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<p>[QUOTE="Gam3rBlake, post: 7684271, member: 115909"]Well I mean let’s take a look at Occam’s Razor for a moment.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is it more likely that life would spring up from nothing or not?</p><p><br /></p><p>Honestly I think the likelihood of a European having a Norwegian coin at least 400+ years old and then coincidently losing it at the Goddard site is much less likely than our history books being incorrect about pre-Colombian contact.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be like me coincidentally & accidentally losing my Roman denarius of Hadrian in an archaeologically significant site.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now if it was something like a 14th century British coin my opinion would be different since it’s very likely old British coins still circulated when Columbus arrived. But Norwegian? Why would a 16th century British person have an 11th century Norwegian coin 400+ years old?</p><p><br /></p><p>Back in the 19th century historians thought that the legendary city of Troy was a myth like Atlantis.</p><p><br /></p><p>Until amateur archeologist Heinrich Schliemann used clues from the Iliad and started digging and found Troy did exist in what is now Hisarlik, Turkey.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1319624[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh and he found a cool mask!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1319623[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Our knowledge of History is constantly evolving.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gam3rBlake, post: 7684271, member: 115909"]Well I mean let’s take a look at Occam’s Razor for a moment. Is it more likely that life would spring up from nothing or not? Honestly I think the likelihood of a European having a Norwegian coin at least 400+ years old and then coincidently losing it at the Goddard site is much less likely than our history books being incorrect about pre-Colombian contact. It would be like me coincidentally & accidentally losing my Roman denarius of Hadrian in an archaeologically significant site. Now if it was something like a 14th century British coin my opinion would be different since it’s very likely old British coins still circulated when Columbus arrived. But Norwegian? Why would a 16th century British person have an 11th century Norwegian coin 400+ years old? Back in the 19th century historians thought that the legendary city of Troy was a myth like Atlantis. Until amateur archeologist Heinrich Schliemann used clues from the Iliad and started digging and found Troy did exist in what is now Hisarlik, Turkey. [ATTACH=full]1319624[/ATTACH] Oh and he found a cool mask! [ATTACH=full]1319623[/ATTACH] Our knowledge of History is constantly evolving.[/QUOTE]
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