Human evolution; new anthropological info (Introduction)

by dhw, Thursday, April 02, 2020, 12:48 (1478 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: It seems lots of different ancestors of different brain development were all living at the same times in Africa:
https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/more-clues-to-the-story-of-our-past?utm_source...

DAVID: the burst of human development in so many directions and types is sort of like the Cambrian Explosion. We can debate why this burst but it does not seem to be climate changes or oxygen levels, some of the obvious discussion points around the Cambrian. I say God's decision, but He won't tell us His reasoning. Now let us guess....nothing humanoid, please.

Daft! You tell us that “We can only know his logic is like ours” and he probably has thought patterns etc. like ours, and then you ask for explanations that will not involve logic and thought patterns like ours! I will keep my theist’s hat on for the sake of argument, in which case of course it’s God’s decision. Why all the different forms of homo? Either he was experimenting, or he had set in motion a mechanism that enabled all organisms to work out their own ways of survival. And so once the human line had begun, it branched out as different sets of humanoids and homos found their own means of coping with the environment. How big their brains grew may have depended on the sort of activities they performed, since we know from the modern brain that it changes according to what tasks it is made to perform – though you would rather ignore this aspect of modern science since it conflicts with your theory that God has to preprogramme or dabble every variation. If you can’t find a logical explanation of your own but reject the logic of these two explanations because they don’t fit in with your image of God or your interpretation of his purpose, then please acknowledge the possibility that either your image of God or your interpretation of his purpose might be wrong.