amen, sister
Posted on 04/14/2013 9:54:40 AM PDT by GodAndCountryFirst
A collection of prehuman skeletons has sparked intrigue and debate in the scientific community, eliciting calls to redraw — or at least reconsider — mankind's evolutionary map.
On Friday, an international team of researchers will publish their latest findings on Australopithecus sediba — a uniquely puzzling prehuman species that lived nearly 2 million years ago. Led by Lee Berger, a paleoanthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, the research reveals new insights about the way Au. sediba walked, chewed, and moved, lending support to Berger's claim that the species is a direct human ancestor.
Experts have long identified Homo habilis as the most likely ancestor to Homo erectus — the precursor to modern man — but Berger’s research points to an alternate lineage. Au. sediba predated Homo habilis by nearly 100,000 years, according to some estimates, and its "mosaic" blend of ape and human qualities suggests a different evolution from human ancestors (known as hominins) to our own Homo genus.
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I didn’t say that religion and science were mutually exclusive, I said they were different.
Yes, exactly. That’s why the OP’s remarks are invalid: he’s suggesting that science fails because it doesn’t operate like religion. I’m saying they are two different things.
Just read Dr. Berlinksi’s book: “The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Scientific Pretensions”. The witty mathematician tears apart the “thinking” of the evolutionary Marxists who are irrational.
I love that book.
It’s not so much an attack on evolution as it is an attack on how secular scientists are changing the rules of science to fit their secularism.
Not another rewrite!!!?? The ink isn’t dry on the last rewrite of a rewrite of a.......
Wait, are you saying that you got the Skeletons of Michael Moore, Helen Thomas, Robert Byrd and other LIBERALS??
How did you remove the skeletons from the live people??
Science and the scientific method operate under very strict rules. This is, of course a necessary construct in order to advance the understanding of virtually everything.
The scientific method is bound to “materialism, reductionism etc”, it is bound to what can be observed, tested and repeated”. The interpretations of those discoveries have implications and should fit within the construct of the whole of a particular theory. When the interpretations upset the whole or current narrative of the theory, something needs to give.
Creationists point out the inconsistencies and repeated re-interpretations as a failure of the theory. And evolutionists will tell you that this is how science works.
Objectively, there’s something wrong.
New evidence should support the theory, not make it more complicated. So much more complicated that they are willing to invoke the “super-natural” or “meta-physics” in order to resolve or save the theory.
amen, sister
LOL
Some very good friends of mine were driving across a CO mountain pass in winter that has a very dangerous stretch with lots of avalanches. Usually lose at least one car a year, and nobody has ever survived being swept off the road into the canyon.
They stopped and prayed before driving across the stretch. An avalanche hit and swept them off the road. They survived and eventually climbed out.
They believed their survival was a miracle provided by God in response to their prayers.
I pointed out that if they hadn’t stopped to pray, they would have been past the dangerous stretch before the avalanche hit.
My comment was not appreciated.
LOL. That reminds me of the story about the construction worker who falls several stories from a scaffold. He breaks most of the bones in his body, but miraculously lives. He wakes up in traction in the hospitial, and the doctor tells him, “You’re a lucky man”.
He says, “I don’t feel lucky”.
Basically, the Leftists are lying-—their premises are all “assumptions” but they treat it as “truth” which it is not-—just a “theory”.
At. Least Christians admit when they use “faith”.
He does tear apart a lot of the “myth” of evolution.
Berlinski, is not to be played with.
“How many physiological changes are necessary to move a “cow like” animal to a whale ?”
What’s the number?
50, maybe 100,000 changes ?
Let’s weigh that against randomness and generational populations.
The math does not work.
Well if you are a christian you know where you came from.
I read an interesting story once.
Some whalers went ashore and stayed with a group of Inuit (Eskimos) up North way back in the 1860s.
One day, Sarquaq, who was the best hunter and nominal village leader, killed a walrus.
As he began handing out portions to his neighbors, the whalers commented, using an interpreter, that Sarquaq was a very kind and generous man.
When it was translated, he laughed heartily and said, “You do not understand. By whips, one makes dogs, and by GIFTS, one makes slaves.”
Sarquaq saw his distribution of meat as a means to keep himself in a position of power and influence, not as charity.
Some things don’t change.
Omg! Science is based upon evidence and can change in light of new evidence! Obviously an inferior system to never changing what you think no matter how much evidence accumulates!
LOL! Exactly!
Some things don’t change.
Well, except that the meat belonged to Sarquaq. Today's power and influence comes from redistributing what is OURS!
Good observation.
Their age dating math leaves a lot to be explained as well.
101 Evidences for a Young Age of the Earth...And the Universe
http://creation.com/age-of-the-earth
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