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If we know so little, can we really say with any certainty that it happened?

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enough to say that, yes, IMO.

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This just shows how dodgy human's dating methods are - afterall, the child could have just drank a lot of coca cola.

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Nonsense, unless by some bizarre coicidence decay due to coke's acidity looks exactly like abbrasive damage. Which I seriously doubt, having seen a tooth dissolved in coke.

But you can;t possibly know that, Mike - after all, you were not there at the time. It's just a THEORY that there was no coca cola 13-18,000 years ago.

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and not exercising dominion over the animals properly.

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I think the animals would be hard pressed to think of any aspects of "dominion" we have failed to exercise as vigorously as possible.Remember we wer enot given responsibility for care of the animals, but rather dominion. If we wish to put them all to the sword, we can. God gave them to us.On intelligence:
Personally, I doubt that intelligence can ever be a fitness-reducing element. The principle of all these data systems is to extract meaningful, useful information from the array of signals. I canl;t see how improved clarity of comprehension can be detrimental to an organism.It may well be true that its marginal benefits outweigh the calorie budget costs required; cost benefit relationships still apply. the more intelligence you have, the less they apply.This message has been edited by contracycle, 10-29-2004 07:20 AM