Hi, Peg.
I can see that you've got a consistent idea in your head, but I don't think you understand the implications.
Peg writes:
i believe we were created with [the capacity for speech]. so for me, 'modern man' would equate to the creation of Adam & Eve...
...I do acknowledge that the species that came before us were real...however, i also believe that they, like all other animals, were created for a purpose and when their purpose was realized, they were permitted to become extinct....like the dinosaurs for instance.
More power to you for it, Peg.
But, you’ve got to account for the fact that, not only are there humans anatomically identical to modern humans living before the first signs of written language,
but some of these pre-writing fossils connect genetically to modern humans! That means humans living today are the descendants of pre-writing humans, which completely refutes your notion that writing humans are distinct from pre-writing humans.
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Peg writes:
i certainly think that written language is unique to todays humans...i've never been presented with anything different...and as i've already stated, written language has only been around for the last 5,000 odd years... unless you can present anything different on this???
So what?
I can make similar arguments for spoken language, stone masonry, slavery, the sword, currency, the fur trade, democracy, the theory of evolution, the automobile, the atomic bomb, the computer and cloning (as well as thousands of other major advancements).
What makes you think written language is such a magical singularity in human history that humans who have it must be considered a distinct species from humans who predated it? And, how come these other great achievements don’t mark the advent of new species?
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