[fishtank]

Image from article.

[celmak]

Fully human.

[Graewoulf]

Great find, thanks!

[FairWitness]

Neandertals ate starchy foods for nutrition and plants that provided medicinal benefits, too?

I don't know what her sources of information were, but Jean Auel described this in great (and entertaining) detail over 30 years ago in "The Clan of the Cave Bear".

[dangerdoc]

Only human.

[fish hawk]

Whether it be legend or myth, it is said in my tribe (Klamath River Yuroks, N. Calif.) that man learned of medicine plants from watching the bear. Bears know what is medicine and what is poison etc. and the Indians called the bear “Auntie” and held her in high esteem. I once observed a bear on a river bank scraping river moss off the rocks and eating it, something no one I ever talked to had ever witnessed. I figured that bear needed something in that moss to heal him as no one knew that they eat river moss when the woods in that area are full of acorns, berries , fish and game, all things that bears eat.

[stars & stripes forever]

It is time the church gets on the offense and actively teaches creation the way actually happened:

JOHN 1:1

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning.

Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

Churches are churning out little humanists by perpetuating the myth of subhuman people, the link between humans and apes. We are made in the image of God.

To make an impact, Bible-believing churches in every community should annually band together to host a Creation Conference for children.

[Wuli]

why do modern humans continue to confuse

thousands of years of the “observation of implicit cause and affect” (without ever knowing the explicit cause)

together with the ability to pass on the accumulation of such observations

as if early humans had some secret “science” in the modern sense

it wasn’t

it was what it was

people noted an affect that the use of something in nature had, though they lacked the ability to investigate why

and the simple act of observation and passing on what had been observed went on, and on, and on and was repeated, for thousands of years

humans have always been able to learn by experience, to show others - by demonstration - what they learned, and to pass what they learned on to their children; long before humans learned to devise a writing system and keep written records

it was not “amazing”; it was human