I find it curious that so many conflicting reports were used to explain the discovery of fossil remains of extinct and unfamiliar creatures! I sure the bones of giant humans in North America as an example! Why are these finds such a threat to our scholars?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.They aren't a threat to scholars, because no such finds have ever been made. Nineteenth century reports are all fabrications. If such are ever found by science, they would be studied, not hidden. Oddly enough, mastodon skeletons superficially resemble a giant "human" skeleton, and their skulls if viewed from the wrong way superficially ressemble a one eyed "human" skull. It's been conjectured such discoveries by the ancients are the origin of giant/cyclops myths. There's even a case where ancient Greeks carefully interred a skeleton of a mammoth as a "human" burial.
Druvius
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June 21, 2018
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I think that these odd finds might be a threat to the social structure or perception of reality that the particular scholars have. Science (at least the " hard" sciences) is based on the scientific method, a system designed to eliminate preconceived biases as best as it can. But since humans are not eliminated from the process & are the ones using the scientific method, then the tool itself isn't always used the way it was designed to. We know that "giants" exist, we have them today, we don't think of them as "giants," instead we see them as "really tall people." To previous cultures such genetic outliers were thought of differently, maybe even "god-like." I think some areas in science may need a bit of a shake-up in the way they themselves interpret these findings.
Georgy303
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May 30, 2018
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@Theskeptic Thanks.
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