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SecularFrummy,
You wrote: “First of all we consider 3000 years ago a long time ago. 1 million years is kind of incomprehensible.”
Large numbers are not incomprehensible. We might not be able to imagine living that long in practical terms but numbers are easy and in numbers 1 million is that difficult to deal with. Finally when discussing Neo-Darwinian evolution what counts is generations not years (1 year for fruit flies equals at least 1,300 years for humans).
“Second of all 2 million years ago according to evolutionists would not be were the common ancestor of humans and modern great apes would be. That would be more like 7 million years ago. 2 million years ago would be basically human just more similar to the common ancestor then we are.”
Anatomically (as opposed to cognitively) modern humans are estimated to have evolved 200,000 years ago. The earliest species within the genus Homo are estimated at 2.3 million years. That gives you a little more than 2.1 million years to get from ape (pre-homo) to human.
Chimps and humans are estimated to have had a common ancestor 4-6 million years ago, but that doesn’t mean that after chimps broke off the human ancestor was anything more than an ape.