[asa] Modern Humans and H. Erectus -- TLF!

Browsing the magazine rack at Barnes & Noble last night on a latte run with
my daughter, I noticed this story in Scientific American, reporting on a
genetic study that suggests modern humans may have intebred with Homo
Erectus: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=lovers-not-fighters ("TLF,"
for those of you without teenage daughters, is text message lingo for "true
love forever"). The study, of course, is highly controversial, and the
story suggests various possible flaws with the genetic analysis. But it's
intruiging when we think about how our Biblical theological anthropology
relates to our biological physical anthropology. Could "imago dei" man have
interacted with, and romanced, other races of men whose theological story we
don't have and who have long ago gone extinct?

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Received on Tue Feb 26 10:12:53 2008