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(Epistimology, media literacy, research, debate, Scottish culture) https://youtu.be/z3G9D9GzFio Many people believe a monster lives in the Scottish lake of Loch Ness. There have been a few reports since the middle ages when the region was less accessible. In the 7th century a bishop known as Saint Colombo reported a creature in the lake had killed a man and when the man was being buried on the shore the creature came back. Saint Colombo was able to fend it off by calling on God and making the sign of the cross. The creature retreated. Reports of a loch ness monster became very common starting in 1933. Loch ness is a large lake 24 miles long, and a mile wide. At it's deepest it's 750 feet deep, which is deeper than 4 football fields and would submerge every building in Tampa. It's deeper than a 50 story building. It was formed 10,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age. The great marine reptiles died out 66 million years ago. They swam in the open ocean. They...

Early explanation for fossils  In the 4th century BCE Aristotle made critical observations of the slow rate of geological change. He observed the composition of the land and formulated a theory where the Earth changes at a slow rate and that these changes cannot be observed during one person's lifetime. Aristotle developed one of the first evidence-based concepts connected to the geological realm regarding the rate at which the Earth physically changes. He realized that coastlines change. Sea arches collapse and turn to sea stacks. The shorelines move but it happens so slowly one man can't observe it in his lifetime. Many people believed that fossils grew underground.  They called them 'the devil's toesnails' or tongue stones. The Rock Cycle https://youtu.be/7Bxw4kkeHJ8 https://youtu.be/EjnsLu6RyYU Sedimentary Rocks A Danish Catholic bishop by the name of Nicholas Steno took up the hobby of studying rocks in between his biblical studies....