User:Lucius Sempronius Turpio

I believe the Westren Roman Empire didnt fall in 476 ad as the Ostrogoths who succeeded considered themselves as upholders of the direct line of Roman traditions. Many scholars maintain that rather than a "fall", the changes can more accurately be described as a complex transformation.

Henri Pirenne continued this idea in "Pirenne Thesis", published in the 1920s, which remains influential to this day. This theory stipulates the rise of the Frankish realm in Europe as a continuation of the Roman Empire, and thus legitimizes the crowning of Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor as a continuation of the Imperial Roman state. Pirenne's view on the continuity of the Roman Empire before and after the Germanic invasion was supported by recent historians such as François Masai, Karl-Ferdinand Werner and Peter Brown.

The French historian Lucien Musset, studying the Barbarian invasions, argues the civilization of Medieval Europe emerged from a synthesis between the Roman world and the Germanic civilizations penetrating the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire did not fall, did not decline, it just transformed but so did the Germanic populations which invaded it. To support this conclusion, beside the narrative of the events, he offers linguistic overviews of toponymy and anthroponymy, he aslo has analyzed archaeological records.

My Favorite Wikipedia articles, that could use some help:


 * Roman Empire
 * Holy Roman Empire
 * Romano-Germanic culture

Some of my favorite, that I dont see a need for improvement:


 * Christianity
 * Roman Catholic

Here are some of my favorite Quotes.

"I was a young man with unformed ideas, I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all

the time over everything, and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made

a religion out of them" - Charles Darwin.

"Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed." (Charles Darwin, My Life & Letters)

"The theory of evolution suffers from grave defects, which are more and more apparent as time advances. It can no longer square with practical scientific knowledge." (Dr A Fleishmann, Zoologist, Erlangen University) "The theory of the transmutation of species is a scientific mistake, untrue in its facts, unscientific in its method, and mischievous in its tendency." (Prof. J Agassiz, of Harvard in Methods of Study in Natural History) "We have to admit that there is nothing in the geological records that runs contrary to the views of conservative creationists." (Evolutionist Edmund Ambrose) "A growing number of respectable scientists are defecting from the evolutionist camp ... moreover, for the most part these 'experts' have abandoned Darwinism, not on the basis of religious faith or biblical persuasions, but on scientific grounds, and in some instances, regretfully." (Wolfgang Smith, Ph.D., physicist and mathematician) "As by this theory, innumerable transitional forms must have existed. Why do we not find them embedded in the crust of the earth? Why is not all nature in confusion [of halfway species] instead of being, as we see them, well-defined species?"

—Charles Darwin, quoted in H. Enoch, Evolution or Creation (1966), p. 139.

"The intelligent layman has long suspected circular reasoning in the use of rocks to date fossils and fossils to date rocks. The geologist has never bothered to think of a good reply." (J.O'Rourke in the American Journal of Science) "The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils." (Stephen J. Gould)

"Is all matter self created and did inorganic self-creating matter create intelligence and then life itself in opposition to observed science? Would that not be in violation of the 1st and 2nd law of Thermodynamics, probability theory, biogenesis, and common sense?" (J.S Kissinger)