“No human being alive today was there 6000 years ago, but fortunately, others were. The Mesopotamians, for example, who were actually around from 8000 BC.”
I think that’s a bit of a stretch... It seems to me that what makes a being “human” is not so much his body, but his mind (and perhaps his soul). You can’t make that determination through fossil remains. Even if the body were perfectly preserved you wouldn’t be able to make such a declaration.
“It seems to me that what makes a being “human” is not so much his body, but his mind (and perhaps his soul). You can’t make that determination through fossil remains.”
Are you suggesting that there were human like creatures around before God created Adam, only without souls?