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.
Why do you want to be a darwinite. I thought you were happy being an arrogant smart-ass cretionist?
That's it...I'm convinced....there is no God. All is sense data to be percived felt and measured. I now throw off all moral restraints...time to kill or be killed, rape or be raped. There is no shame in murder or guilt in being a traitor. There is no right or wrong, no real lies, only points of view. There is no hope, I am nothing more than just an advanced monkey. There is no real love, just the release of endorphins with every ejaculate. Why protect the children; even pedophilia must have an evolutionary function. Time to change parties and become like Bill Clinton, the ultimate in predatory Darwinism.
There is no hope in the Eternal, no divine spark that elevates the human mind above the muck of the universal matter energy matrix. And like a bear, I too can take and enjoy a dump in the woods!
Yes its time for a Judeo Christian Jonestown...the western world is at its cultural nadir and the Islamic barbarians are at the gates. But I don't care, I'll just take my pleasure where I can and live well until the end. Soooooo.....
Pass the Cyanide kool-aid boys and make mine the green lemon lime!
you are suspect...parasitical mad hornet
You're iron-y as well?
You don't think turning molecules into mind isn't magic?
It certainly has no scientific foundation
If I was a darwinite, I would never have to think.
Just let the molecules bump and ignore obvious problems
while calling names. Just like high school!
Whose "we"? You and your hive?
Perhaps if you had done some thinking in high school, you would not be a victim of the creationists' propaganda ...
The full quotes have already been posted and explain that.
What convinced you of this? Then number of "Christians" on this board committing false witness in the name of God?
You sound like Baghdad Bob
Are you really Dennett himself trying to cover his ass pretending to be a worm seeking bug?
"Anyway, I'm assuming the obvious, that there were apes before there were humans. Therefore, we must have evolved from one of these ape species, correct?"
No. Apes are humans so we couldn't evolve from them. Evolution is not a straight line, it is a tree or bush. But we came from a common ancestor, all the great apes and diverged along different branches, some of them ending in extinction.
Here is a list of relatively close ancestors of apes and humans:
Starting some 80 million years ago:
Tree shrews, Lemurs Lorises Tarsiers Cebids Old World Monkeys
Gibbons Oranutan Gorilla Human Chimps
Chimps branched off after Humans started evolving from the common ancestor of humans and chimps about 7.7 million years ago. Chimps branched about 3.4 million years ago.
Anthropoids branced from ancestral primates about 70 million years ago and apes as a whole about 23 million years ago.
What you have to understand about genetics is that mutations and other content changes in genetic material build up whether expressed in the phenotype or not. Thus, there are many areas of genetic material that can be activated by various type of switch type genes. So if life has been evolving for a billion years, we have a billion years of genetic variations throught the whole system.
LOL. He does sort of overeact doesn't he?
Who says Christians can concentrate?
No don't go to the source and look, he says,
Dennett thinks people who don't agree with him
should be re-educated. Darwin was loved by the Nazis!
The superior aryan race is the fittest and all else should serve or die.
We like concentrate, but only the lemon-lime
The Bible says what people interpret it to mean. If you are going by what the English, you have several degrees of separation from the real meaning.
You can't blame Darwin for the Nazi's misuse of his work any more than you can blame God for the creationists misuse of His.
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