What was the stature and abilities of Adam and early man | Mufti Abu Layth

do you think Adam was 90 hands too of course he wasn't Adam Ali Salaam would have been the same height as an average man I mean give or take whatever that is but he would have been exactly the same and he would not have been the first kind of I mean he he would have probably my understanding being the father of the cognitive revolution amongst Homo sapiens but he would not have been the first kind of vital human so to speak but he would have been if we're considering Homo

erectus and Homo you know Neanderthals and heidelbergensis and we're considering all of these Homo habilis and all of these different hominins he wasn't the first of the hominin so to speak but and he wouldn't have been the first of the Homo sapiens either in my understanding but the first of the cognitive revolution when they when Homo sapiens their thinking suddenly changed about 70,000 years ago approximate and they just became something else you know they became involved in in art in discovery you know they just became a

unique species all of a sudden I think that at the head of that was Adam aleihsalaam and that's what the ability when Allah said he taught him at the the constructs that's what these things were that he could construct his own knowledge and keep building he could build knowledge independently that's the unique thing you know I've seen some people translate it as I'm God poor Adam the nouns that

just sounds so silly sounds so ridiculous and God to Adam the nouns that just sounds like so childish like okay today's nouns are a born but a cat cat rhymes with bat I'm sure my sorrows for is doing things like that that's that's belittling Adam aleihsalaam come on for God's sake if he's gonna be the father of the cognitive revolution he can't be like but

cat mad god somebody had translated and God for either a llama a dermal asthma so he taught Adam the nouns and you're thinking what about verbs what about prepositions he's like I going if you want to take that as a noun that's not even a noun really active participle but so that's what it didn't mean look you have to remember people even other hominins most likely may have and would have probably had language but to a

lower level than us so it's very likely that Neanderthals had language but maybe just not on our level that's all that we the difference is that we can construct in-depth abstract knowledge like we can construct knowledge from knowledge like you take things like building blocks you put them together you construct new knowledge you can we have induction deduction things like this these things are very very human I think as in very Homo Sapien because if you think about it look at a look at a monkey today like

a chimpanzee and even some you know you get things like bonobos and other monkeys they teach them certain basic kind of language skills through by through you know computers today basic basic skills and they teach them you know where they can identify letters of the alphabet and they can point to the right letters and they can do stuff like this and arguably some gorillas or something have even tried to spell out certain things at some time there's been research on this but so if that's you know the ape family like from monkeys and things like this bonobos and then what do you think of

hominins that looked very much like like Neanderthals they would have had a higher level than the monkeys definitely so if they say today a monkey possesses that the kind of I don't know like the brain of like equivalent I'm just saying in intelligence probably like the a two-year-old child so you can imagine that a Neanderthals would have at least what being like six seven year olds at least like that kind of capacity they would have had so yeah