Human evolution; new anthropological info (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, April 03, 2020, 13:31 (1693 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: I say God's decision, but He won't tell us His reasoning. Now let us guess....

dhw: 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.

DAVID: Try this possibility about my in-charge God: He set the evolution of Hominins and Homos in high drive just as in the Cambrian Explosion.

What do you mean by “set it in high drive”? Your theory all along has been that each step and each innovation was either preprogrammed 3.8 billion years ago or personally dabbled. The latter means he designed each one individually.

DAVID: The experiences of many different homo types in many different environments with their sexual intermingling gave the final sapiens all the various immune and environmental tolerance abilities they would need to go forward in living successfully.

And so your God, who only wants H. sapiens and is all-powerful and can create whatever he wants whenever he wants, has to preprogramme (3.8 billion years ago) or dabble not only 3.X billion years’ worth of non-human life forms, econiches, natural wonders etc. (including the Cambrian explosion) but also various types of hominins and homos before the programming or dabbling of the only species he wants to create. No wonder you tell us we shouldn’t try to work out his reasons – though you think providing food for 3.X billion years’ worth of non-human organisms explains everything.

QUOTE (from “erectus info”: "Combined with other evidence, this leads them to argue that the site reflects a period of transition in southern Africa driven by climatic variability, with endemic species such as Australopithecus going extinct, while new migrants – Homo and Paranthropus – moved in.

DAVID: Another new find that supports the idea of a hominin/homo evolutionary explosion.

Indeed, and the bigger the explosion, the more difficult it is to believe that your all-powerful God started out wanting only one species (apart from enough other life forms to provide H. sapiens with food). The explosion supports the idea of different species evolving to cope with different environments. Your theory once again raises the question of if or why your God created different environments.