Posted on 04/09/2009 8:33:10 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Did Early Man Have a Soul?
April 8, 2009 — Some recent discoveries are surprising paleoanthropologists by how much some early ancestors seem – well, human. We’re talking about ancestors half a million years old in the evolutionary scheme. They were supposed to be prior to Homo sapiens and the Neanderthals, but they seem to exhibit intelligence and compassion.
A report on New Scientist inferred that these early humans cared for the disabled. The skull of a child found in Spain suggests it was mentally retarded. To be able to live to age 12 indicates its parents or the social group cared for the individual. They claim the skull is 500,000 years old.
Another find surprised evolutionists. Ann Gibbons reported in Science Now the earliest stone tools ever found – said to be 500,000 years old. “Paleoanthropologists working in Africa have discovered stone blades more than a half-million years old,” she wrote. “That pushes the date of the earliest known blades back a remarkable 150,000 years and raises a question: What human ancestor made them?” A little history lesson shows just how remarkable this is:
Not long ago, researchers thought that blades were so hard to make that they had to be the handiwork of modern humans, who had evolved the mental wherewithal to systematically strike a cobble in the right way to produce blades and not just crude stone flakes. First, they were thought to be a hallmark of the late Stone Age, which began 40,000 years ago. Later, blades were thought to have emerged in the Middle Stone Age, which began about 200,000 years ago when modern humans arose in Africa and invented a new industry of more sophisticated stone tools. But this view has been challenged in recent years as researchers discovered blades that dated to 380,000 years in the Middle East and to almost 300,000 years ago in Europe, where Neandertals may have made them (ScienceNOW, 1 December 2008).It should be remembered that all of recorded human history, in which man went from stone tablets to interplanetary space flight, covers just 10,000 years. Scientists must be shocked at this announcement; “the discovery of blades this early suggests that these toolmakers were capable of more sophisticated behavior than previously thought,” Gibbons wrote. She ended by hinting that maybe even older blades are waiting to be found.
Now it appears that more than 500,000 years ago, human ancestors living in the Baringo Basin of Kenya collected lava stone cobbles from a riverbed and hammered them in just the right way to produce stone blades.
The evolutionary picture of early man has stretched credibility way, way beyond the breaking point. Every year it seems to get worse for them. Who could possibly believe that beings as anatomically close to us, with brains our size, just sat around in caves caring for retarded children and making tools without learning how to ride a horse, farm, write and build cities for 450,000 years – 45 times longer than recorded history? How much longer before the scholarly community rises up and tells these storytellers they have no idea what they are talking about?
No pockets, so they had to keep lint somewhere.
True, it isn’t and that is one of its weaknesses, that the theory can only look back and claim to discover its operation after the fact, to interpret, not predict.
redirect, not misdirect.
You are remis(s).
They may have been Nephilim. Cain, after killing Abel,m could have been afraid to encounter them..
Early humans may have cared for disabled young
New Scientist | March 31, 2009 | Ewen Callaway
Posted on 04/06/2009 9:54:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2223424/posts
Neandertal cannibalism? Maybe not
60 Second Science Blog, Scientific American | April 2, 2009 | Kate Wong
Posted on 04/06/2009 9:23:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2223389/posts
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What utter garbage. Plenty of folks made it into modern times without developing the ability to write, ride horses, farm or build cities. The idea that such features follow a linear time frame is infantile at best and if it represents the best science that creationists have to offer then they won’t be offering a challenge to real science for some time.
The Evos are the ones that claim that we slowly evolved over millions of years in linear time. Creationists believe that man was created fully formed and fully functional, and if anything, that we have degenerated (both physically and mentally) since the time of Adam and Eve.
That’s a CS Lewis quote, FYI.
The evolutionary view, as you said, assumes that today’s man is more advanced than “ancient” man,
and by extension, that we are still evolving and that some are “more evolved” than others.
This leads directly into leftist ideology, where some “elites” are more advanced, morally and intellectually, and have a duty to shape society with their superior abilities.
Why yes. There should be an evolving of moral superiority too. More humaness as it were. Darwin was certain the morality of an Englishman like himself was much higher than the “primitive” dark skinned races.
As you say, the “smart” folks will take care of us, the reprobate masses.
oh happy day.
Another wilful misrepresentation.
Science has evidence to support the proposition that humans developed slowly over millions of years but that timeframe was punctuated by the development of mental and physical capabilities that allowed things like farming and city building. Nothing linear about it.
I suspect both you and the authors of the article you posted already knew that but have chosen to both misrepresent science and to ignore easily availble evidence of modern neolithic peoples to push a ludicrous argument.
I’m not aware of anything in the Bible that even suggests that lying for God is a good thing. Only the koran seems to allow that.
Since modern man doesn’t have a “soul”, if early man did, evolution decided it wasn’t really an advantage.
No it doesn’t. Darwood’s materialist creation myth is a religion that the Evos twist the data to give it the air of scientific credibility. We are not fooled. You may now return to pooring milk over your Darwin idols.
If that were really true, you wouldn’t need to lie to make a case against it.
==If that were really true, you wouldn’t need to lie to make a case against it.
The fact you are calling me a liar, makes you a liar. And judging by your other comments, you are also delusional, which makes you a deluded liar. You may now return to poring milk over your Darwin idols.
Have a blessed day!
Thousands of paleontologists would disagree with you on that.
Which is roughly 4,000 years longer than what Biblical creationism allows for, isn't it?
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