Posted on 03/07/2005 3:19:42 PM PST by Truth666
A joint Ethiopian-US team of palaeontologists announced on Saturday they had discovered the world's oldest biped skeleton to be unearthed so far, dating it to between 3.8 and four million years old.
"This is the world's oldest biped," Bruce Latimer, director of the natural history museum in Cleveland, Ohio, told a news conference in the Ethiopian capital, adding that "it will revolutionise the way we see human evolution".
The bones were found three weeks ago in Ethiopia's Afar region, at a site some 60 kilometres from Hadar where Lucy, one of the first hominids, was discovered in 1974. Researchers at the site in northeast Ethiopia have in all unearthed 12 hominid fossils, of which parts of one skeleton were discovered.
...what do you think of the name calling intolerant darwin zealots who want to put christians in zoos and teach their children atheism?
So, you refuse to retract these statements and instead stand behind them?
I follow the evidence...not a gaggle of government funded establishment religion biology professors who pretend to believe the impossible. I stand for real science, not bought and paid for science.
And in the course of "discussions", there was no honest attempt to document these "lies", other than by telling lies.
I'm just trying to guage where you stand in the debate. Do you support lying to make the anti-science case or no?
God's Creation's is pretty cool.
I'm not big on the designer thing though.
Thank you mayor. I recognized the dennett doctrine when I saw it. "We will raise your children." Kind of like Hillary's village.
How about you just answer the question? I have come with humility and recognition that I am no subject matter expert.
So perhaps I must repeat myself yet again: While I don't doubt for a second that God created the universe, I don't preclude the possibility that evolution is the means God chose do advance life on earth.
If you have such an intimate working knowledge of evolution and "how it really works", it shouldn't be hard for you to give me fairly succinct answers to the questions I raised. Yet all I get from you and others is a refusal to answer me in the form of condescension and insults about how confused my statements are.
To know is to define. If it is that difficult for you to lay it out fairly simply in a way that even a moron like me can understand, then can you be sure that I am the one who is confused?
Anti-evolutionism is a multi-billion dollar business. You're still not picking a side.
This reminds of Philip Johnson's point; if the materialist/naturalists believe their brains are just moleclules in motion...their thoughts are mindless.
They are also often attracted to something dead because they want to eat it.
True, animals are not able to reflect on death and non-existence the way we do. But they know enough of death to fear it and avoid it when they "smell" death. Such unpleasant feelings (fear, terror, anxiety) by definition cannot be present in paradise.
I know nothing of this "gaggle" so I can't pretend to enter the debate about their merits and motivations. BUT...
Unless you're talking about an independently wealthy scientist funding everything with his own money, isn't all science "bought and paid for"?
Why do I have to pick a side? I want a coherent worldview of my own. Not someone else's dogma
Are you unaware of the discrimination, derision and destruction vented upon the vilified independent thinkers on this issue. The Constitution forbad establishment of religion...but we have one in the form of old fashioned darwinism-atheism.
There was a time not too long ago when Freepers were happy to have the state of Utah in the Bush column.
Agreed.
So what is your world view? Inquiring minds want to know.
...and that makes me wonder if the darwinites have retreated from the theory that started this thread yet..
Are you still posting to a freeper too dumb to spell his own name?
Actually this thread started with a poorly written news release and a claim that has yet to be substantiated in any scientific way.
It's obvious that you're in the anti-evolutionist camp from your posts. C'mon. Give it up now. Where do you stand on this controversy? ;)
I wish I was an arrogant smart-ass darwinite who knew how to spell other peoples names better than they do.
I could have her e-mail some stuff to you. ;)
I'm not anti-evolution. I just don't believe it can do magic. And...here's something to jump on; I get younger earther all the time
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