So we know the mean for H.sapiens is 1.75m (or whatever) and that 95% of skeletons will be +/- 10cm (or whatever) of that. We also know the furthest outliers so far found.
If we found a skeleton 1cm larger than the largest we've ever seen we would not conclude that this was a different species or even a different race. If we found loads of them though, we might because it's no longer probable that it's just an extreme outlier.
But if we found a single skeleton 4m tall, we'd probably call that a proper giant and maybe a different species
My point is that it isn't completely inconceivable that some type of 'giant' existed at one time in the Earth.
Sure. Just like some types of very small people have.
The biblical giants, like Goliath and Og, where usually described as fitting within the 9-12-foot range, which, while beyond anything we've ever observed, are not beyond the reach of honest mistake or 'fish story' exaggeration. The worth1000 and other such internet-meme giant photos are clearly stupid.
A race of 9ft foot plus people or even a new species would be a fabulous find - but because 9ft is known to occur as an extreem abnormality in 'normal' life, it would require a lot of skeletons to make us believe they were the norm. Finding a single 15ft skeleton would be another thing entirely.

Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien.
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.

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Message 402 of 2887 (776137)
01-09-2016 9:43 AM
Reply to: Message 401 by Tangle
01-09-2016 5:00 AM


not just the bones
It's not just the bones; there are other indicators that may even be more common and more lasting than bones.
If we found an ancient city where all the doorways were over 12 feet high and over 6 feet wide and all the furniture was sized for giants and remnants of clothes and armor were similarly sized and structures built to support 500-800 pound people and tools and weapons too big for today's humans to use, and all other features also supporting big ass people then it might be reasonable to think big ass people lived there.
But we don't find such evidence. In fact what we do find seems to indicate that the norm has been around pretty much what we see today.
Edited by jar, : applin redunce stuff

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Message 403 of 2887 (776143)
01-09-2016 10:59 AM
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01-09-2016 9:43 AM


Re: not just the bones
Yup. Also, these big guys would be a pretty formidable competitor - all things being equal. If they had actually existed, at the very least we'd find stacks of evidence for them because they'd likely be pretty numerous.
But, of course, if the globalists are suppressing all this, we'd never know.

Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien.
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.

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Message 404 of 2887 (776165)
01-09-2016 5:08 PM
Reply to: Message 398 by Blue Jay
01-08-2016 10:54 AM


Blue Jay writes:
The worth1000 and other such internet-meme giant photos are clearly stupid.
Well if you were a globalist, what would be the best way to supress genuine photos of giants? A creative competition such as the worth1000 encouraging outrageous images and fakery. These fake images can then be circulated and promoted. Soon they will be as numerous as the genuine shots and nobody except the experts will be able to distinguish between them. Anyone with a genuine shot can then be silenced or brow beaten and the 'so called authorities' can claim it was fake all along like all the rest. Yet another globalist strategy.
Edited by Big_Al35, : No reason given.

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Message 405 of 2887 (776167)
01-09-2016 5:23 PM
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01-09-2016 5:08 PM


Al, do you actually have any evidence that there is such a thing as a globalist?

Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

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