So here's the thing. Human designers of anything, reuse, recycle the same basic building blocks and concepts to continually produce different and newer designs. For me, assuming a creator, it is no surprise that the forms of life we see bear resemblance to one another when examined at the DNA level. It, being a code, can be be used to construct and program a large variety of things.
When it comes to Neanderthals or any other fossil, all we really have the right to say is that it's a species which looks somewhat similar to other species, but not that it is an ancestor of any other species. We just do not know that. I said I wasn't going to belabor this again and I won't. So I'm stopping now. Tom C. ----Original Message Follows---- From: Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: OT: Snowflake Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:15:20 -0400 On Oct 27, 2006, at 10:15 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> I'm quite convinced that we have got most of the history/evolution of >> humans wrong. We've made great, sweeping statements based on a >> ridiculously small amount of evidence. And we've ignored evidence >> when it doesn't fit our preconceptions. > > Yeah. Douglas Adams got it right. We are the descendants of telephone > sanitizers, middle managers and cuticle adorners stranded on this > rock intentionally to rid civilization of their superfluity. Well, that's pretty unlikely. My comment was serious. I think we are obviously of earthly origin because our DNA is so close to apes, particularly chimps and bonobos. I just think the time scale in the usual evolutionary tree is all wrong. I think modern humans are much older than current theories propose. There are anomalous fossils that would indicate this. We're told modern humans appeared a couple hundred thousand years ago. I think that number needs another zero at minimum. Last week we learned from Neanderthal DNA that the Neanderthals were much closer to chimps than we are. I've thought for some time that the standard reconstructions of Neanderthals "humanize" them far too much, and more likely they were covered with hair like apes. Maybe more detailed analysis of their DNA will confirm this. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
