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lionkingcmslSome idle thoughts popped into my head while messing around on the 'puter.
It has been said that the human "animal" has not really changed for a couple of millenia. We were just as smart then as we are now. It's just our knowledge of things has expanded since then. This appies if you believe in either of the two "dogmas": Creationism or Evolution.
That being said, one has to wonder if there was a "cave man" or woman that could do really astounding "photorealstic" art. If they did it, was it eroded over time, erased, or just not found?
Also, was that person frustrated in the knowledge that they could do better, but did not have the tools to do so?
This line of thinking brings me to one of the greatest minds, and artists, of all time, Leonardo da Vinci. I wonder what he could of done if he had today's tools for art and science. The same could be said for all the "Great Masters".
If you remember that Leonardo had designed workable airplanes, helicopters, automobiles in his time, and he did it in the late 15th and early 16th centuries!
The same could also be said for some of the other earlier scientists and musicians.
Were they frustrated in the knowledge that they could do more, but were limited by the techonology of their times? We may never know.
As I said, just some idle thoughts from this lion.
You wonder what my personal dogma is? I believe that both are true. God created everything, but not as we see things today. It is said in the Bible that a day to a man may be a thousand years to God, and a day to God may be a thousand years to man. We do not know what "time scale" God was using and whether or not he kept the same scale in place through out the 7 "days". So I hold that both are equally valid views on how everything came about. It is said that God created the animals before man, so why could he not have created the single cell plankton and let evolution take its course before starting a new family, or giving a certain mammalian species a "nudge" in a certain direction.
One thing if for sure, we will not know until the end.
It has been said that the universe in not wilder than we can imagine, it is wilder than we cannot imagine (or words to that effect)!
It has been said that the human "animal" has not really changed for a couple of millenia. We were just as smart then as we are now. It's just our knowledge of things has expanded since then. This appies if you believe in either of the two "dogmas": Creationism or Evolution.
That being said, one has to wonder if there was a "cave man" or woman that could do really astounding "photorealstic" art. If they did it, was it eroded over time, erased, or just not found?
Also, was that person frustrated in the knowledge that they could do better, but did not have the tools to do so?
This line of thinking brings me to one of the greatest minds, and artists, of all time, Leonardo da Vinci. I wonder what he could of done if he had today's tools for art and science. The same could be said for all the "Great Masters".
If you remember that Leonardo had designed workable airplanes, helicopters, automobiles in his time, and he did it in the late 15th and early 16th centuries!
The same could also be said for some of the other earlier scientists and musicians.
Were they frustrated in the knowledge that they could do more, but were limited by the techonology of their times? We may never know.
As I said, just some idle thoughts from this lion.
You wonder what my personal dogma is? I believe that both are true. God created everything, but not as we see things today. It is said in the Bible that a day to a man may be a thousand years to God, and a day to God may be a thousand years to man. We do not know what "time scale" God was using and whether or not he kept the same scale in place through out the 7 "days". So I hold that both are equally valid views on how everything came about. It is said that God created the animals before man, so why could he not have created the single cell plankton and let evolution take its course before starting a new family, or giving a certain mammalian species a "nudge" in a certain direction.
One thing if for sure, we will not know until the end.
It has been said that the universe in not wilder than we can imagine, it is wilder than we cannot imagine (or words to that effect)!
