| > how many granite sculptures have you seen? We use enormous amounts of it in construction, cut to precise shapes. > just like bones and teeth Of which we have ample amounts of fossils. Even included in marble, which is itself hundreds of millions of years old. > it would not have stayed that way over tens of millions of years. So we don't have fossils from hundreds of millions of years ago? > Would bears endowed with human-level intelligence want to wear clothes and boots? Absolutely if they had a civilisation capable of producing climate change. We're talking about at least a billion individuals living in all environments on Earth, from the tropics to the arctic, and doing all things an advanced civilization does: farming, mining, building, transporting, exploring etc. At least elements of technical clothing are needed in many of these activities. > See section 1.3 in [1] You keep repeating an argument that disproves the possibility of all fossils. Really you can't understand that it's contradicted by facts? |
The question, which you did not answer, was about granite sculptures.
We use enormous amounts of granite in construction, crushed and mixed with cement, sand, and water to make concrete. Larger irregular pieces are also used for roads (under the asphalt and mixed with it) and railways. Some regularly shaped objects made of granite are used in construction, which is not generally undertaken on the kind of waterlogged terrain needed for clay to sink in, and will be subject to weathering at the previously discussed rates, to the extent that they are not broken or recycled when buildings are torn down.
>> just like bones and teeth
> Of which we have ample amounts of fossils.
A few million, counting all fossils of all species which have existed over the past three billion years or so.
Humans are one out of the billion or so species which have lived on Earth [1], the ~200k years we've been around are less than a millionth of that time span, the vast majority of humans never make sculptures, and the vast majority of sculptures are destroyed within a few centuries. But here you are, complaining that we have no sculptures from tens of millions of years ago.
>> Would bears endowed with human-level intelligence want to wear clothes and boots?
> Absolutely if they had a civilisation capable of producing climate change.
Ah yes, I can totally see a bear going "OMG it's getting so hot, I totally need to wear some artificial fur over my own!"
> You keep repeating an argument that disproves the possibility of all fossils.
No. You keep ignoring the time scale, the dynamics and the odds.
[1] https://www.livescience.com/animals/how-many-animals-have-ev...