So-Called Stone-Age People Performed Surgery
It was a nice surprise to have both Stevia Dolce and Lisa Myworries from the Darwin Ranch stop by my place. Stevia is the baker, and brought some fabulous croissants. Lisa supervises the Winkie Guards. It seems that some of our creation discussions, albeit brief, were making an impression on them.
They know (but keep quiet about it) that the idea of humanity's progress suddenly taking off in comparatively recent years after doing nothing for tens of thousands is ridiculous. Lisa was sharing material on Out-of-Place Artifacts with Stevia, and they commenced to thinking.
"Caveman" dreams of scalpel, image assembled from images found at openclipart |
For many years, evidence has been found showing that humans were surprisingly intelligent in times that were only supposed to reveal simple, “primitive” man in his brute, evolving condition. This amazed and confounded evolutionists. Such discoveries include the amazing Antikythera mechanism discovered in 1901. This is the first known analogue computer and was dated somewhere between 100-200 BC. . . .It was recently reported that the skeletal remains of a person who had an obvious amputation was found in a limestone cave in Borneo. Prior to this discovery, the oldest evidence for amputation surgery was a 7,000-year-old skeleton of a male “Stone Age” farmer from France.
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