Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Is science a religion?

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

>Oh, yeah, and I think he was trying to say that, if the jump to man was
>so successful, where are the "tweens"? Why should we have apes and not
>any of the forms in between? All sapiens seam to have evolved into the
>Homo sapiens. Why don't you have branching from any of the others? There
>should be some surviving of the other forms in some manner or another.
>
I guess that's where you get into the concept of big foot and similar 
almost-men. They could very well exist in limited colonies. The sad 
truth though is that mankind is very brutal with anything that gets in 
our way. Almost-men would have been competition and we would have killed 
off all those that we could. On the other hand if the variations are not 
to great at a single time then we might have breed some of these into 
our own species. Neatherdal(sp?) Man I have heard is similar to us, and 
may have at times coexisted with us, but is not directly part of the 
same species.

I guess my last thought is that mankind is a very diverse species. 
Anything that talks and looks like a bipedal upright mammal is pretty 
much called mankind. I'm 6'6 and built like a truck. The guy at the 
mini-mart yesterday was 4'9 and was probably one-third my weight. I'm 
white, he was dark skinned. He was hairy and I'm not. To guess by the 
way he looked and behaved I'd guess that I'm much more intelligent. 
Sure, these things are not considered to make people of a different 
species but they could be. We just drew the line before we really coined 
the words and ideas.
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