Hello everyone On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Horse <[email protected]> wrote: > According to current theory/evidence (dependent on who you read): > Humans didn't evolve from apes - apes and humans had a common ancestor. > Apes and hominids are thought to have diverged about 7 million years ago.
Yes, exactly... Craig's notion of humans evolving from apes is a common misunderstanding of the theory of evolution and one creationists use all the time to discount it. > > And when you say human, do you mean homo sapiens or earlier instances of > humans (Neanderthal, Cro-magnon etc.) because there have been 20-some > different 'species' of 'humans' in the last 7 million years or so - again > dependent on who you read). These species are, apparently, distinct from > apes. As you say, it depends on the classifications of who you read. I read some scientific articles that claim Neanderthal man died out completely leaving no genetic traces while other just as learned articles claim they crossbred with homo sapiens migrating out of Africa and anyone of European ancestry carries remnants of Neanderthal in their genetic makeup. > > So not only is it quite reasonable that 'Ape' is a concept, but it is just > as reasonable that 'Human' is a concept too. > It all depends on what you need to achieve through classification. Of course "ape" is a concept. Sometimes I wonder if Craig is really Rick Perry incognito. Thank you Dan Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
