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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish53•5 months agoThere’s not a scientific consensus on that. It’s a good theory, but stating it as an accepted fact is inaccurate.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish36•5 months ago “It’s been solved basically” Almost always translates to “This is the theory I like most so it’s the answer I’ll run with.”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoI feel like the point isn’t that it MUST have been used for knitting (even if it could have been), but that we should be open to more possibilities before defaulting to a religious explanation.
There’s not a scientific consensus on that. It’s a good theory, but stating it as an accepted fact is inaccurate.
Almost always translates to “This is the theory I like most so it’s the answer I’ll run with.”
I feel like the point isn’t that it MUST have been used for knitting (even if it could have been), but that we should be open to more possibilities before defaulting to a religious explanation.
Knitting is religious?