Did primitive man really Exist?
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I suppose that depends on your definition of primitive. If you are talking about people like Neanderthals they were not primitive at all. They had a family structure, pecking order within their community, they used tools (and invented new ones) and some were artistically developed. They were hunters/gatherers. Primitive by our present day standards, advanced creatures by their standards
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it makes perfect sense.  Man needed a way to explain the world back when we were primitive, but God's obsolete at this point in techonogical sophistication.
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If God is a myth then he cannot be from any planet since mythical characters by definition are not real.\n\nIf "in ancient myth" is removed from the question the answer is yes, if he exists, unless you believe God originates on this planet, which would seem to contradict most if not all deistic beliefs.\n\nMy point is that really, almost all conceptions of God are that he does not originate on earth, is therefore "from another planet", and thus an alien. The next question is, "are we aliens too?"
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It is a guess. \n\nI've seen pictures in National Geographic of a museum in Germany which has two statues, both Neanderthals. One is clean-shaven, with a good haircut and dressed in a 3-piece navy blue suit. He's carrying a briefcase. The other is the classic "Cave man" - long hair, beard, bear-skin toga, carrying a club. The contrast is striking. The one in the suit could probably walk through Manhattan at lunch time without getting stares.\n\nThe beard on most reconstructed prehistoric men is based on the fact that razors were hard to come by back then. You need a straight, sharp piece of metal to make a decent razor. It is physically possible to shave with an obsidian blade, but no one in their right mind would do it every day.\n\nThe long hair is another guess, again based on the fact that scissors are hard to make without metal. You could trim hair by laying it along an obsidian blade and whacking it with a soft stick (Some Amazon natives do this with their steel machetes) but you'd run the risk of shattering your blade.\n\nIf you mean the ice age ancestors, everything was hairier then - rhinos, elephants, horses - so our ancestors in the colder regions probably had pelts.
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Can there be any doubts? Aliens, of course. I want to know if Erich von Daniken is right when he says alien visitations have occurred in the ancient past.
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Absolutely none.  "Missing Link" or "Transitional species or fossils" have not yet been found.  Homo Sapiens Sapiens (modern men) have no connection to other species, contrary to what evolutionists would like us believe.  Unfortunately, most common textbooks on biology claims that there are hundreds of transitional fossils that have been found.  These so called evidences are uncomplete and therefore, unreliable.  SOme of the fossils that have been reconstructed are actually mixed bones of various species.  The Peking Man, was found out to be a hoax, being constructed from the bones of a man with arthritis and that of a pig.
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(I asked this almost identical question)\n\nA need - no.  Would religion still exist - yes.  Death is only one of the great unanswered mysteries that grants religion its power.\n\nThe first evidence of religious beliefs in early man seems to coincide with when people first began to mourn/revere the dead. This is a fairly significant turning point in social development.  It means people perceived the world of the living as a separate place from the world of the dead.  Around this same time, we were also struggling to understand the causes of natural phenomenon.\n\nThere is a fine, yet distinctive dividing line between directly sensing an impending rainstorm and knowing it's about to rain when you see the dark clouds rolling in, feel the drop in temperature, etc.  Once humans began to OBSERVE things and assign causality, the phenomenon known as critical thinking was born.\n\nUndoubtedly, smarter humans seized on the opportunity to explain events because it would grant them a superior position among their clan (more food, women, prestige, etc.)  The problem was, there were some things that our early, primitive brains just couldn't grasp, hence there were some things these early wise men just couldn't explain.  This was a big problem because anything unknown could be a potential threat.  FEAR was still the most instinctual feeling we had.  Fear kept us alive (as it does most animals) for millions of years, but comfort and pleasure were much more preferable, so fear would only be cast aside if there was an overwhelming sense of security.\n\nFaced with losing their privileged positions, these men had to think of explanations for all the phenomenon that were beyond their grasp in order to allay the clans fears, so in one fell stroke, the SUPERNATURAL WORLD was created.  Anything that couldn't be explained through direct observation COULD be explained through deities, demons, spirits, etc.  It was a perfect solution.  Of course, the wise men were the connection to the supernatural world, and ONLY THEY could make this connection.\n\nAs the centuries passed, the wise men coveted their (limited) knowledge, which was passed verbally from teacher to student, or father to son, but at the same, they never expanded on it.  It became DOGMA, and thus the first religions were born.  Since supernatural explanations worked so well, there was no reason to "rock the boat."  At the same time, through endless repetition, the wise men began to believe their own press.  Certainly there must be gods and spirits that don't want us to know certain things, otherwise we, the wisest men, would know them.  They believed there were questions that simply must not be asked, and the phenomenon known as TABOO was born.\n\nAs all this was taking place, the wise men (aka shaman, priests, spirit guides, medicine men) were beginning to understand that by organizing their beliefs, they could dispense them to the people as a means of CONTROL.  Theology became the first non-violent, systematic way to govern populations.  And, it was actually quite an effective means to control people for thousands of years.\n\nFortunately, you can't suppress human curiosity.  As hard as the theocracy's tried, they couldn't prevent the common man from questioning.  As pervasive a means of control as fear is, curiosity is still stronger.  Men (and women) wanted to know WHY.  Why is knowledge of the supernatural world reserved for the priests?  They began to think, "maybe its because there are NON-THEISTIC explanations for things, and our religious leaders don't want us to know them."  These people (naturalists) began, once again, to explore the natural world, and the more they studied, the more they learned that there WERE rational explanations for things.  Science was born.  \n\nSlowly, painfully, the scientific world emerged, evolved, and began to take us out of the dark ages of supernatural nonsense, and into the light age of logic
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the bible does not mention what we know as "cavemen" per se so there is not any conflict that I can see. Adam and Eve may have been simple characters in an allegory to illustrate a point or they may have existed, but who is to know what they looked like? Maybe they looked like what we call cavemen? If God made them in his own image than perhaps he looked like cavemen. we have no way of knowing since there were no accurate artists or cameras yet. The bible leaves out any description of adam and eve so we are left to imagine. So, being the egotistical beings we are, we imagine they looked like "us", (whatever the particular "us" looks like.) Blacks imagine they were black and jews imagine they were jewish looking.  (after all, they did make up the story and should be the stars) Caucasians usually depict Adam as some sort of white boy. the spansih prefer latino looking adam and eve.\nall we really know, if we are to believe the bible, is that they were made in the image of God. yet God is unknown and unknowable so we really know nothing except he is a burning bush or a bright light. How are we in that image? You tell me. I do not believe any of it as it is unbelievable to a thinking person. the story of man's creation as told by the so-called Gnostic religion seems to be more believable. At least it makes sense. But that does not address the question asked. \nCavemen or should I say "cave persons" are probably no longer extant (so far as we know) and we may actually be something else unrelated. There is still that old missing link problem that everybody conveniently forgets to mention. there is no clear connection in time to us and the thing we call a Caveman. \nFor all we know for sure, it may have been the forebearer of the yeti (abominable snowman) and not us. \n\nthe reason the bible must be accepted on "faith" is because it is full of conjecture and fairy tales and there is no evidence to show it is fact. Faith is just another way to say "unthinking".
