I mean moreso the transition from concrete facts to "well we think this might have happened/been how people felt/etc". The destruction of digital information is a very real thing. Try finding any website from the 90's for example. I think there's a chance information retention, especially about "current events", will get worse, not better.
fishos
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Makes you wonder what parts of our current history will get garbled in 500 years and start becoming the stuff of myths.
Or even just the floodplains of the Nile flooding. A persons concept of "The World" was much smaller back then. If everything you know is flooded, that might as well be the whole world from your perspective.
I'm referring to "a great flood" which, yes, tho exaggerated, many scientists believe did occur and was the basis for such stories.
Most scientists who study it literally agree that Jesus Christ was a real person who lived around the time and had a following. They just disagree on the divinity aspect. But they are totally fine with saying "yeah, this dude probably existed and preached". Science has NO PROBLEM with religion, it just doesn't blindly believe it. Noah's flood is another example of "these stories were likely based on some actual events that occured".
If giants were real, just like pygmies are real, we'd happily discuss them.
The wise man plants a tree knowing he may never rest under its shade.