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To find out what it is we must begin with a basic logical tool
discovered by the Greek philosopher Pythagoras (circa 600 BC). He
is generally regarded as the first European to claim that the Earth
is round and that it can be divided into climatic zones (polar,
temperate and equatorial). He also introduced the notion of
'antipodes' - that people could live on the opposite side of the
earth. The Greek word for 'feet' is pode and so Pythagoras called
land in the southern hemisphere antipodes because the feet of the
people living there were pointing in a direction that was counter
to the northern hemisphere. Antipodes means 'counter-footed.' This
notion of antipodes is a fundamental logical tool for evaluating
the reliability of the ice dating method.

Geologists almost never tire of repeating the phrase first coined
by James Hutton that 'the present is the key to past.' Stephen Jay
Gould in a 1965 article entitled "Is Uniformitarianism Necessary?"
cast some doubt upon the total reliablity of this phrase but it is
still, nevertheless, a central concept in geology. If we wish to
understand the past we must first understand the present. This is
good advice and provided we remember that rates of change can vary
without violating physical laws, it is advice that we need to take
seriously. Today we do not find ice sheets accumulating in
temperate zones (except in mountain ranges) nor do we find
temperate adapted animals living in polar zones. What we find
instead is ice accumulating at the poles and only a small range of
polar adapted animals living within the polar zones.  [1]NEXT

References

1. file://localhost/www/sat/files/stws3.htm