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TheFleebus t1_iw88qn4 wrote

A comment further up said they used Optically Stimulated Luminescence to date the sediment that tuned in to rock. You can read about the dating technique [here](https://www.baylor.edu/geosciences/index.php?id=955929#:~:text=Optically%20stimulated%20luminescence%20(OSL). The rock and the footprint must be the same age as the footprint was made while the sediment was still soft. It was then rapidly covered by more sediment, preserving the impression. Over hundreds of thousands of years, the sediment solidified under the pressure of the overlaying material.

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CNegan t1_iw884y3 wrote

I believe it was between 1939-1942. This claim was also paired with they found Chinese and Japanese officers who were working together to bloodlessly take and retake cities to look good for their commanding officers. The book is the William Donovan Biography by Richard Dunlop.

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It also has the claim in it that Szmul Zygielbojm specifically killed himself because FDR refused to bomb Auschwitz after Szmul gave proof to Arthur Goldberg, who gave it to William Donovan, who showed it to FDR, FDR refused to redirect planes, this gets back to Szmul, and he kills himself in protest. No mention of any of this or even a connection between the people involved on Wikipedia.

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TheFleebus t1_iw87jrx wrote

Scientism isn't a thing. It's a term / idea invented by YEC as a rebuttal to the statement that "faith is not a path to truth". A sort of "I know you are but what am I?". Materialism or Naturalism may be more accurate way of describing people who believe naturalistic evidence as described via scientific methods - even if they personally do not fully understand the methods used.

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kelteshe t1_iw82l74 wrote

Considering the fact that modern human fossils have been found at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, which date back some 360,000 years…. It’s quite possible it was anatomically modern humans. Or at least extremely close.

My bet is that the age of humanity will keep getting older and older the more we discover. And as archeology starts to explore the areas covered by water (but were not covered 12k+ years ago)… our understanding of human history will drastically change to include a lost civilization of modern humans in the last 100k years. A civilization that had the capacity to map the planet, had a understanding of the precessional cycle and the dimensions of the planet. As well as a vast understanding of astronomy and geometry.

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LingQuery t1_iw7zegt wrote

Yep.

Hominoidea (hominoid: those resembling man): All old-world apes

Hominidea (hominid: those akin to man): Great apes

Hominini (hominin: man-like): humans and chimps

Homo (man): humans and our closest cousins

The proposed subtribe homininan (very man-like) would exclude chimpanzees but include australopithecines.

The less-common hominineae (hominine: those very akin to man(?)) would sit just below the hominids and include gorillas, chimps, and folks while excluding orangutans.

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