Anth, 4 Feb 2002

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Since someone asked: Assume that school, work, other peoples' drama, insane housemate issues, and sleep take up more time and energy than I can muster, and most of those things aren't interesting or aren't mine to write up. (And there was that spoofed news piece ..)


test returned, review:
essays: not specific enough, use details to back up thesis

these got switched somehow?

<th>Creationists and Evolutionists:</th> Food Production:

• first Hominids: 4 - 4.5 E 6 YBP
• Hunting and Gathering -> 10-11 E3 YBP
• control food sources
• 6E3 YBP: Old World villages
• 3.5E3 YBP: New World villages
• Neolithic: "New Age"
• Constraints of Hunter/Gathers:
  • very finite food supply
  • spaced births of children
  • ease of transport in migration, fewer infants/toddlers
  • pick between live births
  • elderly (wisdom) also not mobile
• Advantages of sedentary lifestyle:
  • able to support larger populations
  • no need to migrate all people, property
  • accumulation of property: pottery (sun dried, semi-fired)
  • fine goods: grave goods, gifts
  • crops can be stored
• Hazards of sedentary life :
  • less mobile in case of disaster
  • less adaptable
  • population concentration, property breed conflicts
  • more complex rules
  • grown foods (grains) are labour intensive
  • move from free time to drudgery
  • health issues: skeletal injuries, inbreeding
  • health issues: contagion, no sanitation
  • refuse disposal
  • lifespan: reduced from 26 - 19 y
  • cereal grains: calories, but malnutrition (missing nutrients, protein)
  • pulses: (legumes: pods) protein and some nutrient

Creationists: Young Earth: created 26 Oct 4004 BCE (Usher's chronology) Unique Creation: all living things created in final form in the first few days of Creation Progressive Creation: several creative periods (waves) Extinction by Catastrophe (an Act of God?) Single Origin Site: Garden of Eden Origin of Life: Divine Creation

Evolutionists: Old Earth: 4.6 E 9 YBP new life from genetic change Natural Selection determines survivors Multiple Origin Sites, Times: seas, land (eg: Australian animals) Origin of Life: not adressed by Evolutionary Theory Slartibartifast)

Theistic Evolution: taught in seminaries Divine Creation of Evolution simillar to Deism -- clockmaker god