William wrote:
> 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.

This premise doesn't really support much of anything, except that people 
can get so used to one way of eating that they prefer it.  Plenty of 
people eat cooked meat so routinely that they prefer it, and don't care 
for raw.  This preference doesn't prove that eating raw meat is 
"degenerate."  If those who eat raw meat for a long time find that 
cooked meat tastes bad, that doesn't show anything either.  Some other 
kind of evidence is needed to show when people started cooking meat.

"The first reasonably good evidence of cooking is in the form of burned 
bones at the Chinese site of Zhoukoudian dating sometime between 550,000 
and 300,000 years ago.  All of these sites in Africa and Asia with 
uncertain fire use indications presumably would have been occupied by 
/Homo erectus"  /(http://anthro.palomar.edu/homo/homo_3.htm)/

/Todd Moody
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