Stiry,

Yes, pretty much instantaneous, as in "overnight". Really. Do your reading.

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Dora Hates You

I've done my readin, Bub. The ancient rocks tell the story. The world is always ending. Geologically - your "instantaneous" has never happened. We are a blip on the time scale.

Stirfry,

Again, yes, "instantaneous". You need to expand your horizons and catch up with recent research and discoveries. The Ice Age did not calmly "melt away" over a period of 10,000 years.

Here's a good starting point for you: http://www.canada.com/technolo...ons/3954124/story.html

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Dora Hates You

Edited: 10/03/2020 at 05:26 AM by dingpatch

The point about "civilization" being much, much, older than previously thought is what gets a lot of people upset. "No, it started here, only XX long ago". Nope, much, much, earlier.

Not too long ago we would have been told that the "Clovis" people were, more-or-less, the "first" group to come across the Siberian "land bridge". We are now confirming new evidence that man was in the Americas 10s of thousands of years earlier.

Genetic testing shows that a lot of the tribes in the Amazon have genes that came from the Australian Aborigines and that general area of the Pacific, not from Asia over the land bridge. They could have only gotten there by travel over the sea!

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Dora Hates You

ok, 10s of thousands for years. whatever. doesn't matter. geologically - that's a blip. ask the dinosaurs.

I've searched and can't find the study I was referring to. They extrapolated the timeline from Biblical stories and the result was around 3,000 BC. Google sucks now, it keeps showing me crap it thinks I want to see and not what I am actually looking for.

Is civilization older? It is for sure, the aborigines have stories of giant animals that died out long before "civilization."

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I was right.

yeah yeah, blame it on google who does that? NO ONE . oh , wait. good ole coal... I'll wait ancient rocks have all the info. wind and wave patterns are there. all you have to do is look.