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Originally posted by Kansas Bear View PostWasn't there a study that traced mitocondrial DNA back to a woman living in Africa however many thousands of years ago??When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? - George Canning sigpic
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Originally posted by Canmoore View PostReally? Where humans came from, and how we got to where we are has always facinated me.
Its like climate change or Theory of Everything to me, interesting to read about, but beyond that I ll leave it to the scientists.When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? - George Canning sigpic
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Originally posted by Canmoore View PostReally? Where humans came from, and how we got to where we are has always facinated me.
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Originally posted by dalem View PostIntelligent Design isn't science, so it's not in the same ballpark as those other two.
-daleF/A-18E/F Super Hornet: The Honda Accord of fighters.
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Originally posted by BenRoethig View PostExactly how did a weak hairless ape with poor senses, small litters, and young that are not able to fend for themselves for the lifetime of most predators come to be the dominant species and develop concepts that have nothing to do with survival? Did we catch breaks at exactly the right time every time? Why didn't other species with similar advantageous skill sets emerge? Whatever your personally theory is, you have to take a leap of faith because the calculators say we should have been very much extinct during the hunter-gather days.
What spawned so called civilization, was when a bunch of those ape-men decided that if they work together and gang up on the loners or the smaller groups, they extended thier life expectancy and all they had to do was share the spoils.
Much like today, but on a larger scale and much more complicated to make it seem like it is nothing as barbaric as hundreds of thousands of years ago.
We've come a long way, or have we?
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Originally posted by BenRoethig View PostExactly how did a weak hairless ape with poor senses, small litters, and young that are not able to fend for themselves for the lifetime of most predators come to be the dominant species and develop concepts that have nothing to do with survival? Did we catch breaks at exactly the right time every time? Why didn't other species with similar advantageous skill sets emerge? Whatever your personally theory is, you have to take a leap of faith because the calculators say we should have been very much extinct during the hunter-gather days.
My tangential response to your question above is to ask you if you're aware that you've really dropped all pretense at scientific exploration here and gone right to plain old Creationism.
Science doesn't provide solid answers to the question "why?" And your challenge above is poorly-constructed anyway. There is no indication that early hominids were either weak or deficient in senses. In fact our good vision has long been thought to be a primary, if not the primary adaptive trait that pushed the devlopment of our main adaptive Royal Flush - the brain.
So did we catch breaks as a species? Almost certainly. But we had the traits to allow us to take advantage of those breaks, and so voila!
-dale
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Originally posted by BenRoethig View PostExactly how did a weak hairless ape with poor senses, small litters, and young that are not able to fend for themselves for the lifetime of most predators come to be the dominant species and develop concepts that have nothing to do with survival? Did we catch breaks at exactly the right time every time? Why didn't other species with similar advantageous skill sets emerge? Whatever your personally theory is, you have to take a leap of faith because the calculators say we should have been very much extinct during the hunter-gather days."Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.
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Christ on a bike!
Look at the size of the cosmos - There must be billions of planets with life like ours on them.
Billions.
We will never meet each other. The cosmos is just too big.
Billions of planet earths (who knows what those inhabitants look like?)
We will never meet or know about them - The whole thing is just too BIG.
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Originally posted by BenRoethig View PostSo, your pure hatred of religion has you both completely walled off to any explanation other than a 50 trillion to 1 long shot.
C'mon then lets talk about god.
what do you mean by 'pure hatred of religion' ?
You - Me - Lets talk about religion.
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Originally posted by BenRoethig View PostSo, your pure hatred of religion has you both completely walled off to any explanation other than a 50 trillion to 1 long shot.
Moan then!!
Lets hear a serious case for your beliefs against people who your head deems 'haters of religion'
Lets go.........sigpic
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