Debate Is Fueled on When Humans Became Human

New York Times ^ | February 26, 2002 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

[Ol' Sparky]

What a silly article, typical of the New York Times. The theory has more holes than a dozen doughnuts and, not surprisingly, a biased, left-wing newspaper rambles on like evolution is fact. No, evolution is a lame theory without a sufficient fossil record that contradicts scientific observation throughout human history (like in regard to mutations).

[My2Cents]

The first human ancestors appeared between five million and seven million years ago

That pins it down....And is that all that distinguishes humans from the rest of the animal world: the fact we walk on two legs?

The answer to the question is easy: Our ancestors became human when God breathed His spirit into them, making them living souls. This is what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal world. Any attempt to find a different definition of "human" always fails.

[lavaroise]

How about: when people became liberal and less than animals.

[RightWhale]

"The earliest Homo sapiens probably had the cognitive capability to invent Sputnik,"

They were just like us. But were they organized enough to do more than try to keep body and spirit together?

[PatrickHenry]

Ping.

[PatrickHenry]

Ping.

[balrog666]

Push it back to 70,000 years and we have the Tuva eruption and a possible explanation for the evolution of real thinking as a tool for survival.

[Random Access]

They, too, moved out of Africa...

I be African-American. Give me something, NOW.

[dead]

They're operating with a hair trigger.

[onedoug]

What would constitute a sufficient fossil record? ...Uh, taking in uniformitarianism
and cross-cutting relationships, of course.

[ThinkPlease]

interesting post placemarker.

[cracker]

Ahhhh don't bother. He's still upset that his old B&W TV showed shades of grey. The world was a simpler place before then.

[Pete]

They're operating with a hair trigger.

Huh? YOU posted the article.

Let's see. You post an article. Complain when someone responds who disagrees with you. Set out to ridicule them all the while giggling with your freeper buddies. Quite a passtime you have going.

Slow life or none at all?

[dead]

Let's see. You post an article. Complain when someone responds who disagrees with you. Set out to ridicule them all the while giggling with your freeper buddies. Quite a passtime you have going.

Not as much fun as making up facts and imagining the unheard giggles of people you’ve never met, oddball.

You know, everybody is laughing at you and talking behind your back. I can hear them, can you?

[cracker]

I will be a little surprised if Europe turns out to the home of this cultural revolution. For starters, Europe is better researched only because it has been explored for so much longer. It is only comparatively recently that we have been able to explore Africa, and Africa is a far larger continent with lots of remote and inaccessible (to us) regions that may harbor extensive evidence of human origins.

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[billybudd]

What are the "holes" in the theory? It seems pretty reasonable to me. Evolution is not a "theory" - it's natural process which happens constantly. Maybe you'd like to question specific theories about the way humans developed, but to just claim that evolution doesn't exist is silly. What do you think happened for millions of years on this earth? Everything just stood still, and all of a sudden, humans pop up?