reply to post by Conclusion
Its all about faith. That is faith in the truth.
But that’s what I’m trying to find out, how do you define what is the truth? The post I originally quoted made it seem as though something can be
factually true for one person but not another dependent on their degree of belief. If that was the case then Father Christmas would really be coming
down people’s chimneys on Christmas eve but he isn’t.
reply to post by OhZone
Nature never gives its creatures more brain power than it needs to survive.
Natural processes will favour anything that is beneficial to the organism survival. That includes brain power.
Random variations in genes produce all sorts of effect, whether they stick around depends on whether it is helpful.
Likewise it never takes away what the creature does need.
Of course it does, if thick hair is required because of one environmental factor which is then removed those with thick hair will now not necessarily
be favoured and that feature will become diluted over many generations. (this relates to your point about strength)
We cannot survive in Northern climates in our natural state.
Of course we can, but our natural state includes the mental capacity to make tools and clothes.
Humans have been living in those Northern climates for more than 10,000 years.
There is no evidence that humans evolved on the African Plains.
The fossil record, the distribution of our known closest relatives and the distribution of earliest known human settlements points squarely at this
conclusion.
Do you have a source about the earliest known Homo Sapiens living in forested areas?
Of course there are competing theories such as the aquatic chimp hypothesis that would allow for this possibility.
Wouldn’t it be to our advantage to have it? Look at all the heavy work we have had to do and still have to do.
But we are fully capable of doing all that with our current abilities. Other great apes need to climb through trees, knuckle walk and do many other
things that humans do not do.
If we were to lose our technology and our tools thru some great catastrophe the human species would suffer massive die off for lack of ability
to cope with the environment and to find or grow food. The big brain would prove to be a big failure.
How would we lose our ability to make tools? That would require something to destroy large parts of the human brain all in one go, what natural
process other than disease could do that?
If you resort to disease as an explanation then your statement becomes “if the human race all contracted a debilitating brain disease then we would
all die out”. But that’s obvious.
All of you evolutionists are basing your beliefs on the artist’s renderings of the alleged creatures that comprise this supposed chain of
evolution. You have never seen the bones involved, and rarely any photo of them. Personally, I want more evidence than the imagination of some artist
working from a skull cap or a jaw bone.
lol that’s an incredibly simplistic view. The physiology of organisms for which we only have partial skeletons is not determined through artistic
licence, inferences are made by looking at known organisms and how they work. If all known organisms show a particular mark where a muscle attaches,
and a fossil jaw bone shows these same marks then we can safely infer that a muscle was present at this point.
I think you’ll find that where we only have the top of a skull or such few inferences are made beyond maybe “it’s a different species, and it
was probably around “this” big”.
Nebraska Man or Piltdown Man are not good examples because these were either hoaxed or wrongly classified in the early 20th century, long before
modern scientific methods and these cases were corrected. The modern scientific process is not the same as it was back then; it is far more
knowledgeable and rigorous. That’s not to say that mistakes don’t happen, but they are corrected and certainly an entire creature will not be
constructed from just one tooth.
Take away the super natural, because everything is totally natural, and you have ET’s who came down from “Heaven”. They created a hybrid
in their lab. Look up the Sumerian Tale of Creation.
How did the aliens come to be? And what about all other organisms on Earth? What about those that can still be observed to be changing?
[edit on 2-9-2009 by Mike_A]
