Gramsci wrote:

krakabash wrote:In the beginning Jesus created the Heavens and the Earth.

Actually God "the Father" created everything in week then invented the weekend to top it off, Jesus "the Son" came along a little later... but they are the same, not two gods or that would be polytheism and much more unrealistic than monotheism...[/quote

God "the Father" was Jesus all along.
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krakabash wrote:

Gramsci wrote:

krakabash wrote:In the beginning Jesus created the Heavens and the Earth.

Actually God "the Father" created everything in week then invented the weekend to top it off, Jesus "the Son" came along a little later... but they are the same, not two gods or that would be polytheism and much more unrealistic than monotheism...

God "the Father" was Jesus all along.

Dude... Spoiler Alert?

Gramsci wrote:

that damned fly wrote:wow. 30 pages of retarded.

It was important to "teach the controversy".

you mean teach the retarded?

*bump*

and behold! for he hath bumped the thread and reopen'd Pandora's toilet once more. But actually I had a fairly non-controversial thing to say/ask:

Lately I have found myself becoming obsessed with early human life, the origins of the contemporary homo species and all that. I'm no anthropologist and even less a scientist, I'm just some guy who's interested, you know. How did we get to the state where we could entertain abstract thought? How did language develop? I was reading about the actual history of the voice box in neanderthals today. Crazy shit. It seems that the basic vowel sounds that we use today may have been established 300,000 years ago. And them building all them tools and stuff..... wond'rous. I boggle before the wonders of natural history.

Anyhows, enough of my trite ramblings - what I wanted to know was, can anyone recommend any good books on the subject of the evolution of the human race - preferably ones vaguely comprehensible to a science fuckwit? Just a general history/discussion of theories talking through all the ideas about how language and thought developed would be ideal. Any tips would be muchos appreciated!

Ta x

I'm sure I could dig something up.

No pun intended.

simmo wrote:Lately I have found myself becoming obsessed with...the contemporary homo species...

You might want to start your research with this homo species:

Matt, you're a bigot and a brainwashed moron.

That joke was truly worthy of some obnoxious little 13 year old prick in the school classroom. You really are a dick.

But yes, Antero, I'd really appreciate any recommendations that come to mind!

simmo wrote:*bump*

and behold! for he hath bumped the thread and reopen'd Pandora's toilet once more. But actually I had a fairly non-controversial thing to say/ask:

Lately I have found myself becoming obsessed with early human life, the origins of the contemporary homo species and all that. I'm no anthropologist and even less a scientist, I'm just some guy who's interested, you know. How did we get to the state where we could entertain abstract thought? How did language develop? I was reading about the actual history of the voice box in neanderthals today. Crazy shit. It seems that the basic vowel sounds that we use today may have been established 300,000 years ago. And them building all them tools and stuff..... wond'rous. I boggle before the wonders of natural history.

Anyhows, enough of my trite ramblings - what I wanted to know was, can anyone recommend any good books on the subject of the evolution of the human race - preferably ones vaguely comprehensible to a science fuckwit? Just a general history/discussion of theories talking through all the ideas about how language and thought developed would be ideal. Any tips would be muchos appreciated!

Ta x

Simmo, I'm similarly interested in such things. The evolutionary development of themodern human seems to have been relatively quick. Any reading recommendations would be welcomed...perhaps you need a new thread for this.

I do know this, however...that We Are All Devo Now!

Cranius wrote: The evolutionary development the of modern human seems to have been relatively quick.

The past 10,000 have been the freakiest. At the end of the last Ice Age we were nothing more than hunter-gathers. Scientists now think that the last Ice Age probably ended in a matter of years. There seems to have been a critical mass in our brain power that has snowballed.

Humans are amazing... expect for Matt, he's just a cunt.