On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:37:03 -0500, Philip <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Oy, not that again.
IIRC, the argument was that fire implies cooking. My take was that well  
trained (by their mothers) cooking-obsessed "scientists" couldn't imagine  
that fire was not necessarily used for cooking.

> Well, this may help you feel better about cooking: cooking has been  
> fairly
> commonly used by humans (not dogs obviously, :-) ) going back at least
> 300,000 years, according to scientists.