<<(I don't remember who wrote my subject line -- it was the title of some
published work a number of years ago, and I think it's appropriate for the
current debte about what characteristics of hominids would qualify them to
be considered men)>>
The book is by one of my favorite writers, Mortimer Adler. I recommend it to
all (especially in this current debate about full humanity). Adler, of course,
was the force behind the Great Books series, the Syntopicon, and the author of
such books as "How to Think About God" and "Truth in Religion." He became a
Christian in his eighties.
<<I tend to be in Glenn Morton's camp on this one: it seems reasonable to me
to look at clues in the sites these beings occupied and to regard evidence
of art, worship, sophisticated problem solving, communication, etc. as at
least circumstantial evidence that these beings were human.>>
But do you believe, as Glenn does, that these were FULLY human, in the sense
we are today? With the capacities the Bible indicates? Do you believe these
humans were farming four million years ago? Building boats? Communing and
entering covenants with God?
Jim