On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:41:54 -0400, JohnH
wrote:

BTW, I let you off easy. Science may attempt to prove facts. It has
not done so. Science has yet to show when, where, or how man came to
be, let alone with an ability to reason.

The science of evolution deals with all living organisms not just man.
It is interesting to note that even with all of our advanced science
no one has yet synthetically produced even the simplest one cell
living organism. That may change but it just shows how difficult it
is.

It is pretty clear that mankind has evolved over the years, up from
the relatively recent cro-magnons and others to the present day. Where
the cro-magnons and other early human forms came from may never be
precisely known since it happened over hundreds of thousands of years.

It may turn out that the ability to reason is not limited to humans.
Our real unique specialty (in addition to complex reasoning) seems to
be the ability to manipulate symbols, record history, learn from it,
and pass it on to the next generation.