<<Jim, you really shouldn't put your lawlerly words in my mouth. I never
said
that there was a mental and spiritual dark age. There was a technological
dark age.>>
All right, what words would you use? I'm really stumped on this. If you can
cite me some literature, or a section in your website, please do. Here is
the problem I see:
You want to take the picture of the biblical Adam, Even, Cain, Abel, and
Noah and place them back over 5 million years ago. To overcome the obvious
question of what happened to their technology, you posit a technological
dark age. OK. Even though this is contradicted by passages such as Gen.
5:22 and 9:20, we'll grant it for a moment. You are still left with people
that had sophisiticated language, spiritual and mental abilities--the sort
of things modern man has.
But now, going back a mere 300,000 years, you don't have any of that. You
point to indicators you say evidences humanity, but the futher back you go
the weaker they are, which is why all the experts you happily quote argue
over whether they are in the line of modern man or not.
But these hominids didn't have the mental, vocal or spiritual capacity of
the early Genesis characters. No one believe that, apparently not even you.
So, my question to you is, What happened? It looks like an obvious mental
regression. What words would you use?
This, it seems to me, is the more fruitful path to follow. We can play
duelling experts again, but that obviously doesn't help. You already admit
no one in the world agrees with you, so what good will it do me to keep on
making THAT case?
That being said, however, I do admire your continuing tenacity in the teeth
of expert opinion. It's OK to stand alone, so long as one remembers the
risks. Copernicus did it, but so, may I remind you, did the cheese. The
latter was consumed without ceremony.
Jim