So what's the deal with giants?

6  2015-01-21 by goodboy

28 comments

Great question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2mAuVOqTSw

This is a fantastic "banned" TED talk all about the giants of New England. There's a ton of interesting information about them.

That was awesome man, thanks for sharing. I had no idea there was any sort of evidence that showed that giants were real. No surprise at all that the Smithsonian wants to cover it up.

holy shit, shelburne is a half hour from my home.

Eli Manning is not as good as his brother.

San Francisco has won the World Series three times in the past five years.

There were reports in the US in the 1800s and early 1900s of scientists finding evidence of giant people. This was seen by some as evidence of the truth of the Bible. The Cardiff Giant became a widely known hoax which debunked the idea of giants in many people's minds. Not much evidence of giants was found in the 1900s when technology was better and researchers' attitudes more rigorous.

The Giants suck. Fuck Madison Bumgarner.

Fellow Royals fan.

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Andre the Giant is the OBEY guy. That's all I got.

suppressed. they've been found all over the planet. if we were around when the dinosaurs were, or not long after, we too would likely have been much larger than we are now.

All those supposed finds later turned out to be hoaxes. It was not covered up in the slightest.

Are you paid to shill like you do?

If you're not, you should be.

Despite what you may think, I'm not a shill. I just dislike pseudoarchaeology.

Like evolution? I can't stand such pseudoscience.

Well there's a few reasons evolution is not pseudoscience, the least of which being that we have actual evidence for it. But to clarify this issue, let's look at the definiton of pseudosceince.

  • Pseudoscience is a claim, belief or practice which is falsely presented as scientific, but does not adhere to a valid scientific method, cannot be reliably tested, or otherwise lacks scientific status. Pseudoscience is often characterized by the use of vague, contradictory, exaggerated or unprovable claims, an over-reliance on confirmation rather than rigorous attempts at refutation, a lack of openness to evaluation by other experts, and a general absence of systematic processes to rationally develop theories. A field, practice, or body of knowledge can reasonably be called pseudoscientific when it is presented as consistent with the norms of scientific research, but it demonstrably fails to meet these norms.

So as you can see, evolution does not encounter this issue, as it follows the scientific method, can easily be reliably tested, and so on. However, Ken Hamm falls under pseduoscience for his claims which do many of the things claimed in the definition. Pseudoarchaeology is similar in definition, but not quite.

Universal common descent certainly does. It's a religion presented as science.

Life cannot happen by accident. That's a cruel joke.

Universal common descent certainly does. It's a religion presented as science.

Pretty sure we've been over why it's not. Repeatedly.

Life cannot happen by accident. That's a cruel joke.

Well that's the thing, it seems like it apparently can. Just look at the Miller-Urey experiment.

That's not really the best response. And like I said, thanks to experiments like Miller-Urey, we can actually see the early development of life on earth (note: this has nothing to do with evolution, as evolution and the origin of life are two separate topics)

The video addresses everything we've discussed about evolution, including Miller-Urey (which is laughable at best). It's a long video, but it covers a huge amount of material. If you want to continue to be intellectually dishonest you are free to do so.

It really doesn't. It makes a ton of vague claims and doesn't back anything up. For example, we've re-tested Miller-Urey and found the same results-the creation of amino acids from basic organic chemicals. And how am I the intellectually dishonest one? You've outright ignored things I pointed out that don't agree with you, and you seem convinced that science is entirely wrong, yet give no evidence of this when asked. So no, I think you have it backwards.

I haven't ignored anything you've said. I've debunked it every single time. Give it up already.

Not even close. Your debunkings are terrible (again, no offence). Like I said, you have yet to respond to my point about where the water went, while also accounting for the fact that the original verse clearly indicates the mountains having stayed constant, and the water level reaching that high, among other issues. You also post a lot of youtube video's, and if you wouldn't mind trying to post more documents than videos, I would be appreciative, just because I can usually read them faster than I can watch a video.

I believe they exist, but you have to make up your own mind. Search up "Proof of Giants" or something like that on youtube, watch some videos, and decide for yourself.

even today we have giants, so i don't think it's so far fetched. did they get 9 foot or more, idk, but i wouldn't be surprised, as life is anything but predictable. Pladapus o.o

Huh?

shut it down!