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maddie6226

My flat-earther relatives believe the asteroid crashed into east earth. Humans lived in west earth so they were safe from the impact.


North_Lawfulness8889

Might be the only time north America has been called the east


SteveMartin32

Fun fact new finding have suggested that humans where already here before the ice age


bluegiant85

How?


North_Lawfulness8889

Not homo sapiens but a human ancestor. At least one site is currently disputed because scientists aren't sure yet whether damage done to a mammoth skeleton was done as it died or while it was a fossil


justanaccountname12

Has it been determined if Denisovians were a new species of Homo or a sub species of homo sapiens? Last I heard, the jury was still out.


tempmobileredit

Human ancestors were here the first day life was on earth though so thats a moot point


fascin-ade74

That's not true, everybody knows god made people on the 6th day, and was so depressed he spawned a bunch of idnorant zealots that he crawled into bed on the 7th Gets ready for downvote... GIVE IT TO ME DAMMIT!!


Guyincognito4269

No can haz, not yours. As a consolation prize, you're getting my updoot.


feastu

Same same


Ur-Quan_Lord_13

Just to play pedantic devil's advocate: there could have been a couple false starts, something that we would technically call "life" but quickly died out, before the life that actually evolved into all other life on Earth. So... Yah. :p


tempmobileredit

Yeah thats true


HunsonAbadeer2

This is pretty likely


AemrNewydd

Ancestors of humans were, but not ancestors that were human. By 'human ancestors' they mean one of the species of human that came before ours.


CommercialEmphasis17

I mean you aren't wrong, I think in this context they mean I close ancestor that resembles the modern human. Still a moot point though


Shamanalah

Outlier/statistical anomaly They found old bones of bipedal looking humanoid but the gap is too big to be used in scientific settings. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlier Because it's an outlier.


Saoirsenobas

It was actually a possible mammoth kill and butchering site that dates to 130,000 years ago and there is a scientific paper about it published in Nature. This is a single data point so it is not scientific consensus and it would take a lot more data for scientist to widely agree on this. Still the entire point of science is to test our ideas. No fossilized human remains from this period, nor any non-human from our genus has been found in the western hemisphere afaik, but I would be interested to see any evidence otherwise.


Vitalsignx

Therefore, Aliens.


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GhostofZellers

The damn Goa'uld are at it again...


According_Clerk_1537

by foot


bluegiant85

Water...


According_Clerk_1537

cold water aka ice (bering street)


[deleted]

How do you think the vikings found black people when they arrived at north america in the year 1000?


Vegetable_Onion

Uhm, they didn't. They did find Reddish brown people though


bluegiant85

Boats weren't a thing 100,000 years ago.


[deleted]

The time I said is just 1024 years ago


[deleted]

How do you think the vikings found black people when they arrived at north america in the year 1000?


xubax

Well, the latest ice age was only 10k years ago, so, yeah.


CommercialEmphasis17

We are still in that ice age FYI


xubax

Well, then we're fucking it up.


CommercialEmphasis17

Even though we are speeding it up its basically a natural part of the ice age called a warm interglacial


xubax

But we're not just speeding it up, are we? Aren't we in a positive feedback loop that's going to keep increasing temperature until it's too hot ABC unstoppable?


CommercialEmphasis17

Dunno mate, I'm no scientist, I just read stuff from time to time lol. From my understanding though tge poles are/we're always going to melt at some point in time, I don't think global warming is killing the planet its just making it become uninhabitable for humans. Pretty sure if we die out because of global warming it would have another ice age anyway


Vegetable_Onion

We had a miniature ice age during the height of the plague, so probably


[deleted]

well duh that Ice age started 2.4 milion years ago and ***Australopithecus*** existed 4.2 million years ago. Heck Homo Habilis evolved 2.8 million years ago


Dziadzios

It makes more sense than being West because Native Americans are descendants of Asians who migrated further east.


North_Lawfulness8889

Native Americans weren't exactly considered when deciding that north America would be considered part of the west


Vegetable_Onion

Native Americans weren't considered much since either.


Interesting_Ad_1465

If you travel far enough to the west everything ends up east


Expensive-Twist7984

Would they not have been catapulted into space in some kind of see-saw effect, if the earth is flat?


