It would never occur to a monkey picking fleas off his best friend's head that he could invent fire, weapons, build houses, plant crops, etc. That took time.
The sense that we could actually improve things for ourselves in new and wonderous ways, and not just worry about filling our bellies all the time, by manipulating objects in our environment in such a way as to make life easier and more enjoyable would only dawn on a few scattered individuals over a veeery long time, centuries even, and at first, only by accident; i.e., the first ape to pick up a club and whack a rival over the head with it didn't plan on doing that ahead of time. It occurred accidentally, à la 2001 a Space Odyssey. Now, of course, we're always trying to think of new and better ways to do things 24/7 because we've become accustomed to thinking that way. But nowhere is that mentioned in this article.
But, like I said, what do I know?
when God breathed life into man’s body
There is an interesting theory that postulates that very early man gained eventual intelligence though eating magic mushrooms. During the hunting and gathering, very early man sort of micro-dosed on these mushrooms and began to expand the neural (is that a word) activity until they became us...
Makes about as much sense as anything else.
One other and totally unrelated fact I learned a few years back...is that our fore-fathers here in American were wacked most of the time drinking apple jack because no one trusted the water...So the Revolutionary war, consitution and most of the early part of our country’s history was conducted by a bunch of drunks...Ha! Makes sense.
I don’t know when I’ve seen so many assumptions in one place as I just read in that article.
When God breathed His spirit into Adam
The theory of evolution is what happens when you string together facts with mere speculation.
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For as long as I can remember, anyway.
Thanks for posting that article - its better than most on the topic.
However, there is ample evidence that people were in the Indonesia area long before Africa and that from there, there was a migration INTO Africa. In short, the “Out of Africa’ theory is now suspect. Lots of people like the “Out of Africa’ theory because it gives a direct route to Europe and connects to their historical ancestors. But that leaves out all the other evidence from Asia and SE Asia that contradicts it. If you want to know more, start reading; don’t ask me, I’m busy reading.
As the author notes about people 300,000 years ago “theoretically could have discovered relativity, built space telescopes, written novels and love songs. Their bones say they were just as human as we are.” And over that period of time, nothing, not even dust, would remain of what they did or did not have or do; nothing we build or make today would last 10,000 years let alone 300,000.
We only know of them because a very few were ‘lucky’ enough to die under circumstances that their bones fossilized. And because of institutionalized consensus thinking, anything or object which contradicts that thinking is ridiculed, buried, and the finder ostracized from the scientific community; it often takes decades for the current consensus thinking meme to be overthrown.
Nick Longrich
Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology and Paleontology, University of Bath
I’m an evolutionary biologist and paleontologist from Kodiak, Alaska. I’m interested in how the world evolved to be the way it is. I study mass extinction, adaptive radiation, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and mosasaurs, among other things.
Singularity Hub.? Perhaps the should call it Secular Hub..
I’ve got news for you - DNA is way more complex than computer code and takes a highly intelligent mind to create it. DNA can not write itself.
What about micro-evo you say? It had to also be written into the original DNA code to allow for adaptation and mutation but it is only within the same kinds of DNA no such thing as macro-evolution [monkey business!].
Last consider what has been learned on the creation science side of the argument.