Originally Posted by antelope_sniper
Originally Posted by nighthawk
First you have to define "man." With or without a soul?


Have you provided sufficient evidence to demonstrate that souls exist?

For the sake of simplicity lets say modern humans, i.e. homo-sapien-sapiens.

No and the existence of a human soul is so painfully obvious that I'm not going to.

If you're seriously interested here's a good article from a scientific point of view: 70,000 Years Ago, What Made Us Human: The Origin of a Soul?

Homo sapien sapiens, about 200,000 years ago. But that's boring. More interesting is when did man become distinguished from animals. As the title suggests about 70,000 years ago. Syntactical speech was a big one. And others such as ritual burial of the dead (and much more) suggest an enlightenment which is generally characterized as a soul.



The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.