Wednesday, 1 October 2008

Be ready for the debate

Who really discovered Australia? From now on you can pass by this blog to read and comment the latest posts. Just few people believe nowadays that Captain James Cook was the first man to sight that huge mass of land. What about the Aboriginals, who arrived there more than 50,000 years ago? Or the Indonesian fishermen and pearl hunters? Or, in a more Eurocentric way, even the Portuguese sailors, who arrived in Timor it the 1510's?

Insisting in Captain Cook's discovery is pretty much the same as the creationism as a theory. Besides George W. Bush and Sarah Palin who else believes in Adam and Eve? Hmm? Please raise your hands...

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