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	<title>Comments on: Did Humans Make Tools, or Did Tools Make Humans?</title>
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		<title>By: Pat</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/08/26/did-humans-make-tools-or-did-tools-make-humans/#comment-3192</link>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To say that mankind is little more than monkeys with tools would not be so far off base. How well those tools are used is generally the measure of excellence in mankind, along with the ability to create them, or improve them.

What the tools are used for determines the morality of humans, and whether they are used for progress, or destruction, used for all, or simply hoarded for self enrichment.

Mankind living without purpose reduces mankind to an extinguishable species because of, and in anticipation of the consequences that follow. Dignity can derive from few perceptions of excellence that follows that purpose like the tail mankind lost along the way. It is meant to be the invisible appendage it is.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To say that mankind is little more than monkeys with tools would not be so far off base. How well those tools are used is generally the measure of excellence in mankind, along with the ability to create them, or improve them.</p>
<p>What the tools are used for determines the morality of humans, and whether they are used for progress, or destruction, used for all, or simply hoarded for self enrichment.</p>
<p>Mankind living without purpose reduces mankind to an extinguishable species because of, and in anticipation of the consequences that follow. Dignity can derive from few perceptions of excellence that follows that purpose like the tail mankind lost along the way. It is meant to be the invisible appendage it is.</p>
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		<title>By: Olybob</title>
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		<dc:creator>Olybob</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thoought that Lamarckism died with Lamarck or maybe it&#039;s just now being passed along.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thoought that Lamarckism died with Lamarck or maybe it&#8217;s just now being passed along.</p>
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		<title>By: Muoi Jethro</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/08/26/did-humans-make-tools-or-did-tools-make-humans/#comment-3190</link>
		<dc:creator>Muoi Jethro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 10:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Regards for share your incredibly beneficial informations. Your world-wide-web is great.I am impressed by the information and facts that you&#039;ve on this weblog. It shows how nicely you realize this topic. Bookmarked this unique page, will arrive back again for a lot more. You, my buddy, awesome! I found just the info I currently looked all over the place and just could not uncover. What a ideal internet site. Such as this internet site your web page is one of my new most-loved.I similar to this data shown and it has offered me some sort of idea to have good results for some reason, so maintain up the good perform!</description>
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		<title>By: Pat</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/08/26/did-humans-make-tools-or-did-tools-make-humans/#comment-3189</link>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A long time fan of &quot;make it once, and make it right&quot; club, it doesn&#039;t take superior knowledge to know that if mankind spins its wheels redoing what could have been done well in the first place, mankind would make more progress, not less; in theory, it would provide more prosperity, not less. Obviously, such a progressive political position would ordinarily be a popular one for humans, as well as a profitable one.

If mankind is dumb enough to get in its own way to recycle profits for cash flow rather than to commit himself to progress, why should mankind have any faith in mankind, much less the flawed God who may have devised such a plan.

If flaws occurred in manufacturing of rockets at the rate they occur in products to be sold, including autos that rely upon safety and efficiency, mankind would not yet be to the moon, nor would it be safe to go there.

Human responsibility for each other ordinarily requires a plan, and that plan must be all inclusive, or it becomes a discriminatory plan, meant to serve the few, not the many. But in safety and efficiency, all men are equal in that those traits are generally not divisible for haves and have nots. Logical consequence suggests that mankind rises together or spins itself into oblivion and extinction. That is is a choice of humans, and governments alike is obvious.

That the choice for success through progress and prosperity hasn&#039;t been yet made by humans is one of the most determinate aspects of their frailty, and their flaw, whether developed by evolution, or by God.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A long time fan of &#8220;make it once, and make it right&#8221; club, it doesn&#8217;t take superior knowledge to know that if mankind spins its wheels redoing what could have been done well in the first place, mankind would make more progress, not less; in theory, it would provide more prosperity, not less. Obviously, such a progressive political position would ordinarily be a popular one for humans, as well as a profitable one.</p>
<p>If mankind is dumb enough to get in its own way to recycle profits for cash flow rather than to commit himself to progress, why should mankind have any faith in mankind, much less the flawed God who may have devised such a plan.</p>
<p>If flaws occurred in manufacturing of rockets at the rate they occur in products to be sold, including autos that rely upon safety and efficiency, mankind would not yet be to the moon, nor would it be safe to go there.</p>
<p>Human responsibility for each other ordinarily requires a plan, and that plan must be all inclusive, or it becomes a discriminatory plan, meant to serve the few, not the many. But in safety and efficiency, all men are equal in that those traits are generally not divisible for haves and have nots. Logical consequence suggests that mankind rises together or spins itself into oblivion and extinction. That is is a choice of humans, and governments alike is obvious.</p>
<p>That the choice for success through progress and prosperity hasn&#8217;t been yet made by humans is one of the most determinate aspects of their frailty, and their flaw, whether developed by evolution, or by God.</p>
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		<title>By: Defending The World&#8217;s Most Dangerous Idea &#124; Science Not Fiction &#124; Discover Magazine</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/08/26/did-humans-make-tools-or-did-tools-make-humans/#comment-3188</link>
		<dc:creator>Defending The World&#8217;s Most Dangerous Idea &#124; Science Not Fiction &#124; Discover Magazine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] friend, you already are. But I’m happy to let you decide how far to run with it. Transhumanists are not the Borg, folks. [...] </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] friend, you already are. But I’m happy to let you decide how far to run with it. Transhumanists are not the Borg, folks. [...] </p>
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		<title>By: Interesting Reading #584 &#8211; The Blogs at HowStuffWorks</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/08/26/did-humans-make-tools-or-did-tools-make-humans/#comment-3187</link>
		<dc:creator>Interesting Reading #584 &#8211; The Blogs at HowStuffWorks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Did Humans Make Tools, or Did Tools Make Humans? &#8211; &#8220;Is our species, Homo sapiens sapiens, the first cyborg species? Gizmodo/New Scientist has a fascinating article up about how humans evolved as a result of technology. Timothy Taylor, an anthropologist and archaeologist at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom, submits a theory I am very inclined to believe: that humans evolved from tool-using proto-human primates. This evolutionary path resulted in a “survival of the weakest,” which Taylor explains&#8230;&#8221; [...] </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Did Humans Make Tools, or Did Tools Make Humans? &#8211; &#8220;Is our species, Homo sapiens sapiens, the first cyborg species? Gizmodo/New Scientist has a fascinating article up about how humans evolved as a result of technology. Timothy Taylor, an anthropologist and archaeologist at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom, submits a theory I am very inclined to believe: that humans evolved from tool-using proto-human primates. This evolutionary path resulted in a “survival of the weakest,” which Taylor explains&#8230;&#8221; [...] </p>
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		<title>By: Kyle Munkittrick</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/08/26/did-humans-make-tools-or-did-tools-make-humans/#comment-3186</link>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Munkittrick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@MartyM &amp; @SpaceManSpiff: Thank you for proving internet comment threads can contain a reasoned debate. I solute you!

