The problem of Cthulhu

brunians at brunians.org · 21 Jun 2007, 01:39 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:39:43 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (urth) The problem of Cthulhu
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> In a message dated 6/20/2007 9:26:32 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> brunians at brunians.org writes:

> Some  Neanderthal skulls got funny teeth. Supposedly unique to the
> seperate species that didn't interbreed. Except a bunch of Maltese
> people  have teeth like this.

> I wonder if there has been any genetic testing of native Maltese to
> determine whether there is any interesting DNA floating around.

Dunno. The debate is mostly academics swearing at each other and
denigrating each other's evidence, as near as I can tell.

I don't engage too much in the debate. I got my ideas, they're not
currently well-accepted, I believe that they will be pretty soon (though
possibly not within my lifetime).

To me, the question is basically whether Plato, Snorre Sturluson and the
Mahabharata are more or less reliable than a bunch of twentieth and early
twenty-first century theoreticians. That's a no-brainer.

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