Are We Primitive?
I was reading a site on evolution today and found the following, (taken from http://www.onelife.com/evolve/manev.html):
Homo habilis was called the handy man because tools were found with his fossil remains. This species existed between 2.4 and 1.5 million years ago. The brain size in earlier fossil specimens was about 500cc but rose to 800cc toward the end of the species life period. The species brain shape shows evidence that some speech had developed. Habilis was about 5' tall and weighed about 100 pounds. Some scientists believe that habilis is not a separate species and should be carried either as a later Australopithecine or an early Homo erectus. It is possible that early examples are in one species group and later examples in the other.
The site went on to talk about the different species of humans and how they have evolved. Today we, Homo sapiens sapiens, have a brain size of around 1300cc, if I remember this correctly. We are more advanced today and look back and study the previous species of man and think of how primitive they were. Well evolution has not stopped by no means, so in years to come will some new species of man be digging up our remains and studying us and thinking that we are primitive. Also will mankind continue to grow in size and intellect or will evolution remove man and replace him with something else?
Also there are those that do not believe in the evolution of man, for God made man and commanded him to go and populate, so here we are. If that is your belief than you know that there is an end for man, for we are on this earth to test our faith and that the end is coming.
Either way you look at it, man could most certainly be evolving, whether it be just a more intelligent human or a spiritual being.
But enough of that, back to my original thinking. Are we primitive? I think yes, in years to come the "future man" will look back on our time and think "how could a human live like that?" So go out and live life and remember, we're just a small pebble in the endless road of evolution....
Homo habilis was called the handy man because tools were found with his fossil remains. This species existed between 2.4 and 1.5 million years ago. The brain size in earlier fossil specimens was about 500cc but rose to 800cc toward the end of the species life period. The species brain shape shows evidence that some speech had developed. Habilis was about 5' tall and weighed about 100 pounds. Some scientists believe that habilis is not a separate species and should be carried either as a later Australopithecine or an early Homo erectus. It is possible that early examples are in one species group and later examples in the other.
The site went on to talk about the different species of humans and how they have evolved. Today we, Homo sapiens sapiens, have a brain size of around 1300cc, if I remember this correctly. We are more advanced today and look back and study the previous species of man and think of how primitive they were. Well evolution has not stopped by no means, so in years to come will some new species of man be digging up our remains and studying us and thinking that we are primitive. Also will mankind continue to grow in size and intellect or will evolution remove man and replace him with something else?
Also there are those that do not believe in the evolution of man, for God made man and commanded him to go and populate, so here we are. If that is your belief than you know that there is an end for man, for we are on this earth to test our faith and that the end is coming.
Either way you look at it, man could most certainly be evolving, whether it be just a more intelligent human or a spiritual being.
But enough of that, back to my original thinking. Are we primitive? I think yes, in years to come the "future man" will look back on our time and think "how could a human live like that?" So go out and live life and remember, we're just a small pebble in the endless road of evolution....
posted by Tanis at 1:48 PM
1 Comments:
With the way that the human body is designed, it isn't really possible that we could have evolved into what we are today, beginning with being monkeys or whatever. There is too much *evidence* of intelligent design. That is why there are so many doctors and scientists to try and figure out how the human body works. The human body can actually heal itself! We are not primitive. IMHO. : )
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