RC writes: >Seems antiquity is loaded with examples of engineering and > architectural works that have us thinking that perhaps the > people of that age were intelligent beings and had not > degenerated which seems to contradict the Darwinian theorists.
I was taught to skin and tan a deer hide at the base of Mt. Graham in Arizona by a man with full facial tattoos. His name was Sonny. He stretched the skin on a frame of sticks and scraped it with a flint knife, after some time he then took the brains of the deer and boiled them, and soaked the skin in the brains. This tanned the skin and made the resulting leather very soft and supple. I asked him about how the aboriginal men knew about using the brain in this fashion. He said, probably from simple observation. Perhaps a man was sitting by the fireside eating the deer, and accidentally spilled some on the skin. Later, he noticed the resulting supple patch and acted accordingly. They were after all, us. Homo Sapien has changed very little since the first ones walked the earth 160,000 years ago or thereabouts. You could probably pass one of those first people on the street and not notice the difference. Study of the human genome corroborates the fossil evidence; all of modern man has a common heritage in Africa of that age. The genomic studies are quite new, and with the decoding of the human genome by Celera and the NIH the story of our creation can finally be read. These are exciting times, as I'm sure you will agree. This book is 160,000 years old, and tells us much which we have never known, for those courageous enough to read it. This book is written in every cell of our bodies, and was not written by the hand of a man. What would you call such a book? K.