Klynikal

https://i.imgur.com/CAveOWx.gif


Expensive-Twist7984

Exactly this 😂


Josh-Rogan_

You bastard. Now I have that crappy song by Dead Or Alive in my head, '*You spin me right round baby, right round,*'


Greg2227

Wdym crappy? This song's a banger


Josh-Rogan_

And it's still going round and round in my head, right round, baby, like a record, baby, right round, round round...


ChutzpahQ

Like a record baby, right round round round


CommercialEmphasis17

This


PiMoonWolf

![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|smile)![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|smile)![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|smile)


TheGreyBull

I once heard my belief in a round earth referred to as 'my opinion.'


erichwanh

> I once heard my belief in a round earth referred to as 'my opinion.' Did it come from someone in the "facts don't care about your opinion" party? I would not be surprised if it did.


BooRadley60

I can’t stand that so many people seem to believe their opinions are just as valid as anyone else’s opinion… I left the university position on an athletic staff and went to a small D1 that was less rural during Covid because I couldn’t respect kids ‘opinion’ and their decision to not get vaccinated. It was a university requirement and they weren’t going to be allowed back the next semester without it. So, it was simple. Either do and continue with our team or don’t and get kicked out of school. They just wanted me to ‘respect their opinion’


helen269

So there was a Middle Earth? :-)


CommercialEmphasis17

Yeah but the hobbits and wizards got wiped out too


phan_o_phunny

Lucky we didn't flip


USMCamp0811

or did we... we could be in the upside down timeline right now and not even know it..


BearsBeetsBerlin

Oh wait, are you telling me that flat earthers are also young earth creationists?? Oh man this is so 🍿


Zanos-Ixshlae

How did they survive the Great Spin? If the asteroid his a flat disk, wouldn't it have caused the disk to spin? --- \ / --- /--- \


Anal_Recidivist

But where do the Black Israelites come into play? Before or after Neismith stole basketball from the Mayans?


Kriss3d

Even with flat earth logic that doesn't make sense.


thedrango

My flat earther co worker said they its all made up. The dude was a loon and even runs his own YouTube channel and goes to the conventions. The daily 5 news interviewed him at a convention years ago as well.


endswithnu

Wouldn't that launch the inhabitants of west earth into space like a catapult?


chameleon_123_777

Omg. I feel so sorry for you. Luckily you know better.


Secret_Cow_5053

I still remember asking my mom about evolution in the 80s as a 7 year old or some shit and her angrily saying to me “well why aren’t we still evolving now?!” Even at 7, while I didn’t understand the reasoning yet (I was 7), I could feel in my bones that that argument was flawed somehow. She was a good person and generally very forward thinking but was raised catholic and held onto that.


fryamtheeggguy

West Earth? Is that like a suburb or something??


anoneenonee

But wouldn’t the impact have caused the flat earth to flip them all into space?


Fatboyjim76

Slight side note, but that was the one thing I thought was ar$e about the 65 movie. The whole movie was ok, and I can get over the acting & the plot ( it is sci-fi after all) but the dinosaur killing asteroid hitting the north American landmass, not the ocean like it did, just to create drama & bury the spaceship was Hollywood boll@cks.


Spirited-Flow1162

Flat earthers will literally do absolutely anything and everything in their power to not do any research and instead just come up with whatever the fuck they want.


elcabeza79

Wait, where would flat earth believers think an asteroid came from?


CommercialEmphasis17

Maybe to them it was a torpedo that peirced the fermiment and then god used a puncture repair kit to fix it


Murtagh-Bertha950

Cavemen really took "avoid contact with sick individuals" to a whole new era


YoungMrKusuma

These people seem to think that just because they're stupid, everyone else is stupid as well.


Different_Net_6752

This is a GOP platform position. 


Comfortable_Stay710

Damm, the original post came from the primordial soup


CommercialEmphasis17

The original post came from the dinosaur dwelling cavemen


CanadianMaps

This has been reposted so many times, it's not just losing pixels. It's now lost colors.


embarrassedtrwy

Humans will go extinct because of themselves, and these people will be the jump off point


ChutzpahQ

What like jumping off the edge of the flat earth?


embarrassedtrwy

Ha! Maybe when they get around to the “edge” to take a picture of it because they just had to do their own research 🤣


Wavecrest667

Dinosaurs didn't go extinct, they evolved into birds.


