On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:28:53 -0500, Philip <[log in to unmask]> wrote:



>
> No way to prove it of course, so maybe I'm wrong, but I find it  
> thouroughly
> unbelievable that we would have fire for half a million years before we  
> got
> around to tasting what it did to our food.>


Does bad things to meat. Makes eating nasty plants possible.

>
> Dean's question is a good one. Do we really believe that humans  
> controlled
> fire by 230,000 years ago but didn't widely adopt cooking until 100,000
> years later?


Eat raw for long enough (takes years) and then taste cooked meat. You  
would then believe that cooking meat began much more recently than 100,000  
years ago.
Just because we are so degenerate that we can't tell good from bad doesn't  
mean that our ancestors were the same.

William