Day, Wally wrote:
> Very nicely put Phil - fair and balanced.
> 
> I would also like to point out that as time goes by, everything seems
> to be getting pushed further and further back into antiquity.
> Especially the use of fire. First it was 50,000 years ago, Then over
> 100,000. Then 350,000. Then 750,000. Now, (and I have read the
> supporting evidence), a million and a half.

Nothing wrong with that, the wrongness is the assumption that fire = 
cooking.


> 
> Which brings up the next question. What is the likelihood that
> humans, and especially "modern" humans (of the last 150,00 or so
> years), would not have at least tested the cooking of various
> foodstuffs? Sorry, raw-foodists, the argument that cooking is
> "unnatural" just doesn't hold water (and this statement is coming
> from someone who prefers most of my food raw or barely heated above
> room temperature).


I bet they did try cooking, noted the results and being intelligent 
decided to never do that again.


William