Re: Discovery's "Walking with Cavemen"

From: cryofan@mylinuxisp.com
Date: Tue Jun 17 2003 - 12:15:56 MDT

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    Kevin Freels <megaquark@hotmail.com> said:

    > I watched it, the watched it again a second time while I recorded it. It's
    great to have something out there that explains the evolutionary history of
    human beings in laymen's terms. I had 6 people (all of whom think I am nuts)
    watch this. If there is one thing they all got out of it, it was the fact
    that Neanderthal man is NOT our ancestor, but an entirely different species!
    I am starting to check around right now, but it seems to me that the common
    misconception is that we descended from Neanderthal man. After viewing this
    program, all 6 of these people are more inclined to listen to what I have to
    say about evolution vs. creation. They simply had no idea how it worked!
    > Until seeing this program, one of my friends (and possibly more) actually
    thought that man descended from what is, for lack of a better word, modern
    ape. Once again, the Discovery channel has opened a few minds!!!!!!
    > Three cheers for the Discovery Channel!
    >
    >

    I also enjoyed what I saw of the program, and plan to eventually watch it in
    its entirety. However, I would not take what they say as carved in stone
    truth. Every week some grand revelation issues forth from the mills of the
    press via some study. But many of those studies are flawed. Truth is always
    being revised, and it seems that we have a short memory considering how often
    studies that are promoted as carved in stone truth are refuted a few years
    later. Evolutionary biology is great stuff, but I would not be surprised if
    what we saw in the aforementioned TV show is revised with a decade or 2.



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