[mysterio]

Maybe they were never joined...and this is further proof.

No, it isn't.

Amazing how these estimates keep getting pushed further and further back in time.

Not really. That's the beauty of science : the more you research something, the more you find out, and the more accurate your data becomes.

[ECM]

Maybe they were never joined...and this is further proof.

No, it isn't.

"It isn't", because...?

[RobbyS]

Well, a bad side of Science is the tendency to leap to conclusions. Darwin et al. leapt to conclusions that cannot now be supported, just like the rest of us do. The bad thing was that Darwinists shouted down all opposition as obscurantism, even variant theories of evolution. Religious zealots get bad press in scientific circles, but science has its zealots as well.