@Booperkit &amp; Brian Too: Thanks! If I get you thinking, I&#039;ve succeeded.

also: HI REDDIT - SEND ME YOUR THOUGHTS</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@MartyM &amp; @SpaceManSpiff: Thank you for proving internet comment threads can contain a reasoned debate. I solute you!</p>
<p>@Booperkit &amp; Brian Too: Thanks! If I get you thinking, I&#8217;ve succeeded.</p>
<p>also: HI REDDIT &#8211; SEND ME YOUR THOUGHTS</p>
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		<title>By: Brian Too</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/08/26/did-humans-make-tools-or-did-tools-make-humans/#comment-3185</link>
		<dc:creator>Brian Too</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve long thought that humanity was going to take control of our evolution.  As we gain knowledge of how we are constructed, assembled, and what possibilities exist for us, our technology will become the driving factors of our evolution.  Not the existence of predators, scarcity of food and other resources, environment, and so forth (externalities).

This article makes me think that, far from being a future possibility, technological based evolution is already happening.  In fact it&#039;s ancient and far predates the Industrial Revolution, the Enlightenment, and all of science.  Thought provoking indeed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve long thought that humanity was going to take control of our evolution.  As we gain knowledge of how we are constructed, assembled, and what possibilities exist for us, our technology will become the driving factors of our evolution.  Not the existence of predators, scarcity of food and other resources, environment, and so forth (externalities).</p>
<p>This article makes me think that, far from being a future possibility, technological based evolution is already happening.  In fact it&#8217;s ancient and far predates the Industrial Revolution, the Enlightenment, and all of science.  Thought provoking indeed.</p>
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		<title>By: Booperkit</title>
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		<dc:creator>Booperkit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s a fair point that this article may be lacking evidence, and others may have suggested these things before, but it&#039;s still a well written article. Some of the commenters above really demonstrate why we need articles like this. I&#039;m not a scientist, but a highly educated professional, in other words I&#039;m not stupid, but I&#039;m also a stay at home parent juggling several things even as I read and write at times like these. Short, thought-provoking articles are a great stimuli - I don&#039;t swallow everything word for word but it&#039;s better than reading Richard Dawkins biased boring drivel (sorry if you don&#039;t agree with me there but the God Delusion is the only book I actually threw on a bonfire). Some of the commenters above miss the point and get lost down the rabbit hole of their own pretentiousness - sounding so boring and getting lost in a rambling of conflicting scientific theory. It&#039;s just a perspective and a thought-provoking one at that. I liked the read and it has been tweeted and retweeted often so obviously so do others. Thanks for writing it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s a fair point that this article may be lacking evidence, and others may have suggested these things before, but it&#8217;s still a well written article. Some of the commenters above really demonstrate why we need articles like this. I&#8217;m not a scientist, but a highly educated professional, in other words I&#8217;m not stupid, but I&#8217;m also a stay at home parent juggling several things even as I read and write at times like these. Short, thought-provoking articles are a great stimuli &#8211; I don&#8217;t swallow everything word for word but it&#8217;s better than reading Richard Dawkins biased boring drivel (sorry if you don&#8217;t agree with me there but the God Delusion is the only book I actually threw on a bonfire). Some of the commenters above miss the point and get lost down the rabbit hole of their own pretentiousness &#8211; sounding so boring and getting lost in a rambling of conflicting scientific theory. It&#8217;s just a perspective and a thought-provoking one at that. I liked the read and it has been tweeted and retweeted often so obviously so do others. Thanks for writing it.</p>
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		<title>By: acekard 2i</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/08/26/did-humans-make-tools-or-did-tools-make-humans/#comment-3183</link>
		<dc:creator>acekard 2i</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Grat post,i will recommend it to my friends.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Grat post,i will recommend it to my friends.</p>
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