As many know, I love a good academic debate. However, I despise when said debate goes into
crazy theories that their only basis is someone that negates evidence because
it does not prove what they are looking for.
Case in point, purposely dismissing archaeological evidence and prizing
others because it does not support your belief that aliens or some superior
race helped build ancient relics and architecture. Yes, there are holes riddling the theories of
much of archaeological dogma, but that does not mean that your hypothesis that there
was a superior race that there is ZERO archaeological evidence of, other than
images in art that do not fit into our views of normal, supporting that there
was such. It is known that there were humanoids
that had larger brains or brain cavities than homo sapiens; however brain size
and brain cavity size is not always equate to more brain power. The size is first relative to the proportion of
the size of the species and second to the structure of the brain. Homo sapiens brains are a bit more compact
than other humanoids, but they structure of the brain allows for more
information to be stored. The folds of
the brain allow this. You could think of
it as the difference between the total surface area of a flat sheet versus a
balled up one. The folds cause the sheet
to become more compact. Since brains,
like other organs, are soft tissue, they are easily lost to time, and rarely
preserved. I do not have the information
to know whether or not the interior of the brain cavity can show us how much or
little the brain was folded; however memory is suggesting there may be a way to
tell, dependent entirely on how the remains decomposed.
I enjoyed my conversation until wild speculations of a superior
humanoid race was brought up with very little evidence presented. If your evidence is solely based on History
Channel and other “educational” channels, you are gravely mistaken. The shows and theories presented tend towards
bias for ratings. My opinions on
archeology and anthropology are based on actual work by actual anthropologists,
a couple I had the privilege of being taught by. To dismiss something I say, based only on
what you saw on Discovery Channel, is not only an insult to me, but to your own
intelligence. I will never claim to know
all there is to know about the subject, but I have to scoff someone, usually in
my mind, when they use such programming as the basis for an argument. However, tonight’s conversation/debate was
one of the most intellectual I’ve been a part of in quite some time.
And it reminds me how desperately I need to be in grad
school. Sadly, my options here in
Germany are very limited. To get into a
German grad school program, fluency in Latin is required, in my
understanding. The few schools that participate
in the education program in Europe for American military personnel and their
families do not have any programs that fit my needs. This puts me in the bind of finding an online
program that is not with one of the many schools that my future university
employer would deem as reputable. I was
told there’s a possibility I could try getting into a British university, but I
reside in Germany and thus would have to move to England and away from my
husband. My biggest fear in the entire
process, though, is that I will be rejected based on my cumulative GPA when I
graduated. There is also the hurdle of
any testing the school would require to get into the program. I am having many issues researching schools
as well. The only way I have found
success in a search is to go to individual schools that I would be willing to
have on a diploma and looking to see what they have available online. This is a cumbersome way to search.
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