So what that God brought the universe and it’s laws into existence, then used His tool evolution to have us form.
Hi
I honestly don’t believe God uses tools.
This is why…
Diachronous dawn of Africa’s Middle Stone Age: **New 40Ar/39Ar ages from the Ethiopian Rift **
Leah E. Morgan1 and Paul R. Renne1,2
1Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California–Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
2Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, California 94709, USA
The Middle Stone Age (MSA) of Africa, like the Middle Paleolithic of Europe, is thought to represent a time period wherein **toolmakers **acquired significant increases in cognitive abilities and physical dexterity. Existing data fail to resolve whether the MSA emerged gradually, abruptly, or discontinuously, and whether this industry reflects the activity of Homo sapiens. Here we present new 40Ar/39Ar geochronological data revealing that advanced MSA archaeology at two sites in the main Ethiopian Rift is older than 276 ka, much older than technologically comparable MSA archaeology from elsewhere. An age of 183 ka for a unit farther upsection, along with the technological stasis observed throughout the section, indicates that similar technology was used here for ~93 ka. These results suggest that MSA technology evolved asynchronously in different places, and challenge the notion of a distinct time line for either the appearance of the MSA or the disappearance of the earlier Acheulean. These and other recent results indicate that the oldest known MSA consistently predates fossil evidence for the earliest Homo sapiens.
Received: May 29, 2008; Revised: August 27, 2008; Accepted: August 29, 2008
DOI: 10.1130/G25213A.1
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Humans 80,000 Years Older Than Previously Thought?
Kate Ravilious
for National Geographic News
December 3, 2008
Modern humans may have evolved more than 80,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study of sophisticated stone tools found in Ethiopia.
The **tools were uncovered in the 1970s at the archaeological site of Gademotta, in the Ethiopian Rift Valley. But it was not until this year that new dating techniques revealed the tools to be far older than the oldest known Homo sapien bones, which are around 195,000 years old. **
Using argon-argon dating—a technique that compares different isotopes of the element argon—researchers determined that the volcanic ash layers entombing **the tools **at Gademotta date back at least 276,000 years.
Many of the tools found are small blades, made using a technique that is thought to require complex cognitive abilities and nimble fingers, according to study co-author and Berkeley Geochronology Center director Paul Renne.
Some archaeologists believe that these tools and similar ones found elsewhere are associated with the emergence of the modern human species, Homo sapiens.
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I used a few tools today. I used a rake to gather all the leaves in my backyard. I also used a nail and hammer to hang a picture that I made out of pressed flowers and leaves with little cut out faces from photographs inside the middle of 'em. It really is cute. Kinda my signature style ~ :yup: Tomorrow- tomorrow-tomorrow,
I’m getting :christmastree1::extrahappy:
The mystery of God is all wrapped up in the birth of baby Jesus! I’m so excited for XMas day to be here as a reminder how much he is loved by billions of people.
I luv him.
Time for xmas songs while sitting by the fire.