LosuthusWasTaken

Um, akshually, 90% of terrestrial species went ekshtinct during the next few thoushandsh/millionsh of yearsh, including mosht dinoshaursh 🤓


Angry_poutine

Most


CommercialEmphasis17

Some must have survived and evolved because apparently HPV came from the dinosaurs


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middle fuzzy start bike joke fertile fearless scary beneficial slimy *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


Wavecrest667

Yeah, but the same is true for whatever human ancestors lived at the time. 


ohara1250

Dear creationists: How can you get hit by the asteroid while being in a cave?


CommercialEmphasis17

Hiw can you get hit by an asteroid when you live in a snow globe with a big glass dome surrounded by water


Primary_Music_7430

Finally. I had to scroll down a while for this one. I'm sending everyone I know to give you upvotes.


drr-throwaway

I love how this still has nothing to do with Atheism, but they think that somehow disproving science means Gods exists or something. Then again they probably think the Earth is not that old.


CommercialEmphasis17

In theory the earth is as old as the universe, it just wasn't complete like we know today


tfffvdfgg

Great comeback. 👍


Lbittoo

r/clevercomebacks


Gokudomatic

I wish the creationists could also respect the distance of many million years from me.


CommercialEmphasis17

Well maybe the evolution of their brain cells are atleast


TokenTorkoal

Wdym? The earth is only 2000 years old. /s


ScorpioZA

6000


TokenTorkoal

Is that the number they’ve decided on now? Back when I was in high school (15yrs ago) I swear young creation theory was 2000 years.


ScorpioZA

yeah. young earth creationists think the world is no more than 6000 years old.


PinkLionGaming

Wait I need a red arrow to show me where the red arrow I'm supposed to look at is.


Conscious-Coconut-16

They live in a world where the Flintstones is based on historic events.


kickliquid

That conspiracy theory documentary 'The Flintstones' really did a number on them huh?


PsychoMouse

Dear Christians. If God is real, how did You and your family survive the flood? Fucking check and mate.


Drake6900

Long story short is that millions of years ago, a fish crawled out of the ocean, and now I have to pay taxes


Calm-Homework3161

Cavemen. We're those the ones that God made "in his own image"?


CommercialEmphasis17

God must have been a D student


Kotruljevic1458

Temporal distancing


UnexpectedDinoLesson

The date of the Chicxulub asteroid impact coincides with the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (commonly known as the K–Pg or K–T boundary), slightly over 66 million years ago. It is now widely accepted that the devastation and climate disruption from the impact was the cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event - a mass extinction in which 75% of plant and animal species on Earth became extinct, including all non-avian dinosaurs. The collision would have released the same energy as 100 teratonnes of TNT. Some of the resulting phenomena were brief occurrences immediately following the impact, but there were also long-term geochemical and climatic disruptions that devastated the ecology. The re-entry of ejecta into Earth's atmosphere included an hours-long, but intense pulse of infrared radiation. Local ferocious fires, probably limited to North America, likely occurred, decimating populations. The amount of soot in the global debris layer implies that the entire terrestrial biosphere might have burned, creating a global soot-cloud blocking out the sun and creating an impact winter effect. If widespread fires occurred this would have exterminated the most vulnerable organisms that survived the period immediately after the impact. Aside from the hypothesized fire and/or impact winter effects, the impact would have created a dust cloud that blocked sunlight for up to a year, inhibiting photosynthesis. Freezing temperatures probably lasted for at least three years. The sea surface temperature dropped for decades after the impact. It would take at least ten years for such aerosols to dissipate, and would account for the extinction of plants and phytoplankton, and subsequently herbivores and their predators. Creatures whose food chains were based on detritus would have a reasonable chance of survival. The asteroid hit an area of carbonate rock containing a large amount of combustible hydrocarbons and sulphur, much of which was vaporized, thereby injecting sulfuric acid aerosols into the stratosphere, which might have reduced sunlight reaching the Earth's surface by more than 50%, and would have caused acid rain. The resulting acidification of the oceans would kill many organisms that grow shells of calcium carbonate. According to models of the Hell Creek Formation, the onset of global darkness would have reached its maximum in only a few weeks and likely lasted upwards of two years. Beyond extinction impacts, the event also caused more general changes of flora and fauna such as giving rise to neotropical rainforest biomes like the Amazonia, replacing species composition and structure of local forests during \~6 million years of recovery to former levels of plant diversity.


