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Were Stone Age Britons Trigonometry Experts?
ICR News ^ | September 21, 2009 | Brian Thomas, M.S.

Posted on 09/21/2009 8:30:56 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts

Man-made geographical high points in southern England and Wales have been observed for centuries, including earthworks, stone monuments like Stonehenge, and hill camps. But something quite unexpected about their distribution may have been verified...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: belongsinreligion; catholic; christian; creation; evangelical; evolution; intelligentdesign; judaism; lutheran; notasciencetopic; propellerbeanie; protestant; science
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1 posted on 09/21/2009 8:30:56 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

Let’s not go off on a tangent.


2 posted on 09/21/2009 8:32:06 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: metmom; DaveLoneRanger; editor-surveyor; betty boop; Alamo-Girl; MrB; GourmetDan; Fichori; ...

Ping!


3 posted on 09/21/2009 8:33:26 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: stephenjohnbanker

:o)


4 posted on 09/21/2009 8:33:42 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: stephenjohnbanker

But, it’s at least a positive sine!


5 posted on 09/21/2009 8:35:33 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves)
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To: GodGunsGuts
Sine, sine, everywhere a sine!

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

6 posted on 09/21/2009 8:36:30 AM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: SpinnerWebb; stephenjohnbanker
"Were Stone Age Britons Trigonometry Experts?"

I'm going to have to see a lot of proof...;-)

7 posted on 09/21/2009 8:39:19 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: GodGunsGuts

I don’t mean to be obtuse but it just doesn’t add up.


8 posted on 09/21/2009 8:39:19 AM PDT by AussieJoe
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To: stephenjohnbanker

You are BAD, very bad!


9 posted on 09/21/2009 8:39:25 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: GodGunsGuts

It’s a sine of the times.


10 posted on 09/21/2009 8:39:25 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: SpinnerWebb

Can you hold on for a secant?


11 posted on 09/21/2009 8:39:34 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: GodGunsGuts

They evolved to be that way.


12 posted on 09/21/2009 8:40:12 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: GodGunsGuts
Man has this inborn tendency to put things in order. Out of that order, he derived mathematics.

Then he set about to put the universe and everything in it into a mathematical format.

Then he got arrogant, and began predicting things like "global warming"...

13 posted on 09/21/2009 8:40:39 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: stephenjohnbanker
With a name like stephenjohnbanker I'd have thought you'd make some remark about cosiners.
14 posted on 09/21/2009 8:41:30 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: GodGunsGuts
When the article was posted on September 14, no caveman was pictured, just the mapping and monument images. On September 15, however, the caveman appeared, as if to reinforce the evolutionary story, and a new title and URL were assigned to the article.

Mystery hackers from outer space......

15 posted on 09/21/2009 8:41:59 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Yeah, I’ve got a minute or two...


16 posted on 09/21/2009 8:43:55 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves)
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To: GodGunsGuts

This has been known for years. The animal skin sails that they made were always perfect 30-60-90 triangles. They knew to make the bottom edge 1/2 the hypotenuse.

This is the origin of the term “fur sail sine”.


17 posted on 09/21/2009 8:44:19 AM PDT by OSHA (I want to meet the man that put the cat IN the bag.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

It’s interesting how surprised some people are about how advanced *primitive* peoples were. There’s this mindset that just because they weren’t as technologically advanced as we are, or perhaps attributed supernatural causes to things that they had no way of knowing otherwise, that they were stupid.

*Primitive* does not equal *stupid*.

If they were that stupid, they wouldn’t have made the gains in knowledge and technology that they did. When one considers the level of knowledge that they were starting from, that they had to figure out what we take for granted, it’s rather amazing the things they were able to accomplish.

While they may have been primitive technology wise, I don’t think that we see that kind of brilliance much more these days.


18 posted on 09/21/2009 8:46:04 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: r9etb

“With a name like stephenjohnbanker I’d have thought you’d make some remark about cosiners. “

I will Log this, thank you!


19 posted on 09/21/2009 8:46:13 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

What’s the Square Root of SPAM?


20 posted on 09/21/2009 8:47:03 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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