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That the models are way off is nothing new. To put it in a more course term, the figures are pulled out of someone's backside that go into the computer modeling. The only thing I have issue with in those "OMG WE ARE OVERHEATING THE EARTH" arguements is whether humans are causing it or not. Yes...

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I was hoping no one would bring up Creationism. I wanted to say that I'm not a Creationist, I simply question the timelines but I didn't want to see that expanded upon. The Blind Men and the Elephant is my favorite analogy when talking another topic. And it does apply here as well. Good one. :)

Actually, so far as something "interesting" I was thinking more along the lines of shelters or tools. Sure there are the caves and a few rocks that appear to have been formed by humans, but surely someone came up with the idea to stack rocks or something before the current dates for that? Or...

Yeah the 20 million is totally wrong, but you got my point. Still, since it's said that these early humans from 200,000 had the same brain capacity and intelligence as we do today, surely they'd have done something a little more interesting than make a spear, drill a hole in a shell, and paint a...

You are correct in that popular media does take those shortcuts, which for the uneducated masses becomes irrefutable fact. There are many things full of holes that are taught as complete fact. Having just finished an "environmental sciences" class, I nearly drove my professor nuts pointing out...

Yes, most of science teaching is all about telling us something as absolute fact that is in reality a theory.

All good questions but what I read is that the hotter the weather, the darker the skin. This being because melanin, the pigment that darkens it, protects the skin against sun damage. So the colder climates have light skinned people because they didn't need the melanin. We are all, after all, the...