Cryptozoology

I think this should be a lesson about trying to infer the existence of things from inanimate objects. Only presence can be inferred, not existence.

I guess what I'm saying is, the existence of Stonehenge would not be sufficient on its own for some alien biologist to infer the existence of the human species. We can infer that humans built it, because we have independant evidence for the existence of humans - i.e. we are them. Stonehenge is sufficient to infer the presence of humans near Salisbury, England, but not the existence of the whole human race in total. Similarly trying to infer the existence of god from what might be termed his "creation" is fallacious. However if we could independantly infer the existence of God through other means - direct observation, for instance - then the presence of God could be inferred from his creation.In short the only reason that we infer Mount Rushmore was carved by humans is because we know independantly that humans exist, and that we carve.[This message has been edited by crashfrog, 10-26-2003]

Funny then, that two things are true:1) People with cameras live all over the Earth, on every continent, and yet nobody has any pictures of dinosaurs.2) Scientists concluded that dinosaurs represented an extinct taxa of organisms before Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species.How could scientists make a conclusion based on "evolutionary ideas" before those ideas had been published? I know that's your signature, and it seems like it's the 3rd time I've quoted this part of the Bible in as many days, but:

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But I say to you ... whoever says, 'You fool!' shall be liable to the hell of fire. - Matthew 5:22

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God sayz: Ease up on the name-calling, or else.