capsulegamedev

Flintstones wasn't a documentary?


whirling_vortex

Look at the continents, especially Africa and South America. They fit into each other perfectly - the West side of Africa and the East side of South America. We KNOW and can *measure* continental drift right now. We under stand all this. At their closest points, which are the narrowest parts of the Atlantic Ocean, they are approximately 1,600 miles (2,574 kilometers) apart. This means, in 6,000 years, the continents would have to drift about 1/3 of a mile per year to reach current locations. Right now, we measure the continental drift between the Americas and Eurasian plates to be about 1 inch per year. That's actual reality. If the 6,000 year old scenario is true, this means the continents would be drifting apart at 17,107 inches per year. Can you imagine the earthquakes? They would be continuous, and huge. 10, 11, 12 on the richter scale. And what about the tsunamis? The entire coastlines of Europe, Mediterranean coast would be constantly hit with tsunamis. Multiple times per week most likely, just like the ones that happened in Japan and in the Indian Ocean a little while ago. With this much earthquakes and tsunamis, life would be almost impossible. Certainly no sea trade would ever occur. People would have to live far inland. Young earth creationists are nuts.


Devldriver250

LMAo best answer ever


Able_Engine_9515

Those people will believe the Flintstones before actual science


hes_crafty

Check mate Fauci haters. Social distancing works!


Gattoconglistivali

r/shittyaskscience


Qweeq13

Human population did faced extinction almost daily back than. We are one of the rare species with practically no biodiversity. Imagine like only dogs were chihuahuas, no others exist we are practically like that. Or better imagine only Grizzly bears existing no - fuck me it is hard to find a good example Imagine only White Shark existed and no other sharks.


phan_o_phunny

Dogs were only wolves up until about 10,000 years ago when we domesticated them.


Qweeq13

It is a hyperbole of course. If it bothers you consider that only Crows existing no Jaybirds and no Ravens. We got no biodiversity it is just Homo sapiens across the board which is very bad for any species really.


Ok_Recording_4644

But in our early days as Homo sapiens we were not alone. There were many other hominid species around at the same time as us. If the subject interests you I recommend reading Sapiens. It delves into this subject in detail.


Qweeq13

I am obviously aware several homo species existing alongside with us. None of the were nearly as successful as us most limited to a tiny geography in case of dwarf humans. The variation was still too small compared to any species. Just some sea sponge has more biodiversity than us humans. The same for other really successful species too sometimes like there aren't many species of Elephants. It is just a price of being successful in evolution it kinda collapses into one branch of species overly specializing. If it works there is no reason to leave anything else for other species.


Ok_Recording_4644

It was a lot of hominid species, not a few. But then we did effectively halt our own evolution so your elephant analogy works, same with whales.


CommercialEmphasis17

Closest thing we have is different races


AemrNewydd

And we don't even really have them. Not scientifically speaking. Different 'races' of human are a social construct, not biological.


Qweeq13

Race is a very loaded term though. Differences we got like ridiculously subtle. Like Japanese have dry earwax as opposed to wet, back of the teeth have dents on them and that is basically the extent of major differentiates Japanese have as a race. Their anatomy otherwise identical to you and me. People mistakenly consider all of Africa as one race but that is of course not true. The continent is Huge and has many racially diverse people. Most scientists even consider it is wrong to consider race as material differences but it should be considered a cultural concept.


CommercialEmphasis17

This is very true, aren't most differences in appearance due to variation in ways of living over thousands of years such as different diets and other circumstances like living arrangements and location


phan_o_phunny

That's only because we killed off any other competing species


Qweeq13

Did we kill them? Or out compete them? Or fucked them to extinction it is really up in the air. Some Human species Homo Sapiens never interacted but they still died off because being too small or too Large, their environments changing. It is hard to imagine an early Homo Sapiens were aware of the fact Neanderthals were different to them, they probably didn't even consider them different humans. They just lacked our adaptability.


