Hi Glenn, you wrote:
>Hi Dick,
> >What was missing from Catal Huyuk was the evidence of animal sacrifice
> >seen in excavations of middle eastern civilizations that flourished after
> >7000 years ago. There were no alters, no grooved stones to run off the
> blood so
> >it could be collected instead of spilling on the ground and drawing flies.
> >It is this kind of ritualistic, wholesale animal sacrifice to appease
> the gods or
> >to atone for sins that is missing prior to 7000 years ago.
>
>Woah, Dick, don't go leaping to conclusions. I just presented many cases
>which show all signs of being animal sacrifice and now without even
>discussing why those examples don't qualify, you simply repeat your
>falsified claim. You once made the claim that you were an 'evidence' sort
>of guy. Then discuss the evidence.
"Falsified"? I can't discuss what is missing, Glenn. And this isn't my point
anyway. What you seem to be looking for is some way to attach spirituality
to mankind who lived in antiquity. It isn't my concern, but I seem to get
drawn
in anyway. What I have tried to point out since I began is that Adam appears
as a late entry into the human race, not at the apex.
It isn't germane to my case whether Homo erectus stared at the nighttime
sky and contemplated his origin. Or whether he killed bears or arranged
skulls, or whether early modern Homo sapiens did it.
What you seem to want to imply is that this "spirituality" exists because all
hominids emanate from Adam. That's an argument that is DOA in my book.
Whatever spirituality may have been present before Adam was given his mission
is beside the point. I found your discussion of bears fascinating, as I
find much
of your research fascinating. I hope you continue to bestow on us the blessing
of your keen intelligence and the information you continually uncover. I
sincerely
mean that. (You could lighten up a little.)
But if you think Adam was an Australopithicine, who had apes for parents,
you won't get any support from me.
Dick Fischer - The Origins Solution - www.orisol.com
"The answer we should have known about 150 years ago"
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