>> Jim Foley writes:
>> <<Jim, you said earlier that you thought my claim that this transition
>> probably took 1000's of years was "unreasonable". Why? I agree we
>> can't *prove* that it was naturalistic, but we similarly can't prove
>> that it wasn't.>>
>> See Stephen Jones's posts in this regard. One good quote from Eisley was:
>> "Each one of these major points demanded a multitude of minor
>> biological adjustments, yet all of this-change of growth rate,
>> lengthened age, increased blood supply to the head, moved apparently
>> with rapidity. It is a dizzying spectacle with which we have nothing
>> to compare."
Totally irrelevant. Eiseley was talking about evolution from apes or
australopithecines to modern humans, over millions of years. We were
talking about the sudden appearance of the Cro-Magnon culture over a
period of perhaps a few thousand years (see below). That appearance
involved no increase in brain size, growth rate, blood supply to the
head or any other anatomical change. Why is a naturalistic explanation
for this transition "unreasonable"? Modern cultures have arisen in far
less time.
This was the original exchange:
[JF]< I meant that the Cro-Magnon cultural burst
occurred roughly between 40 and 30 thousand years ago. We don't know
the exact timing, but it's reasonable to assume it may have taken some
thousands of years (not necessarily 10000 yrs).>>
[JB]I guess that's where we differ. It is NOT reasonable to assume
this, in my view.
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