[ExI] IQ and beauty

[John Clark]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015  Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Just a quick question and observation for the moment:
> How does one actually _know_ how a given species went extinct?
>

​You can't be (or at least you shouldn't be) absolutely certain about
anything that happened in the past; maybe the universe didn't start 13.8
billion years ago or even 6000 years ago but was created 6000 seconds ago
complete with dinosaur bones in the ground and memories of you when you
were 9. However you can make theories about the past and some theories are
more plausible than others. The theory that the Irish Elk's gargantuan
antlers played no part in its extinction is not plausible.

 John K Clark   ​
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