(10-05-2019, 02:21 PM)Morten St. George wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
It seems wind and ocean waves can distribute plant life across continents but the same cannot be said for animal life, which brings us back to the age-old question: Is it an armadillo or a pangolin?
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This is not a scientific way to ask a question. You've already pre-decided what it might be, which means you might completely overlook the best answer.
A better way would be... "What can this drawing represent?"
Then you get possibilities like, pangolin, armadillo, aardvark, sheep, goat, mythical creature, heraldic emblem, satirical representation (e.g., political, religious, etc.), golden fleece, hybrid animal, agnus dei, and several others.
If you work through them, you can often shorten the list to the most likely possibilities. But don't make a decision about what it is yet. It would be premature.
Now take the next piece of evidence and investigate that and see how it relates the creature, to see if any of the results of THAT list and then the next and the next. You might have to investigate 1,000 or 10,000 pieces of evidence before you can come back to the first one and see potential patterns.
You said you've done 40 years of research, but if it was 40 years of cherry-picking and assumption-filtered investigation, then it wasn't really research. With the VMS, you have an opportunity to do REAL research.

