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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: walkabout in Valencia
From: Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:54:44 -0400
  Point well taken Andrew and there is no point arguing with religious
belief.

Charlie

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I assume that the indigenous peoples, as with ours, would insist that
> they have always been there and did not 'arrive'. For Australian
> Aboriginals, this is a matter of religion as their creation stories
> involve their being created with the land (an important concept for
> nomadic indigenes with an animist religion).
> To suggest otherwise, such as arrival 60K years ago during an ice age
> when seas were low, will get you a VERY strenuous argument in some
> tribal areas and a strong suggestion that you bugger off back to
> whitefella country immediately.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 19/04/2010, at 11:05 PM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
>
> >  Now that's a surprise. How else would they have gotten there? The
> > bus? But
> > seriously I've never heard of the land bridge theory being challenged.
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 7:23 PM, John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Suggesting that the "First Nations"  in Canada came across the Bering
> >> Straits is likely to get one lynched politically despite being
> >> plausibly
> >> true. The "whites", namely those of European heritage, arrived by
> >> boat from
> >> across the Atlantic which is a fact not in dispute.
>
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