China's Earliest Modern Human Found

The remains of one of the earliest modern humans to inhabit eastern Asia have been unearthed in China. The find could shed light on how our ancestors colonized the East. Researchers found 34 bone fragments belonging to a single individual at the Tianyuan Cave, near Beijing.

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Re:Actually it is that old.

[CRCulver]

ou already said that Dawkins is not a philosopher of religion, which indicates that you automatically exclude atheists from being philosophers of religion, which I'm prepared to agree with.

No, atheists are not excluded from being philosophers of religion. There have been many notable atheist philosophers of religion. For every Swinburne there's a Mackie, and for every Plantinga there's a Flew (well, before his conversion, anyway). Just look in your university library for an introductory reader in the philosophy of religion--I'm especially fond of Readings in the Philosophy of Religion ed. Baruch Brody (Prentice Hall, 1996). you'll see that atheist lines of argumentation are just as represented as theist ones.

Dawkins is not a philosopher of religion because he does not publish in journals dedicated to the subject, nor does he hold a university position as a lecturer or researcher in the philosopher of religion, nor do many actual philosophers of religion recognize Dawkins as one of their own.