[ClearCase_guy]

It seems to me that it would take a miracle for people to originate in an African desert 60,000 years ago and then spread all over the world -- even to Easter Island with basically no technology. And to separate into rather distinct races in such a time. And to live at a stone age level up until just a few thousand years ago and then -- poof! -- for serious civilization to start springing up everywhere in the world simultaneously. It all seems miraculous.

Of course, my worldview allows for the belief in miracles. But the secular humanists? They ought to find such miracles hard to swallow.

[GOPBlonde]

“Of course, my worldview allows for the belief in miracles. But the secular humanists? They ought to find such miracles hard to swallow.”

No, the secular humanists believe we came from space aliens. I learned that on the History Channel.

[Moltke]

And to live at a stone age level up until just a few thousand years ago and then -- poof! -- for serious civilization to start springing up everywhere in the world simultaneously.

When you start from a false premise, your conclusions will be incorrect.

[Pharmboy]

I am a Wolpoffian/Multiregional guy too...AND in this article they imply this by stating that the later populations out of Africa hooked up with extant regional H. erectus, etc. Whereas in years past the politically correct OOA anthros and population geneticists wouldn't HEAR of this, they are now coming around.

[wendy1946]

Of course, my worldview allows for the belief in miracles. But the secular humanists? They ought to find such miracles hard to swallow.

The sum total of things viewed as miracles in the Bible is probably somewhere between 20 and 50. Evolution on the other hand requires believing in a trans-finite sequence of absolute zero-probability events and probabilistic miracles. Which is the religion?

Other than that the whole idea of modern man evolving from hominids is basically untenable at this juncture.