Originally posted by stellspalfie
what exactly are you accusing them of inventing and engineering? a
are you suggesting that they are aware that its made up and they have knowingly faked a theory? or do you think they have found all these bones and added 2 to 2 and come up with 5?
you can cobble together a definition of fictional if you wish, i hope its more accurate than your use of the word empirical.
any ideas on goosebumps yet?
if you go to the BBC website that i cited, you will see a physically engineered and
fictional depiction of a caveman and women. Empirical means that which can be
observed, you have not observed such a being, they have not determined that it
walked upright, they have stated that Lucy was the first upright ape, unobserved,
they have given the impression that she was something other than an ape, not true,
she was entirely simian, in fact, how much unobserved phenomena are you willing
to allow before you admit that its not based upon empirical science ( that which is
observed) but a theoretical estimation and projection based upon a purely
speculative basis? you have not observed transmutation, your theory cannot be
falsified and and fictional depictions are just that, made up or engineered, now you
can either accept this truth or not, but dont expect others to buy into your empirical
science when its nothing of the sort.