First Creationism, Then Darwinism, Now... ID?

[Guest gthureson]

Humans are built for long distance running, actually.  There is not a land animal on earth that a human could run down.   In a sprint, they will open distance, true.   But in endurance, a human will wind it and chase it into the ground.

 

And as far a 'reliance on technology', well, thats a neat little evolutionary trick, isn't it...figuring out that you can use tools to make many jobs like killing food easier.

 

Once you have figured out that you can whack things over the head with large objects and they die quicker than when you try and use your hands and teeth, you and your buddies will soon figure out that you can take on large prey herd animals rather than just scavenging and climbing up trees to eat leaves.

 

Long before the advent of firearms, IT technology or insurance salesman, humans had placed themselves at the top of the food chain.   Yes, there are animals that can kill a human quite quickly, but take a look at the extinct and endangered species lists and try and tell me that humans are not the biggest predator on the planet.

 

One misconception that people have is that 'humans evolved from monkeys'.  No, that is not what the theory says at all.  What is says is that humans and other primates are related species.  So way back on the evolutionary track, when mammals managed to outlast the great reptiles, there was likely proto-primates.   And some of those, given the correct environment and survival neccessities, adapted to them with tool use and the development of higher brain functions.

 

I would say humans decended from something more on the ape line of things, not monkeys.   Figuring out how to hunt with tools means easier protein, less time the brain is spending to figure out sheer survival and allow it to branch off into other areas.   Easier protein means you can also shed much of the muscle that is no longer needed to kill prey and is keeping you from being able to run down that bison you and your pals just speared.

 

I'm also with the theorists that say homo sapien modernus developed parallel with other species of humans, and much like any other species in competition for territory, food, and the rest...they got wiped out.

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[Guest DrTom]

"... but take a look at the extinct and endangered species lists and try and tell me that humans are not the biggest predator on the planet."

 

Since over 90% of the species that have ever gone extinct did so before the ascent of man, that's not a good reason to nominate himans as the planet's biggest predator.  We probably are, but driving other species to extinction isn't how we got there.