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Replying to post 1187 by EarthScienceguy]
You tell me what pre human's are it is your theory not mine.
"My" theory? The ToE is not anything I came up with so it is not "my" theory.
I'm asking you a very simple question that you don't seem able to answer. What is a "prehuman"? Give a definition. This is not a formal evolutionary term as far as I know, but you don't even seem to know yourself what this term means because you are evading the question and not providing a definition.
Now if you are asking me when modern man begins. Using brain size as a criteria everything from Homo rudolfensis to Homo erectus. Homo habilis is not well enough defined to evaluate.
OK ... since you won't answer the question directly I can only infer from this comment that you are defining the term "prehuman" to mean anything from
rudolfensis to
erectus. If so, then there is nothing related to ToE that implies the existence of "thousands of millions" (a.k.a. billions) of such creatures living at any one time. That certainly was not the case.
Cumulatively (the total population of all such creatures that ever lived), is much less improbable. To get a minimum of 2 billion such creatures (you used plural "thousands of millions"), over a time span of ~2.2 million years (date of the oldest rudolfensis fossil found to date, to last known erectus fossil), you'd need an average population at any one time of 2e9 / 2.2e6 ~ 900. And this population would have to be maintained continuously for the 2.2 million year period, evolving from
rudolfensis to
erectus along the way. I don't know if anyone has done estimates for this sort of thing, but a total population of 900 creatures living at any one time isn't outrageous, although presumably the population started small and grew over time as usual.
But I don't see how this relates to your comment in post 1179 where you simply give total human population estimates going back to 2000 BC, then add this: "
The assumed existence of thousands of millions of “prehumans� is both physically and scriptural unrealistic." Since the last
erectus died out about 140,000 years ago, what does the population of "prehumans" have to do with modern populations from 2000 BC to the present? There were no "prehumans" around at 2000 BC. Are you trying to argue that billions of "prehumans" are required by ToE? Explain that one.
I believe that man was specially created.
Yes, many religions have stories like this to create the idea that humans are special animals. Unfortunately, the evidence shows otherwise and confirms that modern humans evolved from "archaic" humans, who evolved from the great apes, who evolved from earlier mammals, etc. Stories of human "creation" in religious texts have no basis in physical reality ... they are myths.
