(October 14, 2011 at 8:37 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: Oh! You beat me to my own point; I was going to bring this up. Aborigines supposedly branched off 50,000 years ago, and yet if you adopt a baby from an Aborigine tribe your chances of teaching it advanced math are no less than if you adopt a baby from anywhere else in the world. In fact, physiologically speaking that baby would be no less perfect than babies anywhere else in the world. So it looks like humans have always been as intelligent as they are today, and have always been as physiologically adapted as they are today (Aborigines can donate blood and organs to Asians, Africans and Europeans- and vice versa).
They are still Homo Sapiens. The previous 'man' may have only had the capacity for quadratic equations and the one before that, simple math. Like I said, there is no way known today to pinpoint that aspect of evolution. Just because we have not the means to identify this particular variance, in no way does that stipulate "a sky-daddy did it".
Fortunately we have a time traveler amongst us and he was able to produce a specific date for you.
Next.
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God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
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