Oldest primate fossil rewrites evolutionary break in human lineage

ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility) ^ | June 6, 2013 | Kirstin Colvin

[EveningStar]

The study of the world’s oldest early primate skeleton has brought light to a pivotal event in primate and human evolution: that of the branch split that led to monkeys, apes and humans (anthropoids) on one side, and living tarsiers on the other. The fossil, that was unearthed from an ancient lake bed in central China’s Hubei Province, represents a previously unknown genus and species named Archicebus Achilles. The results of the research were published on 6 June 2013 in Nature. Oldest primate fossil rewrites evolutionary break in human lineage

The fossil, which is 55 million years old and dates from the early Eocene Epoch, was excavated in two separate parts from sedimentary rock strata deposited in an ancient lake.

[BroJoeK]

BrandtMichaels: "There is much more contradictory and conflicting evidence found against evolution in the last 150 years - you just refuse to read any of it with an open mind is all.
This is especially true regarding ‘junk’ DNA and what is treated as science but still based upon assumptions."

Sorry, but it turns out that whenever you research these alleged "flaws" and "holes" in evolution theory, it's all just religiously motivated nonsense.

Since you mention no specifics beyond alleged "junk DNA", I can report that while original estimates were 98% of human DNA was non-coding "junk", today it's suspected that perhaps 80% of the "junk" does perform serious, though as yet largely unknown, functions.

We should also note that other more "primitive" species have as little as 2% "junk" DNA.

So the bottom line we must always remember begins with that wonderful quote from Isaac Newton, circa 1730:

"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me"

Today we know more than people of Newton's day, but at the same time the "great ocean of truth" has expanded ever faster than we can begin to understand.

So, as Haldane wrote in 1927:

"Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

Seems to me that G*d has provided much grist for our scientists mills.

;-)