[Senator Bedfellow]

Ping.

[tallhappy]

The new fossil find consists mainly of jawbone fragments, upper and lower teeth, and a thigh bone.

It's a difficult field.

[Westlander]

Helen Thomas has been located ?

[Alter Kaker]

And still the creationist troglodytes insist that not one single "transitional" fossil has been located. Earth to creationists: you're crazy.

[Rodney King]

[Abathar]

They just found the remains of Pippin after he fell off his horse chasing after a drunken Merry, geez....

[Fruit of the Spirit]

Ping me when they find the missing link for intelligence!

[Jotmo]

The new fossil find consists mainly of jawbone fragments, upper and lower teeth, and a thigh bone.

That's all? They think they can reconstruct the entire animal for that, and declare that this is the missing link?

Unbelievable.

[theFIRMbss]

[manwiththehands]

Not today. I've had enough pro-evolution tap dancing and BS to last me until next Christmas.

[Sic Luceat Lux]

Thank you for this very interesting post Senator and thanks also to Coyoteman for your illustration. bttt

[Bobalu]

[KMJames]

...What the new discovery does is very nicely fill this gap...

Well, it has to go somewhere, why not fill one of those pesky gaps?

[jennyp]

Some might say this post belongs in the "pearls before swine" department, but I consider it more "hope springs eternal"...

Which of the following are "just an old ape" and which are "just an old human"? Try it, it's fun!

Fossil hominid skulls. Some of the figures have been modified for ease of comparison
(only left-right mirroring or removal of a jawbone). [CLICK HERE] for larger photo.
(Images © 2000 Smithsonian Institution.)

• (A) Pan troglodytes, chimpanzee, modern
  
• (B) Australopithecus africanus, STS 5, 2.6 My
  
• (C) Australopithecus africanus, STS 71, 2.5 My
  
• (D) Homo habilis, KNM-ER 1813, 1.9 My
  
• (E) Homo habilis, OH24, 1.8 My
  
• (F) Homo rudolfensis, KNM-ER 1470, 1.8 My
  
• (G) Homo erectus, Dmanisi cranium D2700, 1.75 My
  
• (H) Homo ergaster (early H. erectus), KNM-ER 3733, 1.75 My
  
• (I) Homo heidelbergensis, "Rhodesia man", 300,000 - 125,000 y
  
• (J) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, La Ferrassie 1, 70,000 y
  
• (K) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, La Chappelle-aux-Saints, 60,000 y
  
• (L) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, Le Moustier, 45,000 y
  
• (M) Homo sapiens sapiens, Cro-Magnon I, 30,000 y
  
• (N) Homo sapiens sapiens, modern

We know that A) is a modern chimpanzee - which is similar to the early chimpanzees that (evolutionists at least think) were our common ancestors - and N) is a modern human. Everyone agrees that M) was a modern human as well. Your challenge is to fill in these blanks:

Fossil	Just an ape	Ape-like transitional	Human-like transitional	Just a human	Not related at all to apes or humans
B	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]
C	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]
D	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]
E	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]
F	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]
G	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]
H	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]
I	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]
J	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]
K	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]
L	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]	[_]

The Responses So Far:

Person	A Pan troglodytes (modern chimp)	B, C Australopithecus africanus	D Homo habilis	E Homo habilis	F Homo rudolfensis	G Homo erectus	H Homo ergaster	I Homo heidelbergensis	J, K Homo sapiens neanderthalensis	L, M Homo sapiens sapiens (Cro-Magnon, modern human)
Mainstream scientists	ape	ape-like trans	ape-like, human-like trans	ape-like, human-like trans	ape-like, human-like trans	human-like trans	human-like trans	human-like trans	human-like trans, human	human
Bowden, Malcolm	ape		human		human		human			human
editor-surveyor	ape	ape	ape	ape	ape	ape	ape	ape	human	human
Gish, Duane (1979)	ape		human		human		human			human
Gish, Duane (1985)	ape		ape		human		human			human
Mehlert, A. W.	ape		ape		human		human			human
Menton, David	ape		human		human		human			human
Michael_Michaelangelo	ape	ape	ape	ape	ape	ape	ape	ape	human	human
MississippiMan	ape							ape		human
Taylor, Paul	ape		human		human		human			human

[bert]

For those of you creo nonbelievers, I've seen Lucy. She exists.

Has any one else?

[ScubieNuc]

Pheww, Boy I'm glad that's settled. </sarcasm>

[JCEccles]

Well, if they say so, it must be so.

Who needs science when bald conjecture will snow the peasants just as easily and effectively?

[razorbak]

Check out artist's renditions of this "link." It's an ape, people. The only things that apes produce are other apes.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Tiny scraps of paper consisting of these letters were recently found in an attic in the Congo:


V

lim

12

p


Our brilliant anthropologists have concluded that these are the remains of the original draft of 'War and Peace'. Billions of possibilities, but they are certain that this is the right guess. Why what other possible conclusion could be made from such a voluminous batch of evidence? And of course anyone who might dare be the least bit skeptical is just a superstitous ignorant foolish bigot in denial.

[Jorge]

I really hope they can find the missing link before they reach hell.....