Art cannot have helped make us more human if we did not start out that way. And that in turn could not have happened without some impetus that was simply not granted to any other life form.
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Technology has a history but the human mind does not. We see it where we see it.
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Some of the Neanderthals’ practices around skulls suggest that they followed a belief system.
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We can learn a lot from fossil footprints — who went where, when, and why — that static artifacts don’t tell us by themselves.
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There seems less interest today in maintaining a “subhuman” status for our Neanderthal ancestors. It’s good if that sort of thing makes people uncomfortable.
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New technologies enable ideas and abilities that are latent in human beings to take form. Thus claims about the evolution of consciousness are problematic.
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One effect of the presumption of atheism in science is that all kinds of speculation can be grandfathered as reasonable scientific thinking.
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The controversy around possible homo Naledi burials (335,000 to 245,000 years ago) has also broken out again.
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Darwinian evolution theory allows any state of affairs that dates to eons ago to be called “evolution” even when, as in this case, the facts imply the opposite.
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The question naturally arises, was the normally developed human mind ever incapable of abstract thought? That’s a challenge to accepted evolution theories.
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Fr. Hilbert shows that we have not found anything that justifies a Darwinian approach to life as somehow more compatible with science than a Christian one.
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Neanderthals cannot be the missing link that many paleontologists are looking for. But if the human mind has no history, there is no missing link.
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The study, along with recent studies of Neanderthal tools and stone circles, is making the idea that they were intellectually inferior increasingly untenable.
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It’s progress, perhaps, that researchers are defending the role of parsimonious inference. It’s possible to see too much in scattered beads — or too little.
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If man is biologically — but not cognitively — like an animal, the obvious implication is that some aspect of the human mind is not biological.
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Humans can tolerate mysteries quite well as long as we can fill them in with speculations, which in the end tell us mostly about ourselves.
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A 2024 study suggests that T. rex was only as smart as a crocodile, not a chimp. That might seems like a comedown — except that crocs are fairly sharp.
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We can’t read the thoughts of the dead who left no decipherable writings but we can study the workings of the human mind from remarkably long ago.
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The problem is, so much is lost that it is risky to draw conclusions. But what’s remarkable is how humans have expressed themselves with whatever was available.
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We must mentally step outside nature to consider things like how the world was created or what lies beyond death. Immaterial minds can do that.
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