RE: A knockdown prophecy
September 8, 2022 at 10:04 am
(This post was last modified: September 8, 2022 at 10:33 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Those rare examples are super interesting. Raphanobrassica. We're told that to account for so much as the minute incremental changes of evolution by natural selection..in truth, we'd have to appeal to some supernatural guiding hand - but we can see that novel pairings of genetics are capable not only of speciation - but even cladogenesis. Believers hold out hope that they can simply include this in their "yes, that's how my god does it" - but that explanation concedes to the naturalists argument in it's entirety. That there are natural mechanisms through which things like speciation and cladogenesis can be achieved and my god uses them.
Modernity is defined in two basic ways. Anatomic modernity is when the bones of some (pre)historic population are identical (or very closely identical) to the bones of contemporary populations. Behavioral or cultural modernity is when we find recognizable artifacts of contemporary human behaviors and beliefs. Full modernity, thusly, is when the remains and the artifacts are recognizable as and to a contemporary human population.
The former we sometimes call early modern, because the difference between us appears to have been more in their behaviors than their anatomy. We hit that 300k to 200k ago - maybe more, maybe less. The latter parcel of traits or attributes doesn't show up until about 40-50k years go.
There was never a singular first anotomic or behaviorally or fully modern man. You can give that literally impossible non-entity any name you want, adam or steve, won't change a thing . This was a vast trend of co-concurrent biological and technological development in populations separated by both time and distance with multiple instances of independent construction, as in the case of bows.
But sure, if we're going to consider this seriously, lets just take any of the many fully modern human men that would have been alive in the earliest moments of full modernity - and we'll call one of them adam. Which one of them is your Adam, Root? That...right there, is a very testable proposition. Anything you have to say on the matter will provide further testable propositions. Will you find the resolution of any of them to be informative? Or will this be another one of those knock down prophecies and scientific miracles in magic book that neither informs nor dissuades you?
Modernity is defined in two basic ways. Anatomic modernity is when the bones of some (pre)historic population are identical (or very closely identical) to the bones of contemporary populations. Behavioral or cultural modernity is when we find recognizable artifacts of contemporary human behaviors and beliefs. Full modernity, thusly, is when the remains and the artifacts are recognizable as and to a contemporary human population.
The former we sometimes call early modern, because the difference between us appears to have been more in their behaviors than their anatomy. We hit that 300k to 200k ago - maybe more, maybe less. The latter parcel of traits or attributes doesn't show up until about 40-50k years go.
There was never a singular first anotomic or behaviorally or fully modern man. You can give that literally impossible non-entity any name you want, adam or steve, won't change a thing . This was a vast trend of co-concurrent biological and technological development in populations separated by both time and distance with multiple instances of independent construction, as in the case of bows.
But sure, if we're going to consider this seriously, lets just take any of the many fully modern human men that would have been alive in the earliest moments of full modernity - and we'll call one of them adam. Which one of them is your Adam, Root? That...right there, is a very testable proposition. Anything you have to say on the matter will provide further testable propositions. Will you find the resolution of any of them to be informative? Or will this be another one of those knock down prophecies and scientific miracles in magic book that neither informs nor dissuades you?
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