Why was the claimed ancient man so slow in developing new tools?

Question

1000 generations? Why is the claimed early man clever enough to use tools... but... so slow in new tools?

In the claimed ape to man examples , early man has the ingenuity of making a few tools, some difficult to make rock tools which takes a but of skill and yet, they are claimed to go like 500,000 years before learning a new trick and learninga new tool... wouldnt you think if their main thing was a stone tool, they would quickly lean allot of other tricks and toolsmithery Is it really plausible man would go 1000 generations for each new step of primitive toolmaking? or is this a hint that maybe the dates are way off?

Is it possible that the way of looking at early man by evolutionists is just off? force fit to preconceptions?

Answer 1

Recent research on Neanderthal has challenged the Darwinists’ arbitrary evolutionary sequence of hominids. In 1996 anthropologists Jeffrey Schwartz and Ian Fattersall examined more than a dozen Neanderthal skulls. They found nasal bones and sinus cavities many times larger than modern man’s—and no tear ducts. Their conclusions could cause tears for evolutionists! Why? They asserted that anatomical differences eliminates Neanderthal from the line of human ancestry! The final blow to Neanderthal was struck by Darwinists in 1997. Darwinist molecular researchers recovered DNA from a Neanderthal fossil and decoded it to compare how closely it resembled human DNA. Their conclusions—the human face is neither descended from nor related to Neanderthal specie. This blow to Darwinism startled the world. The news was heralded by Newsweek (July 21, 1997, V. 130, p. 65) with a picture of Neanderthal on its front cover.

We are not and were not evolved from Apes or Prehistoric creatures.

Answer 2

If this is a serious question, ancient man was not slow in developing tools at all.... actually it happened really quite quickly, in an historical sense. I could write you a book but rather than do that, offer some that explain it even better. And if you have written a serious question to which you wish a serious answer, put your money where your mouth is and read them: and order them cheap, used, and in paperback from some outfit like Amazon.com. (and hon, evolutionists have no preconceptions.... as stuff is discovered, or figured out, they change, and change, and change again to accommodate new data...all an evolutionist wants is more and more and more data, so that their ideas and conclusions CAN change.... they are a bunch not stuck to any single doctrine.....)



1. Guns, Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond

2. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

3. Collaspe, by Jared Diamond

4 The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.



For less than $100 buckos, these, and about every other question you might have are exquisitely answered. Another set of great ones:



1. Cosmos by Carl Sagan

2. Connections by James Burke

3. The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke



Oh, and the idiot above re: Neanderthal... yes, we know Homo sapiens never came from Neanderthal--- that human species was a parallel not an ancestor, just as todays Chimps are a paralled primate, not an ancestor. Funny how fundamentalists read just enough, but not all, or put the information is an isolationistic capsule, and never see the entire picture......... oh, well.

Answer 3

It's all right,God gave free will so there should not be any arguing. However the fact is science and logic will never explain everything....man 'the epitome/zenith' of evolution cannot and never will know everything there is to know and that is a fact that does not even touch spiritual aspects. Man exists in a finite universe already created(himself included) man only creates from existing physical,chemical biological matter and only observes phenomena but cannot create anything 'ex nihilo' out of non existance or out of nothing.That said man can never prove himself any greater than he already is.If he could then God would exist as a man creating things and doing everything 'God' could do.Such a man did exist but only in a Christian construct....since atheists don't beleive.... then they cannot replicate that feat. The burden of proof lies squarely with atheists really coz Christians accept God on faith not proof .The huge rub is that for atheists man with all his logic,physical and temporal limitations cannot express themselves infinitely within their means let alone proving an infinite entity outside their imagination....while christians feel secure that their 'God' can prove himself through finite means(already did so as a man) and always does as spirit Christians don't claim that 'atheists can't prove that God does not exist', it's atheists trying hard to do prove that he doesn't (to convince themselves that they are right) and to convince the rest...which frankly they cannot do if they ever are fair to themselves.

Answer 4

What are you talking about?



Have you not noticed that the invention of new technology has become exponential?



Yes, it started off slow, and then it got faster and faster until now where many things are obsolete almost as soon as you buy them.



Honestly, please do more historical research. Thats the way technology has developed. It was NOT always the way it is now.



What is it with people that they seem to think that this is the way everything always was and always will be. Times change.

Answer 5

Do you know what the ASPM gene is? Of course you don't-it's the gene that controls human brain growth and is the reason for mankind's intellectual development. If you had known that fact you would never have asked your meaningless question. The way creationists try and manufacture and invent problems with evolution that just don't exist is pathetic.

Answer 6

Actually no. The thing is, we have something that they didn't, innovation. Yes, there actually IS a part of the brain that gives you ability to have innovation. Since they didn't have that, everything was MUCH slower, because things had to happen on accident for them to realize a new use for a tool.

Answer 7

Lack of communication between cultures slowed development and progress. Look at how communication has speed the development of technology in modern times.

Answer 8

Otters have been cracking open clams on rocks on their tummy's since the species first evolved, i think we have come along way huh? You're assuming early man were as smart as we are now.... I think i totally just threw your whole mess of an "argument" into the toilet.... lol

Answer 9

Read your ancient history, early civilizations had very advanced tools. Have you ever seen an ancient temple or pyramid? They also had blacksmiths in China in 6000 BC.

Answer 10

For the billionth time the theory of evolution does not claim that man "came" from apes. We have a common ancestor.

Answer 11

It's obvious to us, with our developed frontal lobes (thank natural selection for that). But to an animalistic mind, it is not simple to imagine potential causes and their effects.

Answer 12

Yes, I agree. "Forced to fit preconceptions" is about as good as it can be said.

Answer 13

you need some type of metal for toolmaking. the earliest available metal came about 1500b.c.

Answer 14

its all theory and conjecture ... the truth is theres absolutely no historical record of anything that can be completely proved before about 4000bc ... and that in itself should say somthing to ya ... man has been at his current intelligence level for 100000years or so according to evolution ... if so wheres the historical records ...

Answer 15

you really need an avatar of the Geicko caveman when asking this question........