Reply #5: The first farmers 7,000 years ago? [View All]

Conservative estimates are that modern humans have been around about 200,000 years but Homo Sapiens and relatives have been around for millions of years. I have only my BS meter to see that the number 7,000 is small in such scales and just wonder what happened to at least 193,000 years of history in which 7,000 years occurred an additional 28 and a half times. So little is said about human culture prior to about 10,000 years ago. Like we were all knuckle-dragging cave men before that. We really aren't so new. The first farmers only 7,000 years ago? Please. We evolved on this planet and have been part and parcel of it for millions of years in various forms with a mind, a heart, our eyes, our hands, and 24 hour days to pass through moment by moment. We didn't evolve, for example, language in all its subtleties by scratching our underarms, walking around clubbing dinosaurs, and grunting at each other. I suspect we made rather interesting sounds and came to discuss rather interesting and mundane subjects for a very, very long time. So I would revise the article's sentence to read "the earliest known farmers we have found to date". Indicating otherwise suppresses curiosity and invites dogma into a mind that should remain open and inquisitive.

/end rant