Did Humans Exist on Earth Millions of Years Ago?

No... aliens did

They did, even if you use dog years they did.  I saw a Far Side cartoon once and it showed a caveman and a T Rex together, if you need proof. And there are at least a couple of reviewers here who could tell first hand stories about the old days.

Looking at things mathematically it seems that the humans are no accident. The notion that humans exist at all is preposterous. Same can be said about anything. Then we have experience of being and yes, I use that word again, experiencing the so called reality, despite the fact that this does not make any sense. So, if we do accept that earth exists, humans exist, we have to look into space time. If there is one occurance in space and time it means that they have to be more than one. Or none. Even if we accept that God created just one Earth and one time, taking into account the infinite time, which we do know does exist -- by extrapolation -- if we used earth years we could stretch back or forth billions or even trillions or quadrillions of years, then life had to occur. By that reasoning we know that humans have existed always somewhere in the Universe. If we just talk about earth, then we have take into consideration the fact, that even if we had very advanced civilization le... Read more

I saw Fred and Barney riding a dinosaur on the Flintstones so the answer must be yes.

As far as "Enduring unanswered questions", this one is terrible. It's been answered by several groups of folks, some of them religious and some of them correct.

What kind of question is that? http://www.macroevolution.net/human-evolution-chart.html

I don't think so. But let me climb into my time machine, just to confirm.

This is a question that was answered over thirty years ago, despite the fact that Bible thumping droolers don't accept the empiricism that has demonstrated this. Our earliest human ancestors date back to at least 1.7 million years ago, or so, as well established by the fossil record. Of course, there's some mystified weirdos out there who adamently insist that the Earth was created something like 6,000 years ago. This is problematic, as there's cave paintings in Europe, one of the last areas of the planet to be inhabitated, that are considerably older than that.

Anyone who doubts this...needs to meet my ex-mother-in-law.

The numbers can be traced back perfectly inline with the time of Noah. The current population is over 6 1/2 billion. In 1900 the population was only 1 1/2 billion, in 1800 it was only 978 million, in 1000 A.D. it was only 310 million. You see the trend here? It goes back perfectly to a handful of people after the "Great Flood". In 500 B.C. the population was just at 100 million. When you trace the years from the time of Creation to the Flood it is only a few thousand years and not millions, but I am going by the Bible. It goes perfect back to Noah so I have no reason to believe the time prior doesn't do the same.

I saw an interesting science program recently.  It was in the dawn of man, and the terrestrial conditions had reduced the humans to a remnant of maybe a couple thousand in Africa.  Then as conditions bettered, the race expanded, and there you are.  Unless society does something about developing a system to prevent or mitigate the next asteroid strike, humanity, in geological terms, has only a short term of existence on the planet.  The prognosis is poor.  These bodies do strike the earth.

Bring on the Funny votes!  No, as the earth was non-existent Millions of Years ago!

Who is to say which is right? Science and religion have both come up with reasonable explainations. Science agrees with the evidence at this point, until more comes in and the theory has to adjust for it. Faith doesn't care about evidence. Maybe both are right, especially if you accept the idea (like I do), that God isn't bound by time like our squishy human brains are, and he doesn't fit in a nice neat box. If you can tell me how long seven days are to God, then you might be able to prove scientifically whether God exists using the theory of evolution as a guide, and that isn't gonna happen in my lifetime. Until then, I can accept the seeming contradictions as our tiny human minds trying to wrap around an idea that is beyond us. :)

Not an issue for those who read books.  Some say two hundred thousand but there are estimates at one hundred thou.  .  .guess you could split the difference. . .

Of course they did if that's what you want to believe. We already have all made up our minds regarding the issue of evolution. Some are pro, some are con, but we are all divided in two bands. There is no middle ground, no neutrality. So, the answer is yes to one band and no to the other. I belong to the "other".

According to Michael Cremo, yes.  But of course, any archaeological finds that run contrary to what modern evolutionary science wants to believe is quickly dismissed or ignored without being given a fair amount of attention.http://www.forbiddenarcheology.com/http://www.mcremo.com/

If you mean Homo Sapiens, clearly not. If you mean beings having or showing those positive aspects of nature and character regarded as distinguishing humans from other animals, I'm not sure they exist at all yet but it's one heck of a concept!

In the way, yes they did. Eventually they evolved into the cell phone talking, cheese burger eating, regular human beings you see outside. Watch Discovery or TLC, they have stuff about this almost any giving week.

I'm afraid that whether humans (or at least humanoids) existed on Earth millions of years ago has already been answered in the affirmative. As another comment noted, our humanoid ancestors where smaller; had a much shorter life span, little discrepancy in size between males and females, and a smaller brain cavity; and ate an approximately 85% vegetarian diet. One of the most interesting theories dealing with missing links deals with the possibility of so called sea apes in which our ancestors left the plains for a more aquatic life near the oceans. Proponents of this theory point to the slight webbed human fingers and how easily human babies are born in water.

This is a stupid question. If you believe in science then you know that human beings evolved into our present state about 20,000 years ago, if not less. If you believe in God you know that the Earth is only 6,000 years old, mind you this was not said in the Bible, but made up by a monk in the middle ages, but why pick hairs? So no, nothing resembling a human existed millions of years ago.

If you call a four foot tall ape covered in coarse hair with one half the cranial capacity and a penchant for eating raw meat a human, then yes. Also, I encourage people who scoff at carbon dating to do some elementary reading before tossing it out a baseless. Also, it is fine to believe the Earth is 6,000 years old and that the Bible is the absolute truth, that is your belief, but as someone who extensively studied ancient civilizations and humans, I reserve the right to think that's nonsense.

How else to explain Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ronald Reagan, and Pope John Paul II.

I don't believe so. And even if there was, there's absolutely no way to prove something like that. And I don't care what kind of carbon-testing bullcrap any evolutionist gets off on.

Only four stars because technically they weren't humans then. Carbon-testing bullcrap is only good to about 50,000 ybp (years before present)--though it has gotten better in recent years, and accuracy improves with larger sample size. Potassium-argon is the method of choice for dating strata containing pre-human remains.

Yes. Actually the first proto-humans surfaced two million years ago. They little resembled modern-day humanity. They were likely much shorter, hairier, and sort of hunched over more. They also ate raw meat and never wore clothes, but they were our original ancestors, the first examples of the species Homo Sapiens. They also lived to an average age of 23 before disease, injury, or wild animals finally killed them.