Origin of Species is 150 years old today

Slartibartfast wrote:

aaronayl1 wrote:

NickSCFC wrote:I've always wondered what happened to our close cousins (homo-erectus) etc. Fair enough they weren't as adaptable as the further evolved human, but why did everything between humans and chimps/bonobos completely vanish around 30,000 years ago?

Because anything "between" humans and chimps occupied the same niche as us. By that I mean they competed for the same resources, lived in the same way etc. Because they weren't able to compete as well as us they die out.

Like grey squirrels and red squirrels... there's no need to go and actually kill the other species, just out forage and out breed and the less fit variety will have to retreat.

Cal wrote:
Or at least it would be true if Christians had the common decency to admit it. I was raised as a Catholic and I used to ask questions such as how God could make so much suffering, so much pain in the world? The usual weasel-worded answer was that 'it isn't God, it's the Devil'. Oh, that explains everything.

Moggy wrote:

Cal wrote:
Or at least it would be true if Christians had the common decency to admit it. I was raised as a Catholic and I used to ask questions such as how God could make so much suffering, so much pain in the world? The usual weasel-worded answer was that 'it isn't God, it's the Devil'. Oh, that explains everything.

And who made the Devil....

Deadpool wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Cal wrote:
Or at least it would be true if Christians had the common decency to admit it. I was raised as a Catholic and I used to ask questions such as how God could make so much suffering, so much pain in the world? The usual weasel-worded answer was that 'it isn't God, it's the Devil'. Oh, that explains everything.

And who made the Devil....

He made himself into what he is, I think the official line would be.

Vesp wrote:Devil was made to bring balance. i.e if there is God then there is someone who controls evil.

Vesp wrote:Well there we go. The stories of God the same?

Whats the earliest evidance of a culture recognising a God(s)?