>From GL Good pick up Gabe. Yet just to be precise: Human Civilization (living in complex communities) is 6000 years old Homo erectus started about 3 million years go as hunter-gatherersH. erectus started moving out of Africa one million years agoH. sapiens started half a million years agoH. sapiens sapiens started half a million years ago. (nomadic life)Start of agriculture 10,000 years ago. As a topic of interest for many East African Goans here is an extract from Leakey's book.
"Close to three million years ago, on a campsite near the east shore of Kenya's spectacular lake Turkana, formerly Lake Rudolph, a primitive human picked up a water-smooth stone, and with a few skillful strikes transformed it into an implement. What was once an accident of nature was now a piece of deliberate technology, to be used to fashion a stick for digging up roots, or to slice the flesh of a dead animal. Soon discarded by its maker, the stone tool still exists, an unbreakable links with our ancestors. Together with many others, that tool is preserved in the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi." I will leave it to our resident-expert(s) on the "Human Soul" on Goanet to tell us when the human soul came into existence. Mortals like us live life day-to-day. And hope for "the best-of- tomorrow" in this world and the next. Regards, GL ---------------From: Gabe Menezes RESPONSE: Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old! Humanity as we know it is 6,000 years old. A slip of the tongue could lend you in deep sh*%? ------------------------From: Mervyn Lobo It is written in the Bible that only 144,000 people will be in heaven. Since planet earth is 6,000 years old and say a dozen or two dozen people - from the 55 million - who die each year are let into heaven, there are still a few available slots. However, I am perfectly content with life on this planet and will leave it to others to contend for a spot in heaven. Hell may also be the realization that one missed out on a good life on this planet.
