Were Cro-Magnons smarter than current humans?
Cro-Magnon, Neanderthal, and so on, have never existed.
None of the hypotheses that are related to Darwin's common descent /Tree of Life hypothesis can be applied to daily life. So, none of these hypotheses is scientifically proven.
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“None of the hypotheses that are related to Darwin's common descent /Tree of Life hypothesis can be applied to daily life. So, none of these hypotheses is scientifically proven.”
The insulin i take is created by putting human DNA in one-celled creatures to make them sweat out insulin.
You can deny it, but there's evidence of them. And did you know that Cro-Magnon is actually... us?
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Let me guess, you got tired of people saying “If you don’t believe in science, then why are you using the internet?” and instead chose to only believe in science which has a direct, obvious-to-the-layman connection to everyday technology? Gee, how generous of you.
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And not a new approach of course, I've seen some books designed for homeschooling (and perhaps some religious private schools) from imprints associated with the Discovery Institute. These include faith statements everywhere mixed in, pseudohistory or cherry picked exaggerations as well as claims like that any "historical science" must be rejected, because it uses inference to reach conclusions that contradict "God's word"... But just mathematics is fine.
Fun fact: Conservatives and the right seem to prefer applied sciences in general over other, more theoretical sciences. The scientific field with the highest amount of conservatives is engineering for example. This might have multiple reasons, for example that purely applied sciences don’t lead to discoveries that might endanger someone’s worldview (this is why in many more theocratic islamic states engineering is the overwhelmingly favored science in universities) and the fact that public opinion on “purely theoretical” sciences is always relatively low in comparison (too complex, doesn’t create anything to use, buy or make life easier, at least that’s what many seem to think), while engineers are looked upon favorably in most cultures (which sometimes leads to them developing Dunning-Kruger symptoms of overestimating their own competence).
That aside, we have applied the theory of evolution in many fields, not just biology (where we have shown evolutionary processes in the lab multiple times already by the way): In informatics for example, evolutionary algorithms are used for self-optimization. We even used selection (unknowingly) before Darwin ever came up with his theory, that’s what domestication and breeding is all about. So yeah, what you are saying is bullshit OP.
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