Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Mamzelle
I've always thought the most difficult problem of the evolutionists would be explaining why there isn't another species of human, similar to us in the same way that zebras are similar to horses. By rights, as complicated a mammal as we are, there ought to be a few in some out of the way places.

You don't naturally find zebras and horses in the same geographic area. There were, until recently (about 45,000 years ago, if I remember correctly), other species of hominids; at one point there were simultaneously fully-modern, or nearly so, humans in Africa, Neanderthals in Europe and the Middle East, and even a few surviving homo erectus in parts of Asia. Once homo sapiens began to spread out from Africa, the other species disappeared because they couldn't compete. (Neanderthals, who appear to have been very close to us in brainpower, hung around until quite recently.)

243 posted on 06/10/2003 4:38:42 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 233 | View Replies ]


To: Lurking Libertarian
re: There were, until recently (about 45,000 years ago, if I remember correctly), )))

And here I thought *I* was old.

Sure is a lot of wiggle room in these numbers. And usually when I'm shown a corpse of Bro, it's not even a whole limb or even a whole skull. I remember my first disillusionment with the evolutionists was when I actually found out how little in the way of corpus was in all this delecti--enormous theories built around such small holy relics. And that's a curious thing in and of itself--where're the bodies buried?

254 posted on 06/10/2003 5:10:43 PM PDT by Mamzelle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 243 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson