What's "prehistoic"?

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   aka-djposted 14 years ago

   Evolutionists often refer to prehistoric (this or that). Then they go into all sorts of "details" of how everything was (supposed to be).
   I mean we get hairy, monkey like humanoids (in full colour, and animated no less)from nothing more than jawbones. Or CGI of all sorts of dinosaurs, what they looked like et-al, from fossils.
   If it's "pre" historic, how can we know?
   It's only human imagination after all. (somones best guess)ye?

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      Paragliderposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Prehistoric means before documentary evidence. It doesn't mean before evidence.

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      mythbusterposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Pre-hi-stoic? The time before Stoics inhabited the earth?
      
      

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      Shil1978posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      How about God then - human imagination?

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   LondonGirlposted 14 years ago

   archeology, remains, bones, ruins, carbon dating - all sorts.

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      packerpackposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Agree with her. Not each and every scientist speak about prehistoric times based on imagination. We have so many technologies and scientific methods that help us collect data and derive proper inference about life and environment in those days.

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         andromidaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         I agree with both of you.Prehistoric is before the starting of writing or having some reliable evidence of something.If this is the case then we have to depend on fossil, carbon dating etc.-that much only I know.

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   Uninvited Writerposted 14 years ago

   The HubPages forums are really showing me what it would have been like if we had had the Internet during the Dark Ages...

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   gbychanposted 14 years ago

   IIRC, "history" refers to documented information. "Prehistory" is used to differentiate everything that was PRIOR to human record. So if you're looking at anything that existed or happened before people (generally or within that specific region) developed a method of writing about it, then it's obviously "before history."

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   Ivorwenposted 14 years ago

   Technically, any animal that went extinct prior to 1500 A.D. is considered prehistoric.

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   Dolores Monetposted 14 years ago

   prehysteric, the moment in time before everybody went nuts

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      mythbusterposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      luvvit!
      
      I had outlined 'prehistoic' because of the original spelling mistake in the thread, but I like where you're going with this, too, Dolores Monet!

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   Pete Maidaposted 14 years ago

   There is plenty of evidence on Earth and in the stars.  I do not know the exact definition but I would say it would be the ages before written history.
   
   If the Earth was very old there would be no oil or diamonds.  Also if there wasn't life on Earth before humans there would also be no oil because the organic matter wouldn't have had enough time to create it.
   
   I put a Hubble picture in one of my hubs of galaxies hundreds of millions of light years away.  That picture itself and the science behind is evidence of the age of the universe.

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   moposanposted 14 years ago

   prebullshitting

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   AEvansposted 14 years ago

   Mark Knowles!!! lolololo just kidding. (((Big Hugs))

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      Mark Knowlesposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      

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    Shil1978posted 14 years ago

    The evidence is there for those who wish to see it!!!

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