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Oh yeah, and although I long ago broke 1,000 posts, because I deleted about two years of my life from here I recently re-reached that mark.

So congratulations to me.

Count them, they were few in number

  I've been thinking about Dinosaurs and the lack of knowledge we really have about them. So few in number are their remains - we assume, only a handful have been found the world over so far? And while we haven't excavated every square inch of the planet, the possibility that they were few in number, and quite possibly nothing at all like scientists imagine sticks out in my mind. It's not as though we have real empirical evidence of -what- kind of world they lived in at all. We have scattered remains that aren't indicative at all of the whole reality they experienced.

So, what if they were, say, intelligent beings? What if they were like Gods? And we trust our carbon dating system to appropriately identify relative age of a given thing, however how is it that we comprehend the algorithm perfectly? How do we know the identifiers of a carbon profile from twenty thousand years ago, considering it is only recently we began even using such technology? Certainly, even if we understood how much change occurs in a carbon life form with a verifiable death date between its death and the current day, we do not know if such a pattern holds true, or how much it changes over thousands or millions of years. This is not information we have access to, and more importantly it must be assumed that the amount of change could vary based on the factors innumerable involved with the change of our very specimen and whatever aspect of it are identified by carbon dating, over many years.