Posted on 11/02/2001 9:48:15 AM PST by MooCollins
Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
"Modern man is a direct decedent of Cro-Magnon man, and for a period of roughly 3-4 million years, Cro-Magnon and Neanderthals coexisted in relative peace".
Oh? What resource are you quoting? And if you have a good resource, what does the resource rely upon for this factual statement? Did the Cro-Mags train and use the Neans for their pets, farm animals and the like? Or like animals in the wild did they get along with each other like a cat and a dog living in the same house? Did they understand each other? Did they communicate with each other? Did the Neans cry when they realized that the Cro-Mags were the chosen ones to carry out the evolution of mankind?
During the centuries after it became established in Europe, Christianity constantly battled with the powers of the State, which always wanted to take it over and sometimes did (witness Henry VIII). However, Christian philosophers gave considerable thought to this matter, and a very clear distinction was made between the powers and sphere of the spiritual rulers and that of the secular rulers. Naturally, human nature being what it is, and the temptation to power being what it is, both sides frequently exceeded their limits. But fundamentally, Christianity is not meant to replace the secular government, rulers or legal system. Islam, on the other hand, is meant to do all of these things.
The bourgeois revolution that was the Reformation was the culmination of centuries of Christian thought about free will, the empowerment of the individual, and even the status of women. Islam, on the other hand, does not have the theoretical foundation to even consider these matters.
The supposed moments of glory of Islamic culture all came when Muslims had overrun other cultures and before they had extinguished the genius of those particular cultures: the law and philosophy and mathematics of the Near East and what was left of Roman civilization. In fact, in some cases, such as that of Spain, the initial Muslim invaders (from the caliphates) were ousted by other, more radical and more literalist Muslims (Berbers from North Africa) who regarded the former group as too liberal.
I think that in many was, the analysis we read above was a good one. But I think that there are other issues, fundamental to Islam itself and not to a "corruption" of it, that are behind the crisis we are facing today.
Not true. The purpose was to regain control of the "Holy Land" which had been overrun by Muslims. Christianity has never (except perhaps arguably the Inquisition, an anti-Christian action if ever there was one) conquered by the sword.
Madeline Murray O'Hare is that you? I thought you were dead.
University of Texas at Houston, 1996
Extinction of Neanderthals
Kathleen Gibson, Ph.D.,
professor of basic science at the Dental Branch, has developed a new theory about the decline and extinction of Neanderthals. (Photo by Russell Wylie. Copyright 1996 The University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center)
In her paper, "The Biocultural Human Brain, Seasonal Migrations, and the Emergence of the Upper Paleolithic," Gibson applies, for the first time, comparative data on primate and human cognition to an analysis of the fossil and archeological record. These data suggest that "both Neanderthals and early anatomically modern humans would have possessed an essentially modern cognitive suite," meaning that they had comparable "interacting, mutually reinforcing neurological capacities." The developing human brain is "biocultural" because manifestations of human intelligence vary greatly in accordance with cultural input.
Although Neanderthals and modern humans were distinct populations for at least 60,000 or 70,000 years, perhaps longer, they had shared three to four million years of evolutionary history. Comparable brain size and structure, and the ability to make more complex tools, provide evidence that the cognitive abilities of the two groups were very similar. What set the two groups apart was a technological and a social revolution, not a biological one, Gibson said.
I do not however claim to know whether the good professor is correct or not....
No matter who delivers the most devastating deathblows to come, mankind will always remember that the seed of this terrible death was born from within the faith of Islam and for this Islam shall never be forgiven. All across the globe, mankind will remember what shall be called the great Islamic death and that such horror must never happen again.
I agree. Few religions promote as much fanaticism and subjugation as does Islam. Their history is riddled with the vicious murders of non-Muslim and Jews. Few areas of the world have not suffered as a result of Islamic aggression and imperialism.
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