Posted on 06/18/2006 7:59:34 AM PDT by tomzz
This little video was shown at the apologetics group at the McLean Bible Church last week and the effect on viewers was rather striking.
Lucy is the 40% more-or-less complete australopithicus skeleton which is commonly presented as a missing link of sorts, and the thought processes behind the manner in which reconstructions of lucy are presented indicates a mindset in which, at every juncture at which reality clashes with ideology, it is reality which simply gets tossed.
Lucy's actual remains did not included hands or feet and reconstructions are commonly presented with human or near-human hands and feet despite the fact that other skeletons of the same creature have hands and feet which are clearly those of an ape, with curved fingers for moving about in trees. Mary Leakey in fact had found clear tracks of human footprints in the same strata and location as Lucy's remains and the assumption is that at least one australopithicus MUST have had human feet.
Asked whether a better explanation would be that the tracks were simply produced by humans, Leakey and others replied that was impossible since the tracks were millions of years old.
The obvious explanation of course is that a human made the footprints and "Lucy" was simply that human's pet monkey.
The story actually gets better (much better) from there if you can believe that, with evolutionists claiming that a deer or other animal trampled "Lucy"'s hips and pelvis, breaking them into pieces, and that the pieces congealed by chances into the conformation of those of an ape, and deriving the true picture of Lucy's hips and pelvis by making a plaster cast, breaking it up with a saw, and then rearranging the pieces into a more human conformation.
For anybody willing to part with the twelve dollars, this little documentary offers an astonishing glimpse into the mindset of the evolution true believer.
David Menton earned a Ph.D. in cell biology from Brown University. He served as a biomedical research technician at Mayo Clinic and then as an associate professor of anatomy at Washington University School of Medicine (St Louis). For almost two decades he has been profiled in American Men and Women of Science—A Biographical Directory of Today’s Leaders in Physical, Biological and Related Sciences. Dr. Menton has lectured throughout the United States and Canada on the creation-evolution controversy.
"By contrast, even the nazis and communists knew better than to buy into their own idiotic propaganda on a wholesale basis."
Tom, you are the author of "Tyrannosaur Meat". Goob
"Fact: I proved that more educated people know Creation to be true."
Celmak, its time for your medicine now. Good Night Honey. Sweet Dreams.
"If not for the fact that you give liberals fodder for their "idiotic inbred conservatives" meme, it would be humorous."
Exactly. And idiots like this stick in the minds of swing voters and cause close elections to go bad. We need a dark closet to stuff him into till after election day.
You didn't know how religious those dems are, huh? :o)
You mis-state both the situation at hand and the use that mis-statement to paint with a broad brush.
"Fraud" (which I do not concede) in a single case is attacking a single data point.
By contrast, even the nazis and communists knew better than to buy into their own idiotic propaganda on a wholesale basis.
Goodwin's Law.
Is that recipe like hot cross buns?
I think this is the best that CRIDer "thinking" can do:
"CRIDer"
I will have to remember that one. Haven't seen it used before but I like it.
Godwins law doesn't apply on these threads. It understates the probabilities.
The biggest disappointment I have found on these threads is these type of posts always go right over their heads. OTOH, that disappointment is overridden by finding other enlightened souls like you. Their loss is our gain.
You too. Since e had responded to my post, I had presumed that he had posted the picture with verifying. Thank you!
Ok, I'm really good with the profound, but what the heck is "Hot Cross Buns". I was laughing, and then I realized, "What does that mean?"
LOL
I think they were biscuits or the like popular in old England.
When you reach the point where you can no longer laugh (especially at yourself) you had better give up ;o)
I'm back, after a little vacation...
If you look at the poll I posted, and if you were capable of understanding what it says (which you are apparently not), you would see that the numbers of YEC creationist believers decline with increasing education. Also, increasing income correlates with decreasing belief in YEC.
The conclusion one should reach, if one were capable of understanding logic, is that un-educated, minimum wage folks are more apt to believe in creation than in those with education and higher paying jobs.
Of course, the point that others made about the whole thing not being a popularity contest is a very good one.
""and replaced them, so that we have a very tough, resistant, very lipid-rich material"
Sounds like she's saying it's basically fat.
"Sounds like she's saying it's basically fat."
Hmm, I guess she was a Big Boned Girl.
"Hmm, I guess she was a Big Boned Girl."
LOL
That's the best one I've heard all day.
Please don't confuse me with Celmak. I'm begging.
I didn't. Just thought you might be interested in my reply (after all these days). Sorry to have given you that impression - trust me, I would NEVER, EVER confuse you two!
Whew! (Wiping sweat.) Thanks for the include.
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