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Originally posted by tinfoil hatter
(it is said that) humankind has been on the Earth for over 10,000,000 years and within this period many great civilizations have risen and fallen... So the 50,000 years you speak of may just have been a rebuilding period from a former glory.
Maybe so, I'm not claiming it to be fact...
Originally posted by gingern
why did take 50,000 years to get from stick to pyramd and only 4000 years to get from pyramid to moon landing?
Originally posted by nixie_nox
I think we hit a lot of road blocks at first, the dark ages, etc. But now we know how to tear down those roadblocks.
This can be looked at the other way that evolution is leaving smarter and smarter people.
It usually only takes one or two inventions to mainstream things. Like the engine. Which now you have a tractor that can do mass farming instead of a plow or horse.
Originally posted by gingern
why did take 50,000 years to get from stick to pyramd and only 4000 years to get from pyramid to moon landing?
Originally posted by tinfoil hatter
Cayce could still be proven right. There is no 100% proof that some form of humans ancestors could not have been around 10,000,000 years ago.
Also, there's always the possibility that there just weren't many human ancestors around then for anyone to find them, yet.
Originally posted by C.C.Benjamin
The Hindu's had a modern concept of the universe before the birth of Christ (planets and stars are spherical and the solar system revolves around the sun).
If we're looking at the highlights of human development, you have to look at the evolution of the organism and then at the development of its interaction with the environment. Evolution of the organism will begin with the evolution of life perceived through the hominid coming to the evolution of mankind. Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man. Now, interestingly, what you're looking at here are three strings: biological, anthropological -- development of the cities -- and cultural, which is human expression.
Now, what you've seen here is the evolution of populations, not so much the evolution of individuals. And in addition, if you look at the time scales that are involved here -- two billion years for life, six million years for the hominid, 100,000 years for mankind as we know it -- you're beginning to see the telescoping nature of the evolutionary paradigm. And then when you get to agricultural, when you get to scientific revolution and industrial revolution, you're looking at 10,000 years, 400 years, 150 years. You're seeing a further telescoping of this evolutionary time. What that means is that as we go through the new evolution, it's gonna telescope to the point we should be able to see it manifest itself within our lifetime, within this generation.