We don’t know whether other planets have life on
them and whether the life-forms are like those on
earth - & we don’t not know how the solar system
came into being, although we have built up many
hypotheses about it; we suppose the solar system
started billions of years ago & claim it must be so
We can’t explain mysterious gravitation, we don’t
know how mountains came into existence or how
the continents were formed, though we make up
many hypotheses about all these; we don’t know
where oil came from - but we sell hypotheses to
each other like so much snake oil - we don’t know
Why a thick glacial sheet covered most of Europe
and North America as we believe it did; nor do we
know why the same fauna appear in both the Old
and New World, and we don’t know where the salt
in the sea came from, and mankind believes it has
lived on this planet for millions of years, yet there
Is a recorded history of only a few thousand years -
while questions abound - why did the Bronze Age
precede the Iron Age when iron is widely distributed
over the world and its manufacture is simpler than
the alloy of copper and tin - how were the immense
block structures built on the high mountains of the
Andes - and what caused the legend of the Flood
to appear in all the countries of the world - what
does "antediluvian" mean; where did the idea of
the end of the world originate?
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