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Yes\nand so the hairless ugly ape called Man created god in his own image...( man is an ape it is ownly our arrogant attitude that supposes otherwise. We are genetically closer to a chimpanzee then a gorilla is and they are both apes) I'm proud of being an noble Ape I would be ashamed if I was Christian
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you know. i thought closely about it, used some imagination i got this idea that maybe we are the result of not a product but we are the creation of an alien civilization. it could be that the aliens created us a million years ago from chimps. oyherwise how do you think that a monkey could get tdown from the trees and start making empires just in a few 1000 yrs considered the slow rate of evolution. the aliens must have intervened in some sort of way and made us. \n   \n    i came to this conclusion also due to historical records. you se there are many incidences where alien intevention is very obvious. for example:\n    in the ancient drawings and written records of some ancient tribes, vehicles very similar to modern day tanks n helicopters have been found. i am not exaggerating. i read this in a book on UFOs. so i think that aliens did ssomething to us in the past\n    and now i'm thinking that the so called gods of the anvient people were aliens themselves. the Great Flood mentioned in the Bible might have been caused by them because they might have made some mistake. there records of things like the holy grail which possess undescribable powers. an explosion very similar to a nuke explosion has been described in the Mahabharata. where could they have got nuclear warheads? so i think that we r the rsult of alien interventionn and not the result of a product.
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It is not possible that man knows everything so there is a strong possibility that these creatures do exist. I certainly hope so any way.
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Last I heard, Easter Island has nothing to do with early man at all. More recent studies are dating the constructions well within the second millenium. Wish I could remember where I read that, but I am sure it has something to do with environmental destruction. i.e. the more recent population lived an unsustainable lifestyle and wiped themselves out. Really wish I could remember that article's details. Sorry.
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It is thought that man came from ape like ancestors, not quite monkey's.  \n\nIt could take hundreds of thousands of years for macro evolution to occur.  Wait around that long, and i guarantee there will be NEW species.  So it is still happening.\n\nThe fossil record is not complete because fossils are hard to come by, not everything fossilises despite contrary belief.  In fact it's amazing we have as much info as we do.\n\nHow on earth does it take less belief to believe in a god, there is no evidence whatsoever for this!  At least evolution has enough evidence to fill several hundred warehouses, what do you have, testimony.. Yeah right, thanks, i'll keep to evidence, not faith to inform my decisions about the world around me.
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First of all science hasn't proven that man evolved from apes. If we did evolve from apes ? How come there are still apes in the jungle? How come all the apes haven't changed to Human beings. How come no one has ever stumbled upon an ape in the process of transforming into a human. \nYou know what . The reason man is so brainy is because he was created in the image and like of God. As a matter of fact science has shown that the average man does not use 90% of his brain capacity.\nGod expects you to do somethings for yourself, use the brain that he has given you to find cure to diseases and solve earths pressing problems instead of questioning his existence.\nPerhaps you should take a trip to Mars or Pluto, may be you might find some fellow ape-men, or sub-species of \nape-men .Wake up man!
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There is some debate on this, but from my Archaeology class, I learned that the first real human (homo sapien) found is approximately 160,000-120,000 years old.  This skeleton was found at Klasies River Mouth, South Africa.  \n\nI hope this helps!
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Scientists believe that man may have used fire as long as 1.8 million years ago (Homo Erectus).\n\nI don't mean to be a grammar stickler, but you can't "domesticate" fire, "domesticate" can only be applied to wild animals.
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Who told you there werent?\nSahelanthropus tchadensis\nOrrorin tugenensis\nArdipithecus ramidus\nAustralopithecus anamensis\nAustralopithecus afarensis\nKenyanthropus platyops\nAustralopithecus africanus\nAustralopithecus garhi\nAustralopithecus aethiopicus\nAustralopithecus robustus\nAustralopithecus boisei\nHomo habilis\nHomo georgicus\nHomo erectus\nHomo ergaster\nHomo antecessor\nHomo heidelbergensis\nHomo neanderthalensis\nHomo floresiensis \nHomo sapiens sapiens\nThese are all hominids and man is a hominid! Henceforth men are members of the ape family\nnote homo erectus, this is when it is thought that apes started walking on two feet....\nHomo neanderthalensis is the ape thought to have started using primitve weapons to kill his quarry or game.