From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 52747
Date: 2008-02-12
----- Original Message -----
From: "george knysh" <gknysh@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Evolution and History of Human Populations in South Asia
>
> Patrick,
> If by "support" you mean material that might be
> relevant in conjunction with something else, then I
> would agree. The problem, however, is that the something
> else is always missing. It's as if someone showed you
> a brick and claimed he was about to build a house.
> Then you noticed that he just had that one brick. To
> my mind that's the difference between AIT (many
> versions) and OIT (all versions). The former, in spite
> of some areas where the evidence is less strong, is,
> on the whole, a scientifically satisfactory
> explanation of the IE world. The latter is sheer waste
> of valuable time. I admit the bricks are sometimes
> interesting. But they do not at all construct a case
> for OIT.
>
> George
>
> --- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:
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I do not see anything I have to disagree with here.
Patrick