PaleoBabble

Josh Says:

19 January 2012 at 7:26 AM.

Drosnin is a particularly apt candidate for Paleo-babble since he manages to combine the bible code with ancient aliens. He implies that Aliens encoded the Torah and gave it to Moses, and also implies that aliens invented human language.

Although I do also find it kind of funny that the so called “skeptic” has no problem making the leap that the human capacity for seeing order in chaos and pulling complex symbolism out of seemingly random data is merely an evolutionary hold over from our ancestors needing to be aware of animal signs.

The fact that he equates being aware of a rustle in the grass with finding (or even imposing) ordered patterns in chaotic, random data with a straight face as though this were simply a self-evident fact, just goes to show that its easy to think critically about other people’s views. The trick is to apply the same critical thought to your own ideas.

There is no real connection between the two. There is no necessity to look for patterns or to sift patterns out of chaotic data in order to be put on alert by unexpected movement or sounds.

you do not have to be good at seeing patterns in order to be aware of predators. You simply have to have sharp eyesight, keen hearing, or sense of smell (or all of the above).
Deer are far more wary and aware of predators than any human I have ever seen, yet strangely I have yet to run across a deer conspiracy theorists.

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