The difference of Man; human origin? (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, September 29, 2013, 17:17 (4074 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: The fossil record is very sparce. We really don't have a direct line record of how H. sapiens arrived from the past:-http://salvomag.com/new/articles/salvo26-science-faith/has-science-shown-that-we-evolve...-QUOTE: "Despite the constant drumbeat of media stories announcing the discovery of the latest "missing link," the evidence shows that human-like forms appear abruptly in the fossil record, without any fossils connecting us to our alleged ape-like evolutionary ancestors. This contradicts the expectations of neo-Darwinian evolution and suggests that unguided evolutionary mechanisms do not account for the origin of our species."-Is this any different from the mystery of the Cambrian Explosion? When and how did specialized organs appear from nowhere? When and how did one species become another? All we have to go on are the similarities between older and younger species, plus the fact that we do not know of any form of life that does not descend from a preceding form of life. We do not understand the mechanism that accounts for the origin of ANY species, but if that mechanism was guided, then so was the mechanism that produced the eagle, the elephant, the ant and the duck-billed platypus. Some folk believe it all happened by chance, some folk believe their God made every species separately, some folk believe their God preprogrammed zillions of innovations into the very first organisms, some folk believe "intelligent cells" worked out their own designs, and some of us don't know what to believe.