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Adam, the first man on Earth.

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--- Quote from: Ari on January 17, 2008, 10:16:37 PM ---I'm confused.

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Same.
I'm going to go and eat something before reading all of these posts.

I believe that Adam was the first human on earth....and unless cavemen were literally like monkies, they came after him.

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First, there is no basis for believing that Adam was the first man, unless you believe in a certain text that says so.

- jewish tradition is that the first man - Adam - was around 6000 years ago.
 
There are cave paintings, whose dating puts them to more than 6000 years..  And some of the paintings are good. But That does not show human intelligence though.. It could be the creature got hungry, thought of a goat and decided to draw it.   It is also possible that the dating is wrong (since scientists extrapolate).

Linguistic evidence though, goes back no more than 6000 years. Linguistic evidence is evidence one can evaluates to check for intelligent life, you can see what people thought, felt.

Interestingly, black people did not have any written language at all until around the 1800s when white people introduced it to them!!!!!!
 

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