Re: The wrong horse in evolution education

That is not my understanding of the RTB model.

Ross et al, are explicit that the homo genus is not equivalent with humanity. They would say that only those homo's that are specially created in the "image of God" are human beings. They place the first human being, Adam, in the Neolithic revolution. The archeological-cultural "big bang" is a result of the presence of human beings, that is, because Man was created in the image of God, he was able to produce this explosion in tools, agriculture, civilization, etc.

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  From: Philtill@aol.com
  To: pruest@mysunrise.ch ; asa@calvin.edu
  Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 5:13 PM
  Subject: Re: The wrong horse in evolution education

  In a message dated 4/14/2006 1:15:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time, pruest@mysunrise.ch writes:
    I am sorry I failed to explain this expression.
  Hi Peter,

  I guess my question wasn't so much about the meaning of the expression as it was to know why this is a problem. Both in Reasons To Believe's model and in Dick Fischer's model, for example, humanity began long before this archeological big bang occurred. I suppose that in both models the explanation for the later big bang is simply that humanity happened to discover new tool technologies at that later time, long after humanity first arrived on the scene. Similarly, we have just recently discovered digital technologies and this is producing a digital big bang at the present. As another example, the time from the scientific revolution (say from the time of Copernicus/Galileo) until now is really a blink of an eye in geological time, and so we can see it as another archeological big bang that has occurred in recent times. So I don't see this as a problem, whatever model a person has. Do you see this differently?

  Phil Metzger
Received on Fri Apr 14 19:13:43 2006