How long have humans been on this planet?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution

Based on DNA evidence, homo sapien has been around for about 200,000 years.

it says 1million years is it 200,000 years

how can it be a fact with two different answers

Carbon dating is a lie! The earth is only six thousand years old! The internet isn’t in the bible so it must be the devils work! Repent ye sinners. I demand pancakes or you shall forever burn in the fiery depths of hell. The end is neigh!
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Oh, and for all you monkey people… two-hundred thousand years isn’t a bad estimate. At some point – perhaps one-hundred and fifty thousand years ago – the most recent evolutionary pieces fell into place. The human brain was finally equipped with its distinctive, first-ever ability to think symbolically and develop an evolving culture. Humans were liberated, in part, from Nature. And Nature was now at risk.

And@ oneye1: it’s not fact, simply a VERY educated guess. We are still figuring out the details, and unearthing more fossils everyday.

ok say 200,000 and we start with one couple and we will say a generation is 40years we know its longer but for you benefit we will go with 40 ok and 2.5 kids per family how many poeple would be alive today

I don’t think you are factoring in life expectancy, and the acceleration of population growth over time. Not everyone survived, prospered and lived happily ever after to put the little cave children in the cave SUV and drive them to cave soccer.

the math is the same we live longer now than even 100years ago

your grammar confuses me, can you please restate that?

the math is the same

which math? There are countless variables you must consider. It is not simply an equation of multiplication.

the 2.5figures in the variables

The math is invariably different…

If you can’t understand the answer, don’t ask the question.

well their would be more people than Adams and we would be standing on mountains of bones

Speaking as someone who works with the bones… We are.

not mountains everywhere

Ever heard of water? It does this cool thing called erosion. Sometimes the wind helps. It’s fascinating really. How about you put down your copy of “Of Panda’s and People” and take a science class. Maybe some basic algebra while you’re at it.

Now see here, I am usually very tolerant of ignorant people, but honestly, if you plan to ask a question please be prepared to hear the answers and reply with reason. It’s fine with me if you disagree with my beliefs, but if you create a rational rebuttal people will be much more willing to hear you out.

Other than to satisfy academic curiosity, this is one of those questions that doesn’t really NEED to be answered. As I have suggested in other threads on other topics, only humans are a species sufficiently arrogant, neurotic or narcissistic to worry about such things. I’d rather have the apparent preoccupations of an otter. Now THAT’s a lifestyle.

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First of all, its VERY important to know how long humans have been on this planet. unless you know true human history then you will allow your life and the lives of your children to be controlled through false, mind controlling education. While certain controlling religions teach that civilization isnt more than 5,000 years old please know that humans have been on this planet for millions of years. Artifacts found in South America depict humans walking next to dinosaurs, these artifacts are over 1,000,000 years old. the reason why history has been erased is bc its not WHITE history, historians would rather have you believe you came from monkeys then to admit the first advanced civilizations were not white. This isnt racial its just the truth, im as white as you can get but im sick of being lied to and im sick of ignorant ppl barking ignorant opinions.

….. uh…....

What?

You’re aware that the first advanced civilizations were NOT white? We all… know that….

Are you insane, or just disturbingly misinformed?

Humans and dinosaurs NEVER cohabitated. Ever.

Nice bitch slap delirium.

http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/15

ok try this site! Evolution is the biggest bullshit story since Christianity

Oh you poor dear. You believe that? You also use the word ‘homo’ as if it were some kind of insult?

I’ve done more research on this than you could possible imagine (though, from what i’ve seen, you Do have quite the imagination), young jelly. You’re the one looking at sources with no credentials. 90% of the ‘factual evidence’ on that site happen to be proven hoaxes. The rest are misinterpretations or evidence created to support their ‘facts’. For example… Edmontosaurus was NOT upright walking as they seem to think. The drawing was created to intentionally match the glyph. Blatant misinterpretation of the datum to fit their hypothesis. One of the other things they list is not only a known hoax, it was originally created by an art student in the name of irony and is now being used as ‘proof’.

Also, the site you list is a Christian site… Its rejecting saurians on the basis of biblical reality. If you believe that Christianity is BS, you’re using the wrong source.

it wasnt meant to be factual evidence, old woman. i looked that site up earlier just to give an example but obviously your an expert so maybe humans havent been around that long, maybe this is the only life flourishing planet in the entire universe and maybe the aids virus really came from africans having sex with monkeys? its doesnt matter wut humans looked like a million years ago or how they walked… we’ve still been here for a VERY LONG TIME. there were humans on pangea and how long did it take for the land mass to separate…? a little longer than 200,000yrs miss.

I don’t think this is the only planet with life… it would be statistically improbable for it to be.
We haven’t been here that long.
Do you actually have a point? Your grammar is so convoluted that I can’t tell.

lol grammar? ummm we’re online ma’am, these arent corporate emails. my point is, you dont have any evidence to the contrary, you just dont agree and you sound just like the imbeciles that told us we come from monkeys and just like the morons that thought our planet was flat. so youre telling me humans havent been on this planet more than 200,000 years? ok i dont care about dinosaurs, im just saying humans have been around for over a million years. LOL “convoluted”? just say tangled, i think your trying too hard.

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I do have evidence. I work with human remains, ancient and otherwise.

my apologies for ridiculing you earlier but I still believe humans have are older than we think. since you do work with human remains, i have a question… do you think the giant humanoid skeletons they supposedly found are a hoax?

Yes, absolutely. Bad photoshopping. Nothing more.

Is this question sill going? It was one of my favorites.

No matter where you go, there will always be angry children that want to stir things up. Honestly delirium, it’s no use. Our new little friend with “no television” seems to be without any other source of information as well.

@noTV morons that thought our planet was flat… I don’t know if you are old enough to remember when the fact (of the earth being a globe) had to be taken on trust by the simple (like me). My geography teacher said it, the editors of Phillips’ Atlas said it, so it must be true. Then the first photographs came back from outer space: my geography teacher was right. Without the math, the proofs made no sense. My point being that the scientists, for once, have been verified by ocular evidence. Until better evidence comes along, I will go with the current thinking, 4 million years from the coming of proto-humans, 100,000 years for homo sapiens.