<<She [Mary Leakey] believes it is manmade and that it is art. So you know
more about this than her?>>
Why don't we go together and ask her if this was of the same kind and
quality as, say, the art of the cave of Lascaux, and indicative of exactly
the same quality of being. While we're at it, let's ask her if she thinks
modern man sat on his artistic duff for 4.5 million years.
Shall we? I really want you with me on that outing.
BTW, I missed where she called it "art." Where was that, Glenn? I did see
where she said an "anthropomorphic interpretation" is "open to question."
Where was the word "art" in there? I must have missed it.
<<Not at the same rate, but where in the Bible does it say that man must be
constantly innovative and progressive in order to be human? Where?? You
seem to act as if this is the end all and be all of the definition of
spirituality. It isn't.>>
It is:
"In all evolution there is no transformation, no 'quantum leap,' to compare
with this one. Never before has the life-style of a species, its way of
adapting, changed so utterly and so swiftly. For some fifteen million years
members of the family of man foraged as animals among animals. The pace of
events since then has been explosive...an instant on the evolutionary time
scale." [John E. Pfeiffer -The Emergence of Society- pp. 28-29]
"Homo sapiens, however, is emphatically not an organism that does what its
precesessors did, only a little better; it is something very--and
potentially very dangerously--different. Something extraordinary, if
totally fortuitous, happened with the birth of our species...the true
enigma of human evolution." [Tattersall-The Fossil Trail- p. 246]
Your record of "humanity" looks nothing like this. Why is that? Because it
is not a record of HUMANity.
The cheese is, er, melting.
Jim