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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grandk who wrote (12301)	5/13/2002 6:32:00 PM
From: epsteinbd	Respond to of 28931

You do not subscribe to theories that man has "evolved"... So, isn't Lucky (the one in the Sky, with Diamonds) actually living her eternity and stardom in the Musée de l'Homme, Trocadero, Paris, a three million eight hundred thousand years old common grand aunt of ours, mine only and not yours ??? "(:?) Cmon Homo Sapiens, stop acting like a Homo Neandertalis. You can make fire with your hands and brain, can't you ?Now if you did make some, sorry, it did change you... and that's why you are out of that mythological Eden. Now I do understand how good it will feel to crawl back in. Even me, on some days, when I read many of your posts, if my lady is not around, I may be tempted to feel a tendency that may sense that there, just may, be a slight possibility there'd be more to it. But only because your posts are so human...

To: Grandk who wrote (12301)	5/14/2002 10:20:08 AM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 28931

I believe that we can take a man that walked the earth thousands of years ago, raise him in our culture, and you would not be able to pick him out of a thousand individuals with the same mental capacity. You are likely right. When Darwin formulated the concept of evolution through natural selection he was a true pioneer. Consequently although he got the big picture correct he got many of the details in error. This is primarily because he was ignorant of genetics, the geology of contenental drift, and the actual age of the Earth. Another factoid that has only come to light with the analysis of DNA relationships is that humans went through at least two periods in which the total number of people were greatly restricted. Only about 10,000 humans survived the first (unknown) event while even less undertook the migration out of Africa which was a second genetic bottleneck event. Because of this humans have much less genetic variation than would be expected of another mammal of similar size and reproductive habits. Variation is the raw material of natural selection and with less variation it takes more time for drifting changes to manifest itself. TP