evolutionsists.... California Man?

Question

my kid is watching the film California Man
she is 6 and just thrown a host of questions to me ... as usual
so she asked me to ask my friends on here

where there any dinosaurs when cavemen were around ?
where did the cavemen come from ?
are we the same as cavemen or did they die out ?

I am sure there will be more later ... the film has just started lol
easy answers for me to relay to her
heeellpp lol

Scotland here

when I was at school ... we didnt learn about all this
but I do know the basics of evolution
all I am asking for is help simplifying it for her

and ermm yes I know California man is make believe duh lol
but it is what sparked off her curiosity

Answer 1

Ok... I'll give it a try...

Dinosaurs... if you took a bucket and filled it with water... the amount of time the dinosaurs were here would fill the bucket. The amount of time homosapiens have lived would be one drop of water in the bucket. We had primate ancestors that lived at the same time as the dinosaurs. This is how I explained it to my daughters... I also drew a simple stick-man family tree to show how evolution worked.

Humans evolved from primates, our DNA is still 99 percent alike. Many early humans were not cave-dwellers, but some were.

The previous forms of our species have died out, such as neanderthal. They were probably unable to adapt to changing enviroments.

Answer 2

Kent Hovind thinks films like California Man and The Flinstones are documentaries.

Really! There are people who seriously believe that dinosaurs and man co-existed!

LOL!

They'll give a whole bunch of Bible twaddle as justification, because these same space-cadets believe that the Bible is LITERALLY cover-to-cover true. That's right. The Tower of Babel, Noah's ark, talking snakes, all true.

They believe the dinosaurs disappeared in the flood, or after the flood (otherwise Noah did a bad job by forgetting them) and the cavemen ate them all - or something, its too insane and makes my head bleed whenever I try and follow kent Hovind's "logic"

But yeah, as others have said, dinos died out millions of years ago. Homo Sapiens (that's us) has been around 150 thousand-odd years. In the bad old days we didn't know much, fire was the latest thing on the block, and which end of a pointed stick to hold was confusing, but we've come a long way since then.

Answer 3

My first question is what is California Man?

No, there were no dinosaurs when cavemen were around. They were separated in time by millions of years.

Cavemen came from earlier pre-human primates. Lucy is the famous one that was recently dug up.

Cavemen were some of our ancestors, but we are not the same. They were smaller, had lower brows, smaller brains, had more body hair, and did not walk as consistently upright as we do today. If they had any language at all, it was very rudimentary.

The easy answers are available in science books for children. Let me see if I can find a good reference for you. *Goes poking through sources* OK, I was looking at the "Junior Skeptic" section of Skeptic magazine. There are some books advertised, but basically, try the link below.

Answer 4

Hi Pangel,

I think I can help with this.

1.No, based on the scientific evidence we have so far, dinosaurs had already died out before cavemen came along.

2. The theory is that humans originated in Ethiopia.

3. We are not the same as the Neanderthal who definitely did die out, but DNA evidence has proven that the Cro-Magnon man is the same animal as we modern humans. So yes, we are the same as one type of "caveman".

Answer 5

Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. The first humans (who did not live in caves until much later) evolved from a common ancestor we share with apes only about 7-8 million years ago.

There have been many species of human in the last 7 million years and for most of that time there was more than one species living at the same time. The species we belong to (Homo sapiens) evolved about 130,000 - 200,000 years ago.

All the species looked more-or-less the same - generally shorter than us but more hairy and walking upright with large heads and brains and hands with opposable thumbs that we use for gripping things.

The last remaining "other" human species, Neanderthal Man, died out around 30,000 years ago leaving us as the sole remaining species of human.

Answer 6

In the short and simple version;

Most of the dinosaurs were extinct millions of years before the first human. The survivors are birds. The first humans evolved from primitive mammals. We have evolved from the Cro-Magnon "cave man" and are still very similar to them.

Answer 7

I dont mean to be rude ..

but those are questions in which you should have learned in maybe 4th grade

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but to answer your questions .. No .. humans and dinos never existed together. I dont know how long after the dinos humans came about ..but it was millions of years. The dinos were around for 150 million years. Humans have only been around for 1 .. maybe 2 million depending on the source.

No .. we are not the same as *cave men* Since the cave men.. there have been maybe 7 different species of humans. All species eventaully died out until there was just 1.
Humans have been the same for the last 30 thousand years. It was this time when our voice boxes developed into what it is today.


do some research on wikipedia.com

Answer 8

Dinosaurs died out tens of millions of years before anything close to a human ever appeared on the world stage.

"Caveman" generally refers to Neanderthals or Cro-Magnons, which were species that developed from earlier hominids and developed into modern man.

This is only if you accept the consensus of opinion of every legitimate, responsible scientist in the world. Certain "religious" nuts will give you a different story in which man was formed from mud 6,000 years ago by a gaseous Vertebrate, who then yanked out one of his ribs to make woman. Dinosaurs, if they aren't just a satanic myth to deceive the faithless, must've coexisted with man, and (clearly!) Noah must've taken them on board the Ark. Just thought I'd provide both PsOV...lol.

Answer 9

Some Dinosaurs are still around and some Neanderthal Cave Men and a few of the Cro Magnons as well,

Answer 10

Cavemen were around about 65,000,000 years after the dinosaurs died out.