Do You Believe Homo Sapiens Underwent a Neurological Mutation to Us?

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humans have been the smartest creatures on the planet for a long time but while species appeared to do nothing remarkable over the first 200,000 years has long been a mystery to many in fact the abrupt emergence of human culture over a stunningly short period continues to be one of the great enigmas of human evolution

Oh, yeah?

I suppose this means, a) Homo sapiens has existed for 300 000 years, b) Homo sapiens has been producing human culture for only 100 000 years. Or, if you like, shorten it down even to 240 000 and 40 000.

But, let's not forget, this is not historic memory. This is reconstruction. It's a reconstruction from finds and datings.

Let's reformulate.

a) Homo sapiens skeleta have been found dated to anything from near present to 300 000 BP
b) Homo sapiens skeleta have been found with unambiguous proofs of actual culture, dated to anything from near present to 100 000 years ago.

What can be known immediately about a skeleton that was dated to 150 000 years ago? It was NOT carbon dated.**

Carbon dates have as utmost limit, either 60 — 70 000 BP or even just 50 — 60 000 BP.

I looked it up, it's 55 — 60 000 BP.

So, what can we know about any date that's prior to 60 000 BP?
a) It's not a carbon date.
b) It's still not historic memory, so it's some kind of other date.

There is a very big problem with the other dating methods commonly used in Earth Sciences. None of them has been tested on recent archaeology. None of them can have the half life verified by organic material (bodies, body parts or artefacts) of known historic age. If I want to verify that carbon 14 works, with a halflife of 5730 years, it's pretty easy.

After 500 years, I am supposed to have 94.131 pmC left.*** So, 2024 - 500 = 1524. Plenty of historic material. Was there wood in the throne that Gustav Wasa hade made in 1527, is it preserved? Carbon date that.

Or, did Henry VIII own a tournament shield? Was there wood in that? Carbon date that. For 750 years it's 91.327 pmC, for 1000 years 88.606 pmC, and so on.

By contrast, whatever method one is using to date a Homo sapiens skeleton to 300 000 years ago has never, ever, been used to date historic material of known age.

A pretty common one is K-Ar. And as more rapid cooling of the lava results in more Argon getting trapped, making for bad K-Ar dates, I would simply pose that a K-Ar date of 300 000 BP means the person was covered by a lava layer or buried in mud covered by a lava layer, during the Flood.

The reason (very typically) that a skeleton dated to 300 000 years ago shows no cultural items is, no one had to bury him in the Flood, and his clothes may have been burned by lava as well. The reason a Neanderthal dated 47 000 BP in a Gibraltar cave (not Gorham) is preserved, with cultural items is, the burial actually had a tendency to preserve these even beyond the Flood of Noah.

So, if we believe Young Earth Creationism, we have no need to ask why "for 200 000 years" men supposedly exhibited existance, but not intelligence.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Conversion of St. Paul
25.I.2024

* https://youtu.be/yendY1ZA9wo?si=LPXJ8fG-WqjDcBPL
** Or else the carbon date was discarded.
*** Apart from the Carbon 14 Dating Calculator I also refer to the calculation: 500 being out of 5730 the fraction 500/5730 (or 50/573), the remainder of carbon would be 50 % or 0.5^(50/573) = 0.9413087854383377 = 94.131 % (pmC = % modern Carbon).