IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THESE TOOLS WERE MADE BY GROUPS OF PEOPLE DISPLACED FROM MORE "SOPHISTICATED" SOCIETY, BY FORCE OR BY CHOICE, FOR SHORTER PERIODS OF TIME BEFORE SETTLING DOWN AND RE-ESTABLISHING THEIR FORMER CULTURAL SKILLS ON THEIR OWN OR WITH ANOTHER "SOPHISTICATED" SOCIETY?
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE FROM NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC IS INTENDED TO ILLUSTRATE HOW PRIMITIVE PEOPLE MADE PRIMITIVE TOOLS FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE THEY "EVOLVED" INTO "SOPHISTICATED" TOOL MAKERS.
THE SCIENTIFIC QUESTION IS, CAN THIS HYPOTHESIS BE PUT TO AN EMPIRICAL SCIENTIFIC TEST ?
THE UNEQUIVOCAL ANSWER IS, YES IT CAN !
THE REAL QUESTION IS, WOULD THE MACRO-EVOLUTIONARY SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY TOLERATE SUCH A TEST TO BE CONDUCTED ?
THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION REMAINS TO BE SEEN.
IN THE TRUE SPIRIT OF THE EMPIRICAL SCIENTIFIC METHOD, WHICH IS TO TRY AND FALSIFY ANY GIVEN THEORY OR HYPOTHESIS THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION AND OBSERVATION, THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF OMNIOLOGY OFFERS THE EMPIRICAL SCIENTIFIC TEST THAT FOLLOWS IN ORDER TO SEPARATE "METAPHYSICAL SCIENCE" FROM "EMPIRICAL SCIENCE."
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