CAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.deEnglish · 10 months agoAnother Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed in Englandwww.smithsonianmag.comexternal-linkmessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1238arrow-down13cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareNawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up55arrow-down2·10 months agoThere’s not a scientific consensus on that. It’s a good theory, but stating it as an accepted fact is inaccurate.
minus-squareRealFknNito@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38arrow-down2·10 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-squarefriendofafriendofafriend@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·10 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?