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Posted on 08/29/2016 1:04:19 PM PDT by C19fan
New evidence suggests that the famous fossilised human ancestor dubbed "Lucy" by scientists died falling from a great height - probably out of a tree. CT scans have shown injuries to her bones similar to those suffered by modern humans in similar falls. The 3.2 million-year-old hominin was found on a treed flood plain, making a branch her most likely final perch. It bolsters the view that her species - Australopithecus afarensis - spent at least some of its life in the trees.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
It was just a coinky-dink that Doanld Johnson just happened to make this discovery just days before his funding was scheduled to stop...
Seems the bones would have been gnawed on regardless if she was being pursued at the time by a predator. Could have happened at anytime after she had died, regardless of how she died. Must be a reason why her bones apparently weren’t chewed on by some animal at some point in time.
May be your early ancestor; not mine!
Mine were in Scotland forever and ever!
But before she died, it was funny as hell watching her try to gat chocolate on all those conveyor belt candies.
By the way... what on Earth was she doing up in a tree?
Lucy and Ricky, sittin’ in a tree...
You said it.
Good point!
Must you emulate Sir William of Ockham?
Evolution is not even a theory: It is a patchwork quilt of unverifiable hypotheses. (Micro-evolution - for lack of a better term - is, on some level, valid, but macro-evolution is an unsubstantiated delusion.)
A theory can be tested, replicated, and can consistently produce verifiable extrapolations.
They cannot replicate it, and when they encounter something contrary to its prediction, they simply sew a new patch into the quilt.
As a science major, I heard the biology professor say over and over, “Given time and chance, we are confident that...” [fill in the blank with the latest anomaly that so-called evolution cannot explain, but they trust will someday explain]. Those words in quotes are, verbatim, the ones he used throughout all discussions of evolution.
Those are the words of faith, not science.
The special treatment that evolution has gotten paved the way for other, more recent, perversions of hard science that appeal to humanist, anti-Christian folks in the vaunted sciences, especially so-called global cooling... I mean, global warming... I mean, climate change.
How about she died in a tree..then the body fell to the ground
Is the person who came up with idea getting paid for this brilliance ?
The ironic thing is that believers in evolution have to have more faith than those who believe in God. Most of the time, they just turn out to be God haters.
Ummmmm. Maybe finding food? I don't think farming was invented yet.
“Hey, Grunk, is that woman stuck in that tree? Should we help her get down?”
“Nah. In all your years, have you ever seen a woman’s skeleton in a tree?”
“Yeah, I guess you’re right.”
A million years later, they were still right.
Apparently she was chatting with Ricky: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3464066/posts?page=57#57
LOL!
I grew up watching Lucy and loved her. But I’d rather fall out of tree getting food then Ricky!!!! ... Maybe.
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