Jiang argues Darwinian evolution does not explain human intellect or imagination and that even asking this question is discouraged.
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Jiang argues Darwinian evolution does not explain human intellect or imagination and that even asking this question is discouraged.
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Human religious ritual, Pacific exploration, and cave painting are treated as evidence that humans are not adequately explained as utilitarian primates.
He says evolution broadly works for animals but becomes problematic for human beings because it does not explain the sharp ape-to-human difference.
Jiang presents Ice Age cold and resource scarcity as the condition that pushed humans out of Africa and across the world.
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"All right. So this is very strange how science is supposed to be a field of rigorous debate, rigorous science. Right? But the evidence..."
"We're just a monkey. And what do monkeys do? Monkeys like to have sex. Monkeys like to eat. Monkeys like to fart. That's all..."
"Aniflame, okay? Bisons and food. But then how do you explain these people, okay? These are people who went to populate the Pacific Islands,..."
"they hunting why are they using so much resources and time in building these uh ritual sites okay homo sapiens did cave paintings and..."
"So our current system of understanding the universe simply does not work. And the problem is, well, why are there multiple Big Bangs? The..."
"So there are a lot of guesses, okay? And the case that I will present to you today is my own personal interpretation based..."
"And that forced us to seek food and resources elsewhere. And so that drove our movement into Europe, which then drove our movement into..."
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