Thread: Columbus was in U.S. FIRST !!!

Originally Posted by BobH

Well, yes and no on that one. Yes to the Anishinaabe and hundreds of other tribes being the first to the Americas. No to scientific findings that change like the seasons.

It has been pretty well established scientifically that the first is true and has been accepted for as long as I can remember. The scientific evidence just keeps getting better for this theory The 'First Americans': Humans arrived in THREE great migrations across land bridge from Siberia - and DNA differences can still be detected today | Mail Online .

The greatest thing the peoples of the Americas have in common is that we were all immigrants at one time or another and have on heck of a deep shared gene pool because of it.

Bob

Well bob, there are quite a few "problems" still to be worked out with this "theory". That is why it is called a theroy. I will touch on just a few.

1. Dr. Goodyear of the University of South Carolina has recently found carbon fingerprints dating thousands of years prior to the last glacial period which would contradict the Bering straight "theory". He is not alone. They are currently investigating many other findings in South America that report to have confirmed this! They also once believed a "theory" called Clovis which has recently been debunked. Your link above shows that there is yet another "theory" that there were three separate migrations now.

2. Popular thinking is that Natvie Americans are one people. This is not true at all! Even with so-called scientific studies that suggest Native Americans have a genetic ancestor it is still an undeniable fact that of the 375+ tribes once here (many tribes were massacred by Columbus, early spainiards, and others) over 200 of them are as different as Chinese and African people. So describing how a handful of tribes migrated doesn't account for the other couple hundred.

3. (The biggest problem in my book) they are denying the history accounts of thousands of people!!! Talk about self centered ignorance! (Scientists not you Bob) I choose to believe in an arrow point found in the ground and carbon dated even though whole nations of people are telling me different. This is not scientific fact they are scientific theories. They are called theories for a reason. They DONT know for sure but everyone regurgitates these findings as fact. Do you want to know the fact just go ask the people themselves. They are still here! How frustrating would it be for you to have someone tell you that you don't live in the house where you say you live because they have evidence otherwise. A little know fact is that the land bridge theory was first proposed by a Jesuit priest, Jose de Acosta, with no scientific findings. It just made sense to him and lined up with HIS religious teachings of Adam and Eve. Could there have been an ulterior motive perhaps?

There are many other problems with these "theories" which is why they are still being studied and debated. What you quote is only the most recent finding supporting another (3 separate migrations) theory. This is not fact.