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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: SGJ who wrote (7625)	7/10/2001 7:13:22 PM
From: Druss	of 28931

qcoman--I taught myself to make stone tools years ago. I gleaned some of the techniques and information on how to do it from some books. Some of the learning process was simply trial and error. However it is astonishing how much thought goes into creating an arrowhead, spear point, hand ax, or any other stone tool. Some of the early stone work is dazzling in its sophistication. The tools are made to a level of artistry that is far beyond functional needs. In the New World; Eden points, Folsom points, Sandia points, and Clovis points all indicate differing tool systems that were highly developed, sophisticated, and adapted to meet specific needs. In the Old World; Danish daggers and Egyptian daggers were superb examples of stone work done by masters. It is hard for me to accept that these were unconscious processes. No one alive has the level of skill to make a Danish dagger. Further they were not functional. When bronze daggers from the Middle East were traded up into the Denmark area the stone makers began creating stone versions of the bronze even down to the casting seam lines of the original. The stone ones began to show up in burial sites. The stone version was too thin and brittle to be used as a tool or weapon. The general consensus is the bronze daggers were so highly prized that on the death of the owner of one, a stone version was buried with him so the bronze could be kept. I cannot say at what point 'consciousness' became a human attribute. I am not even certain that it appeared with our species. I tend to think it does. (I think the evidence is fairly strong that Neanderthals may have lacked it). But I do think that our species had it and early on. The fossil record shows creativity and quick adaptations of tool kits and life styles to changes. All the Best Druss

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