The primeval myth
2024-06-13 13:53 I state points in prehistoric times for a good reason.  There is a myth of a vague “primeval time” when everything one knows about lived at the same time.  Then I mean different animals, larger than current ones and more or less strange.
Has the world ever frozen over?
2024-06-05 13:16 There is a hypothesis that the Earth at one or several points would have been entirely covered by ice.  This is called Snowball Earth and is a controversial idea.  All the suggested points have their own problems.
Orders of magnitude matters
2024-03-21 12:39 It is important to keep track of which order of magnitude something has.  Otherwise one’s concepts of nature risk becoming far too erroneous.  Which in turn creates needless fear.
The limits of oral tradition
2024-03-13 13:18 Among pseudohistorians there is an overconfidence in oral traditions.  Detailed knowledge of the past is believed to be passed on for millennia.  To me this appears preposterous.
Ideas not part of evolution theory
2023-11-29 11:11 Creationists think all science contradicting their own ideas belong to the same unified system of thought.  That unified system is imagined as constructed to allow life to change over time.
On scientists and pseudoscientists
2023-09-29 10:14 There are people which wrongfully believe themselves to be scientists.  They neither have formal qualifications nor are seen as equals by people with such.  One does not need to have formal qualifications to contribute to science.
The myth of the predator threat
2023-02-07 13:17 Many people imagine “cavemen” as if they lived mostly from meat.  At the same time, they are supposed to have lived under constant threat from predators.  The combination of these conditions is in fact anachronistic.