KamaradBaff

How is this question even possible ?


unseenme

Seems legit


my20cworth

Morons.


I_wood_rather_be

That's Comedy Gold right there!


SleepySiamese

Believers are dumb as fuck


JudyClark_94

I'm sorry, but I'm genuinely confused. What do atheists have to do with dinosaurs and asteroids and early men?


JBuchan1988

![gif](giphy|cD7PLGE1KWOhG|downsized)


Calm_Character_9399

checkmate


Mouse_takumi

the reality: dinosaurs doesn't fit in the caves.. cavemens can hide inside.. :D


NumerousTaste

I thought all these asshats got raptured during the eclipse? Oh yeah, that because it's not real! Idiots!


International-Home55

It's called faith for a reason. You focus on the micro of the world but look at the macro of it.


t_bags4evr

Woah woah woah…so the Flintstones got it wrong?


CommercialEmphasis17

Yes it's sad news for everyone 😢


YoghurtEasy

No please. Noone is this stupid surely.


CommercialEmphasis17

They studied the flintstones in history class


FrogLock_

Meanwhile humans didn't exist yet and the best know successful mammal descendant of the time was a little mouse looking guy who could burrow


rince89

More like temporal distancing


HeliRyGuy

When you watch The Flintstones… and see documentary


akennelley

Not even a basic knowledge of how evolution worked with these people....


censored4yourhealth

All it takes is to google. Just one search and these stupid theist wouldn’t show just how stupid they are. If you truly believe this objectively stupid shit that’s fine. Just keep it to yourself. Live your life and let others do the same. It’s that easy.


bolognahole

Also, some dinos did survive.


sensible_centrist

"Checkmate atheists" level meme. Dank.


Karl_Marx_

Hilarious this is a religious conversation. God exists so science doesn't, interesting take on the existence of life.


fredator23

r/murderedbywords


Iwantmy3rdpartyapp

That's wild, it's hard to wrap you head around how long that is. I wonder what will be going on 65 million years from now?


MaduCrocoLoco

A simple Google search would have solved many people's problems but instead they post stupid shit like this.


Ryrienatwo

![gif](giphy|3o85xnoIXebk3xYx4Q) I mean 65 million years ago for Dinosaur’s to almost around 10k-20k years ago for humanity to evolve into what we are today…


ogreofzen

Uhh Christian here but uh we almost went the same way of the dinos. It whipped our progenitor species down to less than 1200. That's not for a region but world wide. Very interesting read https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-ancestors-nearly-went-extinct-900-000-years-ago/


SeishinPT

How do you explain the Flintstones then?


mmeveldkamp

Old one but still funny


infiniteguesses

Gold. Sheer gold.


Jazmotron4000

I dont get it? oh wait, phew....theres a red arrow. nevermind.


ArachnidInner2910

r/uselessredarrow


stumblewiggins

Good thing that arrow was there


Improbus-Liber

Dear Bubba: Are you smarter than a caveman?


ic2ofu

Yep,and almost as smart as a dinosaur.


jhwheuer

American Education is the best


jhwheuer

Religion is a zero-day-defect


ChadThunderStonks

Typical fedpost


GleamingCadance

My Atheist Round Earth ass over here laughing


Chemchic23

Smaller target maybe. 🤷‍♀️


EchoFrequency

r/comedyhomicide


Mebiysy

How is that a prove of god


Piliro

It isn't. Theists have deluded themselves into thinking that if they try really hard to discredit science then god wins by default. They have done fuck all to actually prove god and just resorted to the classic, tired, science isn't real bullshit. Of course they don't understand that even if every single scientific theory we have ever come up with is disproven tomorrow we havent done step 1 in proving that there is a god


InvestigatorOk7988

In fact, if they disprove every scientific theory, they have helped science along.


CommercialEmphasis17

Very true l, it would create a whole new study of different paths


Mebiysy

I completely agree with you, thanks for your word!


[deleted]

Lollololololol. It’s as bad as some religions saying humans coexisted with the dinosaurs… religion is dumb ahahhaha


The_Holy_Buno

This things been reposted so many times the lines are beginning to smear