Genetic Variation (Introduction)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Sunday, September 26, 2010, 20:03 (5171 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

B-M: There is much evidence to suggest that our ancestors that were living in the biblical time frame were far more advanced than we give them credit for-I think we do give credit, particularly to the Babylonian astronomers and the Greek geometers and philosophers for example.-B-M: With all of our technology we have not been able to recreate some of the wonders that they achieved without it. -Such as ?-B-M: Without our technology, they made cosmological predictions that have withstood the test of time. -If you are referring to the Sumerian/Babylonian/Greek astronomy, such as the estimation of the phenomenon of precession I would agree they did a good job. However if you are referring to some interpretation of the creation story in Genesis, definitely not!-B-M: They were not un-evolved versions of us. They were bigger, faster, stronger, and I suspect smarter, than we are. -The evidence surely is that humans in the past were smaller than we are today. That is the general trend. You only have to compare the heights of doorways in everyday dwellings. Faster and stronger and more alert as a general average, quite probably, since they lived in more dangerous environments. -But if we're talking about human evolution we have to go back much further in time than recorded history.

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