Human Origins Theory Tested By Recent Findings

annamadrigal writes "The BBC news is reporting on findings presented in Nature which suggest that Homo Erectus and H. Habilis were in fact sister species which co-existed. This challenges the view that the upright humans evolved from the tool users."

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Re:Been there, done that.

[MightyMartian]

You're not actually asserting that the Israelite backstory has any fact to it, are you? There was no Egyptian captivity, no wandering around the Sinai. In fact, the archaeoligical evidence now pretty strongly indicates that the Hebrew tribes were a part of the Canaanite peoples of the Bronze Age. They were completely indigenous, did not run off to some foreign land. They were Canaanites who worshipped the tribal deity Yahweh, and who eventually made their god supreme, though the true monotheistic faith took longer to develop (witness the "we" that we find in the second creation myth in Genesis 2).

This idea that because archaeologists have confirmed the existence of certain sites and events depicted in the Bible means that it is somehow fantastically true is ludicrous. You might as well believe in the Olympian gods because Greek myths mention true placenames, some people that likely existed and some events that likely happened (ie. the fall of Troy).

Why people find this amazing is quite beyond me. Plenty of myths contain references to real things. After all, the whole point of a myth is to provide a cultural touchpoint for a society.