Fossil Ape May Be Ancestor of All Apes - Report

Science - Reuters ^ | Thu Nov 18, 2004 | Maggie Fox

[Pharmboy]

My boss is part Catalan. I think I see a resemblance. But seriously folks, this could be an important find.

[TitansAFC]

Artist's reconstruction of fossil ape:

[Pharmboy]

ping...

[curiosity]

Fascinating. Thanks for posting.

Now prepare for fundie flames.

[Pharmboy]

El Chimp...

[kingattax]

can we get a DNA sample from helen thomas ?

[atomicpossum]

[Pharmboy]

Well, it does seem like they filled in a lot of lines on precious little data...

[SirChas]

"This probably is very close to the last common ancestor of great apes and humans," said Salvador Moya-Sola of the Miguel Crusafont Institute of Paleontology in Barcelona, Spain, who led the study.

I thought this was...

[Shellback Chuck]

OOga, uhOOOhga, puuuga, Alley OOP!

[Strategerist]

By fossil standards that's actually quite a lot of the skeleton. Having a skull is the key.

[Elsie]

Flames?

[politicket]

It's all uh..uhh..UHHH...BULLS&#T!!

Excuse me...I had to sneeze

[Ptarmigan]

Interesting.

[SunkenCiv]

beaten by a small margin, but I'll add both to GGG and ping from the following topic:

Could Be Human-Ape Ancestor
The Centre Daily Times ^ | Thu, Nov. 18, 2004 | DIEDTRA HENDERSON -- Associated Press
Posted on 11/18/2004 3:41:57 PM PST by Willie Green
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1283336/posts

[Rakkasan1]

http://www.barbneal.com/wav/uncat/iwishiha.wav

[searchandrecovery]

My boss is part Catalan. I think I see a resemblance.
Artist's reconstruction of fossil ape:
can we get a DNA sample from helen thomas ?
I thought this was...

Laughing so hard that I may now have internal injuries - thanks.

[Rakkasan1]

http://www.barbneal.com/wav/allinfam/athiest.wav

[curiosity]

I'm pleasantly surprised.

[Iam1ru1-2]

It appears that ancient bones have not lost their ability to make monkeys out of those who try to decipher what the flesh on them looked like. This is probably one of those people who had a major physical deformity, and the "scientist" are trying to make us believe it's a precursor to all apes. They will never learn; but why do they continue to try this evasive "missing" link between species? Because they don't want to have to face the consequences when they find out (read - come to their senses) that there IS NO MISSING LINKS BETWEEN SPECIES, and therefore, all animals were created by a "highly intellegent being" (their way of admittting that there is a God) that must have created all life. BUT they don't want to believe that because then they will have to be accountable to that "Creator" who, according to Scripture demands complete obedience to Him, his Commandments, statutes, laws, and covenants, and that's something they will never allow themselves to do, so, they continue to look for that "impossible dream" so that they don't have to even think about the possibility of "intelligent design".