[thomaswest]

"quite quickly" is a very fuzzy-minded term. The age of the earth is vastly longer than a human life-span. Humans only developed during the last 2.5 million years. Human language--speech--developed perhaps 250,000 years ago (informed estimates range from 100,000 to 500,000 years ago.

Before speech involving words and primitive grammar, there was posture, arm language, facial expressions, as means of communication.

The {poof} notion of geology and biology is long ago discredited.

[ClearCase_guy]

Human language--speech--developed perhaps 250,000 years ago (informed estimates range from 100,000 to 500,000 years ago.

IMO, this is why some contemporary science gets such a bad reputation. You state an estimate range going back perhaps as much as 500,000 years. But not 600,000? Not 700,000? No, no, but 500,000 is a definite possibility (more recent is more likely, of course, but the range of informed estimates goes back as much as 500,000 years).

And with all that, exactly how much evidence do you have for gestural communication within this timeframe? Any fossilized one-finger salutes?

Answer: You're guessing, conjecturring, and supposing. And you're calling it science.

[Finny]

Yeah, you can't help but be amused when someone refers to a 10,000 year-old ice core sample as having "long range" information on global climate history!

[norton]

"The {poof} notion of geology and biology is long ago discredited."

What?