Cave-dwellers

The crawlers of Descent supposedly evolved from human beings who ventured into caves a long long time ago, and decided to stay there. (another pic--I think this is a production photo)
As I've mentioned before, they remind me of vampires (like the ones you see in Blade, or the ancient ones from the Buffyverse) or Remans from Star Trek Nemesis, or perhaps zombies in an advanced state of decay.

(Remans after all are Romulans who lived on the dark side of Remus and are sensitive to light, evolved, etc.)

Why should we regard living in cases as one, if not the primitive stage of living for human beings, rather than something temporary during an emergency or a stage of decay or even early camping. The wild and crazy imaginations of those with an ideological axe to grind... it's the same when they put forth stories about the ancestors of man living in trees, and so on.

iirc, Chesterton in The Everlasting Man makes a similar point, re-interpreting the evidence and coming to different conclusions, as well as reminding us of how ignorant we are of the past.

If Adam and Eve were given infused knowledge, would it have been taken away as the result of their sin? I doubt it--however this gift was probably not given to their descendants, and so they would have to pass on what they know to their children. It should not be surprising that the knowledge being handed down successive generations would diminish. How advanced were their tools? (And should we expect any traces of their existence? )

Without our power of imagination, the dogma of scientists would not gain as much acceptance as it has... hence, the power of narrative over reasoning. (One major and basic example is that of the notion of 'space'.) Another is the identification DNA as the formal cause of living things. While there may be a correlation between a set of genes with certain effects, mechanisms are rarely supplied, and the whole causal picture is usually incomplete. The uneducated are left with the understanding that a change in DNA is a sufficient cause unto itself, while in reality it may only be one condition.

Given the nonsense that is shown in TV and movies that trickles down, it shouldn't be surprising that many call for abstinence. Perhaps nothing kills learning more than established opinion rooted in pride or stubborness.