Living With Homos

Last week the journal Nature reported that the dating of fossils found in Kenya revealed that Homo erectus may not have evolved from Homo habilis, but the two species may have in fact coexisted for nearly 500,000 years.

This got me wonderin’…Were Adam and Eve cavemen? And if so, are there cavemen in heaven? And given the current state of California’s penal system and Arnold’s problems with prison overcrowding, do you think that God has ever had a problem with heaven overcrowding? And if Adam was created on the 6th day, which day did the dinosaurs run around? And if Adam and Eve were cavemen, after they ate the forbidden fruit did they really need the fig leaves? I mean cavemen were pretty hairy – hairy like gorillas, and I’ve seen a lot of naked gorillas but I don’t ever remember seeing a gorilla vagina.

More intriguing is that the article reports the two Homos remained separate species. They lived together in the same lake basin for almost half a million years and yet they didn’t interbreed. How much do you have to not like a group of people in order to not even mingle for 500 centuries? Whites and blacks couldn’t even make it through slavery!

Scientists theorize that they had their own ecological niche and thus avoided direct competition, but still, to not even rape each other? Talk about disdain. Can you imagine the type of derogatory terms they must have had for one another? Given that “knuckle dragger” was most likely a term of endearment back then, how bad must the insult have been in order to be considered a spec-ial slur? Do you think they had caveman “yo momma” jokes? And when push came to shove can you imagine a caveman hate crime? A Grand Master erectus complaining that habilis bring down eastern Africa property values...Cross burnings before fire had been invented...“Erectus only” drinking fountains...Habilis being forced to ride on the back of the brontosaurus…