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Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago

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Interesting article. We had a precarious start that almost didn't happen.

As I read the article I couldn't but help but image and wonder the future demise of Homo sapiens as a species. Especially with what we have done to the Earth.


Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago
 

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Interesting article. We had a precarious start that almost didn't happen.

As I read the article I couldn't but help but image and wonder the future demise of Homo sapiens as a species. Especially with what we have done to the Earth.


Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago
Strange how mankind has achieved vastly more in a few thousand years than in the preceding 895,000. It's almost as if man has only been on the earth a few thousand years. Maybe "God created man in His image" is correct after all.
 
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Strange how mankind has achieved vastly more in a few thousand years than in the preceding 895,000. It's almost as if man has only been on the earth a few thousand years. Maybe "God created man in His image" is correct after all.
Same can be said for the last 100 years. By that logic we have only been around for a few hundred years.
 
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Your claims are only on paper too.

My claims are backed up by cause-and-effect evidence.

Examples:

The Bible
Time divided into BC and AD.
Organizations such as the Red Cross and Salvation Army.
Hospitals built by Christian organizations.
Beautiful Christian artwork, edifices, statuary and literature.
IN GOD WE TRUST on our coins and UNDER GOD in our pledge of allegiance.
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Crosses and billboards erected to testify of Jesus Christ.
Two major nations founded on His existence.

Can you show me cause-and-effect evidence for macroevolution?
 
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My claims are backed up by cause-and-effect evidence.

Examples:

The Bible
Time divided into BC and AD.
Organizations such as the Red Cross and Salvation Army.
Hospitals built by Christian organizations.
Beautiful Christian artwork, edifices, statuary and literature.
IN GOD WE TRUST on our coins and UNDER GOD in our pledge of allegiance.
The Ten Commandments and other literature displayed in public.
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Public debates in the name of Christianity.
Crosses and billboards erected to testify of Jesus Christ.
Two major nations founded on His existence.

Can you show me cause-and-effect evidence for macroevolution?

Your claims are only claims and are not backed up by evidence of cause and effect at all. All you show with that list is that people follow Christianity. They do not show in any way at all that anything you claim is true or correct or even valid at all.
 
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Same can be said for the last 100 years. By that logic we have only been around for a few hundred years.
Made me think of this verse...

Dan 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
 
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Strange how mankind has achieved vastly more in a few thousand years than in the preceding 895,000. It's almost as if man has only been on the earth a few thousand years. Maybe "God created man in His image" is correct after all.

It's called the cumulative effects of developing technology. Especially the technology of long-term storage of information (writing).
 
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Strange how mankind has achieved vastly more in a few thousand years than in the preceding 895,000. It's almost as if man has only been on the earth a few thousand years. Maybe "God created man in His image" is correct after all.
Amazing how poof recorded history started around that time. And one of the races that clearly dates back to that time are the people of the Bible. This being the year 5783 according to the Jewish calendar.
 
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Your claims are only claims and are not backed up by evidence of cause and effect at all. All you show with that list is that people follow Christianity. They do not show in any way at all that anything you claim is true or correct or even valid at all.
 
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My claims are backed up by cause-and-effect evidence.

Examples:

The Bible
Time divided into BC and AD.
Organizations such as the Red Cross and Salvation Army.
Hospitals built by Christian organizations.
Beautiful Christian artwork, edifices, statuary and literature.
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The Ten Commandments and other literature displayed in public.
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Crosses and billboards erected to testify of Jesus Christ.
Two major nations founded on His existence.

Can you show me cause-and-effect evidence for macroevolution?

I hope that you don't expect me to list them all. But here's a brief summary.
  • Every life form on the planet.
 
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And yet the evidence for evolution exists.
Therefore, to follow the rules of cause and effect, God used evolution to create life on this world.
Simples.
 
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Can you show me cause-and-effect evidence for macroevolution?
I hope that you don't expect me to list them all. But here's a brief summary.
  • Every life form on the planet.

Negative.

Every life form on the planet came from its immediate parents, from those born today, to the oldest person on earth.

They are evidence of microevolution, not macroevolution.

If however, you mean every life form that ever lived on this planet, then you have a huge problem:

Missing links.
 
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