Curly: No, I'm the found Link.
Six Days Ping
Posted on 03/25/2006 8:18:09 PM PST by Alter Kaker
Cool! A missing link!
Hysterical! lol!
It's not missing now!
alas...
Skull discovery could fill origins gap
Yahoo (Reuters) | Fri Mar 24, 11:02 AM ET
Posted on 03/24/2006 2:47:46 PM EST by The_Victor
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Homo erectus Bump
If humans were our ancestors, how come there's still humans around?
Heh Heh. You said "Homo".
Heh Heh. You said "erectus".
My younger son always wants to know why I'm still around...
Curly: No, I'm the found Link.
Six Days Ping
Skull found in two pieces.
And how many miles apart?
It's really amazing how uniquely negative the creationist ideology is. You really have nothing to contribute to the discussion. No ideas of your own --- you attack scientists, fine, but what have you yourselves accomplished? Where exactly in Ethipia are the creationist scholars toiling? Why can't you ever come up with anything more substantive than soundbites to advance your ideology?
THIS is NOT a sound bite.
Dr. Johanson gave a lecture at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, Nov. 20, 1986, on Lucy and why he thinks she is our ancestor. (snip) After the lecture he opened the meeting for questions. (snip)
Roy Holt asked: "How far away from Lucy did you find the knee?" (The knee bones were actually discovered about a year earlier than the rest of Lucy).
Dr. Johanson answered (reluctantly) about 200 feet lower (!) and two to three kilometers away (about 1.5 miles!).
Continuing, Holt asked, "Then why are you sure it belonged to Lucy?"
Dr. Johanson: "Anatomical similarity."
(Bears and dogs have anatomical similarities).
Not only is it a soundbite, but it feeds right back to what I was saying: because it's a worthless, factually inaccurate soundbite that lazily and dishonestly attacks evolution without constructing any positive ideas of its own. I ask you again: where exactly in Ethiopia are the creationist scholars doing their groundbreaking work? Where are they publishing? What have they found?
Dr. Johanson gave a lecture at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, Nov. 20, 1986, on Lucy and why he thinks she is our ancestor. (snip) After the lecture he opened the meeting for questions. (snip) Roy Holt asked: "How far away from Lucy did you find the knee?" (The knee bones were actually discovered about a year earlier than the rest of Lucy). Dr. Johanson answered (reluctantly) about 200 feet lower (!) and two to three kilometers away (about 1.5 miles!). Continuing, Holt asked, "Then why are you sure it belonged to Lucy?" Dr. Johanson: "Anatomical similarity."
Not only is this patently false, it's absurd and dishonest. If you bothered to read Johanson's book (sitting on my shelf) or any of the journal articles, you'd know that Johanson went in great detail to describe the location of Lucy as well as the location of the A. afarensis knee and of other remains. At no point did he claim that the A. afarensis knee he found came from the same individual. Where do you guys come up with this nonsense? Do you really believe it?
If I'm not mistaken, Johanson has since admitted "Lucy" was likely a male chimp. I have no problem with it being an extinct species, but if the discoverer admitted it, we should stop using it a distinct species.
I'm confident you're mistaken, but I'd be curious to see a cite for that, if you have one. Lucy's textbook A. afarensis.
(Saw this on a couple of the MSM websites - looks like potentially big news - up to you if it's pingworthy)
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