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Why Would Anyone Be Surprised

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by these findings? This area has been overrun repeatedly and with some of the most fertile farmland in Europe is a prize worth taking for as long as you can hold it.

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2 ... 51706.html

For the first time, Stanford researchers have used novel statistical computer modeling to simulate demographic processes affecting the population of Tuscany over a 2,500-year time span. Rigorous tests used by the researchers have ruled out a genetic link between ancient Etruscans, the early inhabitants of central Italy, and the region's modern day residents.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.

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