Posted on 08/16/2012 9:41:05 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
Paging Nicholas Wade. Hes the New York Times science writer who worships at the altar of Darwinism.
Two years ago, he reported that biologists, led by Svante Paabo of Germanys Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, had determined that Neanderthals mated with modern humans.
That scientific finding provided a convenient explanation for what happened to humanitys supposed ancestor: We interbred with them until they disappeared.
Now comes a new study, reported this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that the finding reported by Wade, were wrong. There was no mating, no hybridization, between Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens (us).
The studys authors, Andrea Manica and Anders Eriksson, scientists with the Evolutionary Ecology Group at Britains Cambridge University, say that modern humans have no Neanderthal DNA.
Whatever DNA modern humans and Neanderthals share in common came not from interbreeding, the scientists concluded, but from a common, unknown ancestor (a chimpanzee, maybe?).
This is a stunning scientific turnabout in the prevailing wisdom about human evolution. Yet Wade has yet to weigh in on what it all means.
Are we never to know what happened to Neanderthals? Shall we never discover the missing link, proving that man evolved from monkey?
Could the proponents of intelligent design actually be right, that man did not begin existence as a simple, one-cell organism in this planets primordial ooze, but as the fully-formed creation of Almighty God?
Of course, Wade is not going to concede anything to those of us who dare to question his god, Darwin.
He sneers, To many biologists and others (meaning enlightened journalists like Wade himself), it is a source of amazement and embarrassment that many Americans repudiate Darwins theory and that some even espouse counter-theories like creationism or intelligent design.
How, he asks, can such willful ignorance thrive in todays seas of knowledge?
Wades attack on evolution doubters, like yours truly, is nothing new for the New York Times.
All the way back in 1906, the Gray Lady, as the Times is affectionately known in some quarters, published an editorial supporting a decision by the Bronx Zoo to put an African pygmy named Ota Benga on display in its Monkey House a putative live exhibit of human evolution..
We do not quite understand all the emotion which others are expressing in the matter, the Times harrumphed. It is absurd to make moan over the imagined humiliation and degradation Benga is suffering. The pygmies are very low in the human scale.
The Times was wrong on human evolution then. And its pro-Darwin reporting is no less wrong today.
Sorry, but there isn’t and you only need a very basic education in the scientific method to know that.
Sad for you that you don’t have one. No go on and play nice with the other children.
You shoore taut me. Now back on your knees like all Alinsky's other whores.
Now go play nice with the other children, and don't call them whores. Next thing you know you will be spitting and biting. Sorry that you feel so mad about losing the argument and being an ignorant loser - but there is no need for such language and such childish conduct.
LMFAO! troll.
When you get the shit slapped outta you it's bad form to then call foul.
Wrong again. It was about gravity and the very nature of science. Ever get tired of being an ignorant child? What a loser troll you are. Grow up some and maybe you can actually discuss science. Out of your depths I can see why you would rather just trade insults.
To which you ended the post with what??? A mathematical formula.
Do you ever get tired of being wrong? *Yawn* You're right, I've only got derision left for Mr. 'math isn't science'. But, best laugh I've had all day. Too bad it was at the expense of your credibilty. I'm tired of you, run along now. I've got to call NASA and inform them they sent people to the moon on fairy dust and unicorn farts. Of course, well never really know for sure because there's no proof. BWWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHA!
I also used the English language. That doesn’t make the English language science. Galileo used a timer, that doesn’t make a stopwatch science.
Yes, I’m too dumb to understand. Can you please point me to a credible paper on observed speciation? While you’re at it guide me to a source that has proof of a transitional fossil (not one that shows minor variation amoungst a species, one that is caught in the transition between species). Surely millions exist but pick the best one. What is your favorite theory about how life sprung from non-life? Why do you think the theory of punctuated equilibrium came about when there’s mountains of “evidence” for evolution.
Thanks in advance for helping the less fortunate.
p.s. The Galileo example concerns knowledge gained through observation and/or experimentation so it qualifies as science. An example of the extrapolation I was talking about was taking a single tooth (that turned out to be from an extinct pig) and turning it into an ape-man complete with family and tools. Poor Nebraska man, the cartoon looked so convincing. Anyway, that’s not science, that’s science fiction.
I originally read this on the CNN site. He sounded like Bill Nye the Eugenics Guy. He’s pretty condescending to suggest that evolution is observable. Have they found a transitional fossil yet? A missing link? Can we see any creature caught in the intermediate stage between completely different species?
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