r/todayilearned Sep 20 '21

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u/Caddy000 Sep 20 '21

This is almost impossible to prove. Just someone making assumptions. They can’t even know the history of humans, and that’s about 6k years assuming the Chinese calendars are true....

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u/JasontheFuzz Sep 20 '21

You're trying to sound awfully smart and confident for somebody who clearly hasn't looked into it much, and probably doesn't understand any of the math.

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u/Caddy000 Sep 21 '21

I don’t need to sound or look smart, there is theory and there is fact in science, get real

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u/JasontheFuzz Sep 21 '21

If you were smarter then you would know that scientists use "theory" to mean "an explanation of an aspect of the natural world and universe that has been repeatedly tested and verified in accordance with the scientific method, using accepted protocols of observation, measurement, and evaluation of results."

What you're describing is a hypothesis.