[questions for "evolution proponents]
Why don't any ape type animals display a need to draw their history onto rock? [...]
How do you explain the non-existence of time? If you cannot explain it - does that make it false?
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I dunno, but I'll never get back the time I spent reading this idiot's post.
--oh, and writing this comment, too.
1.) Drawing history on a rock and who does it is meaningless to evolution.
2.) My guess is, the Messenger is under the impression that Point 1 is a key part of evolution, and goes on to say that SINCE it hasn't been "explained" by scientists, it and therefore evolution must be false.
Short answer- Smaller visual cortex than humans plus lack of materials. Monkeys have been trained to draw and use pictographs and symbolic language.
Longer answer - I believe drawing history on a rock was the end of human evoloution. Once we could store information in an abstract, nonverbal form a knowledge base could exist. From this knowledge base technique and eventually science. Then we could grow crops instead of gathering, raise livestock instead of hunting, makes spears instead of waiting to eveolve fangs and cure disease instead of outbreeding it.
1. Humans and apes share a common ancestor. Humans did not evolve from apes. The reason no apes write down their histories is that the world''s climate has chianged somewhat in the million or so years since humans first evolved, and in some instances some species of apes did not need to evolve in order to survive. Furthermore, even if they had evolved, writing only appeared about ten thousand years ago or so, so we would only see the emergance of "ape literacy" if you will after a very long time.
2. Secondly, the non existance of time can be explained. The concept of time is an abstract human invention meant to represent and establish a system for recording changes in the world around us.
Explain how God created the universe, then. You claim he did, but never give a process. Hell, you never even give a reason. By your logic, that makes your account false, too.
Time exists, to humans. So does love, or anger, or hate, or boredom, or beauty. Sure, they're all relative, and we cannot put any of them in a bottle and take it out later ....but they exist.
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Dr. Maud Pie would be very interested in that from Rapa Nui*; the composition of the stone used in the carving of the ancient Rongorongo glyphs, what material(s): perhaps other form(s) of stone were used in such, and the minute differences in stone used in this, and that used by the post-ancestor worship 'Bird man Cult' peoples.
...and Doctor Whooves would be able to answer your second question. /)^3^(\
*- As for the Moai there, she wouldn't consider finding the iconic heads there too tuff ! image
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