Ugh I hate that stupid argument pseudoscience always uses. Look at this same thing these completely separated groups of humans did, there must be some external factor like ALIENS making it happen. Except there is no such thing as completely separated groups of humans, we are all related. We all have the same brains, which are very complicated machines. We also live on the same planet and interact with the same things. We have the same needs and wants etc. So no wonder we do the same things when facing similar circumstances or trying to solve similar things.
Plus there is the whole “big stable pile of rocks” thing, which is survival bias at work.
Oh, the extremely high pile of almost impossible to move rocks? Nah, if I claimed people didn’t do those, you would be able to disprove me in minutes in the internet. No, the smoking gun is that the piles are turned this way! Only aliens would build the piles on this direction!
It happens all the time. There’s a limited number of ways to solve a problem, and nature will trend towards a certain optimum. That’s why we have wolves, and Tasmanian wolves, which are basically the same and yet completely unrelated. That’s why basically every culture has a form of canoo, and why there are marsupial and placental moles, or hummingbirds and sunbirds. And why American and African pyramids look roughly alike. Or why pretty much every culture has pottery, or fire.
Ugh I hate that stupid argument pseudoscience always uses. Look at this same thing these completely separated groups of humans did, there must be some external factor like ALIENS making it happen. Except there is no such thing as completely separated groups of humans, we are all related. We all have the same brains, which are very complicated machines. We also live on the same planet and interact with the same things. We have the same needs and wants etc. So no wonder we do the same things when facing similar circumstances or trying to solve similar things.
Plus there is the whole “big stable pile of rocks” thing, which is survival bias at work.
I really like the argument:
It happens all the time. There’s a limited number of ways to solve a problem, and nature will trend towards a certain optimum. That’s why we have wolves, and Tasmanian wolves, which are basically the same and yet completely unrelated. That’s why basically every culture has a form of canoo, and why there are marsupial and placental moles, or hummingbirds and sunbirds. And why American and African pyramids look roughly alike. Or why pretty much every culture has pottery, or fire.