It's especially frustrating when archaeologists and anthropologists do it; I've seen so many articles along the lines of 'which came first, religion, agriculture or art?'. It's frustrating as anything, because the answer is so obviously 'they all evolved together: people are people'. How anyone can even suggest that we wouldn't have art without religion, or vice versa, boggles my mind.
And don't get me started on aliens building the pyramids. If anything, we're going backwards in that regard. Tell a modern engineer to build something of that size, to last that long, with no cementing agent and he'll look at you like you're insane.
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Date: 2010-11-09 08:59 pm (UTC)It's especially frustrating when archaeologists and anthropologists do it; I've seen so many articles along the lines of 'which came first, religion, agriculture or art?'. It's frustrating as anything, because the answer is so obviously 'they all evolved together: people are people'. How anyone can even suggest that we wouldn't have art without religion, or vice versa, boggles my mind.
And don't get me started on aliens building the pyramids. If anything, we're going backwards in that regard. Tell a modern engineer to build something of that size, to last that long, with no cementing agent and he'll look at you like you're insane.