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Coyote Member (Idle past 1429 days) Posts: 6117 Joined:
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This handsome fellow is dated at 30,000 years.
But the (unattributed) quote you included claims 14,000 years is the maximum. How do you account for this discrepancy? And for this evidence that fully modern humans were around 30,000 years ago? Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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Coyote Member (Idle past 1429 days) Posts: 6117 Joined:
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Shhhhh! I'm waiting for a response to my question. Don't tell, but we have fully human fossils going back well over 100,000 years. I want to lure the previous poster into an unfounded answer. But seeing as he's a creationist, that will probably happen no matter what I post, eh? Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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Coyote Member (Idle past 1429 days) Posts: 6117 Joined:
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From Wiki: The Toba supereruption (Youngest Toba Tuff or simply YTT[1]) occurred between 69,000 and 77,000 years ago at Lake Toba (Sumatra, Indonesia), and it is recognized as one of the earth's largest known eruptions. The related catastrophe theory holds that this supervolcanic event plunged the planet into a 6-to-10-year volcanic winter, which resulted in the world's human population being reduced to 10,000 or even a mere 1,000 breeding pairs, creating a bottleneck in human evolution. Some researchers argue that the Toba eruption produced not only a catastrophic volcanic winter but also an additional 1,000-year cooling episode. Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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Coyote Member (Idle past 1429 days) Posts: 6117 Joined: |
Your ideas about races and their origins are in error.
The classical races are adaptations to the environment (first), and based on descent groups (second). Doesn't matter what any ancient myths say. Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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Coyote Member (Idle past 1429 days) Posts: 6117 Joined: |
How do you explain the several hundred different Native American languages in California?
Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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Coyote Member (Idle past 1429 days) Posts: 6117 Joined: |
But some of the most important ones occurred much earlier:
(Click on the image to enlarge; those Acheulean handaxes were hot stuff for tens of thousands of years!) Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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Coyote Member (Idle past 1429 days) Posts: 6117 Joined: |
Here are some basics on the Herto skulls, about 160,000 years old: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1295624 There are a lot more examples out there, but learn a little about these first. Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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Coyote Member (Idle past 1429 days) Posts: 6117 Joined: |
Buz, nothing will satisfy you, will it?
I'm not going to do all your homework for you when you simply dismiss everything I provide to you. Yes, there were a lot of them. Look the details up yourself. Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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Coyote Member (Idle past 1429 days) Posts: 6117 Joined: |
You have the tree of life totally wrong. But that's a common mistake.
This is the correct one:
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Coyote Member (Idle past 1429 days) Posts: 6117 Joined: |
Sorry, your post is incoherent.
You seem to be letting religious belief supersede common sense and empirical evidence. Not a very practical thing to do. Human populations, for almost all of our history, have reacted to the forces of nature, the benefits of technology, the geographic spread of the populations, and a lot of other factors. It is only in the recent past that we have been able to significantly influence some of these factors. But what you are trying to tell us (I think) relies on some form of young earth belief. It's hard to tell. Could you try again, please? Maybe I have just misread what you posted. Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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Coyote Member (Idle past 1429 days) Posts: 6117 Joined: |
You are still posting gibberish. The evidence shows that there were early humans some 200,000 years ago in some parts of the world. There were earlier groups also within genus Homo going back some 2 million years, and non-Homo groups before that. The way that they multiplied started out identical to animals, but was gradually changed due to increasing culture and technology. The last 200 years has seen technology increase to be able to support much larger populations. Can you address these topics? Can you show me where any of this is incorrect? Because I still can't make out what you are trying to say. Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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Coyote Member (Idle past 1429 days) Posts: 6117 Joined:
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Sorry, no. The more different their languages are, and the more languages, the more time has elapsed since the people first occupied that area. The languages can readily be grouped into families and traced backwards, and the results of that linguistic research agree closely with evidence from DNA and archaeology. No intelligent designer needed; people are perfectly capable of spreading into new territories, and languages are known to diverge through time. As an example, try reading Chaucer in the original old English and see how well you do. That literature is only a little over 600 years old, with writing to help standardize and stabilize the language. But you knew all that. You just chose to believe ancient tribal myths instead of what the evidence shows. Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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Coyote Member (Idle past 1429 days) Posts: 6117 Joined: |
A couple of other factors that apply.
The limit to population is the amount of food at the leanest part of the year, not the average. This can be overcome to some degree by storage of food. As an example, you mentioned the Pacific Northwest; the fish from periodic runs were dried or smoked and stored for other parts of the year. Trade with neighboring groups was also critical. Folks in lowlying areas would have access to different resources than folks in higher elevations and trade would help to even out the annual fluctuations and the periodic shortfalls. Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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Coyote Member (Idle past 1429 days) Posts: 6117 Joined: |
This is absolute nonsense. Your ideas concerning population growth are just plain wrong, otherwise the earth would be covered with bacteria to the outer atmosphere. Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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