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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (21559)2/25/2012 8:49:45 PM
From: r.edwards1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 69300
 
The most important, but yet, Just a basic question that you might could help me with....

Setting up the strawman that the origin of the mental capacities and the moral sensibilities of humans cannot be explained by natural selection is caused by ignorance & simple minded thinking . There's deep time evolutionary processes that would start slowly after enormous gradual steps with earliest most primitive origins that lead up to the higher vertebrates and larger brained mammals .

... why didn't... these other, higher vertebrates and larger brained mammals , do the same in developing gnostic skills ? ....... if its a .. deep time evolutionary processes that would start slowly after enormous gradual steps with earliest most primitive origins that lead up to the higher vertebrates and larger brained mammals . ...




that there can be seen and many scientists agree that there was an explosion of human consciousness that would include moral & ethical ideas but think for a moment of the historical context of human evolution itself . Its believed that human ancestor's populations remained in very low steady state numbers for the longest time until slowly that advent of tool developement leads finally to successful transition to settlements of agricultural based living