Watcher74 said:
Saying we are 100% human does not mean we are 100% the same.
The most difficult part about even suggesting such a thing is which ethnic group gets to be the focus?
Well, all the fossil records say we originated in Africa, so I guess Africans are the focus.
Just interesting to me that every "hominid" skull found looks strikingly aboriginal, and they find them in places you might expect to find aboriginal skulls. What a coincidence!
30,000 years ago there were very large animals on every single continent. Mammoths, Saber tooth tigers, giant sloths, HUGE reptiles in Australia. And then they all died mysteriously. Happened to coincide with human dispertion across the globe. Does that imply that we killed them? That's a huge debate. But most people admit, that most likely we did do it.
Could be. Or it could be this big ol flood that I've read about. As far as human dispertion, yes, I could well easily see that happening after the flood. After all, somebody already knew how to build the biggest ship of all. Crossing a paltry couple of oceans would have been a walk in the park.
But let me ask you this:
If humans killed all the large animals on all the different continents, why is Africa, our ancestral homeland, the only continent that is known to have very large animals?
Because those are the only animals that coevolved with us.
Those are the only animals that slowly adapted to our increasing abilities to kill them.
If a herd of Antelope in Africa see a lion come over a hill they do not run.
They just look at it and mutter, "I see you, lion. You start running and I'm out of here."
Those same Antelope see a human come over a hill and they run like hell was behind them.
I could understand why those creepy looking two legged things are scary. They scare me!
They just looked at us and said, "That's a funny looking animal. Never seen anything like that. Hey, why is it holding that funny branch thing? What is it doing with that? Really odd animal. Hey wha??? gurgle..."
Hmmm, I wouldn't tell that to the families in Florida who's kids were attacked by bull sharks.
If humans and animals were all created at the same time, and no one had a chance to evolve in response to the dangers of each other, then all the surviving large animals would not only exist in Africa.
But they do. So what does that tell you?
Well, they exist in India as well, namely elephants, quite far from Africa. What what point is central between Africa and India? The middle east, perhaps even the Sinai peninsula.
Well, if there are no other large animals in Africa (or India), then why are there no snakes in Ireland? By evolutions geography, when the great continent "pangea" broke up, surely some serpents would have made their way. They made it to England and Europe. Hawaii- Bermuda-Guam.... but not Ireland. So maybe the Irish evolved much quicker than the snakes in the predator-prey (or snake-garden rake) relationship. I have no Creation answer to that one, but it's about the same as asking why there are no large animals around the globe.
People have been on the seas for thousands of years, yet I regularly have dolphins and the occasional manatee come right up to the boat when I'm out in our coastal waters. They have no reason to--- they don't eat what you try to feed them, and boats don't look like attractive potential mates. No fear there.
